Anyone who wants to make it their business what I'm doing in my car
is a Communist and un-American--and a disgrace to society. Even if
my behavior affects you, yes EVEN if it affects you. You have to
draw the line somewhere--this "what you do affects me too" can only
go so far, as I'm about to illustrate.
Scientific data has shown time & time again that eating food is
just as much of a distraction as the phone is. So is fiddling with
your car stereo. If you don't believe that, ask the family of the
lady here whose grown daughter was killed while jogging because of
a van's driver distracted by--guess what--his car stereo. (Or would
that be VAN stereo?)
There was outrage, but I bet you dollars to D-SLRs that the outcry
would've been ten times that had the source of the driver's
distraction been a cellular phone. That's just bigotry plain and
simple. Me--I don't care if he was distracted by a phone, a radio,
or a jelly donut stuck to his face. He was DISTRACTED by his
BEHAVIOR, not by a phone or a damn donut.
But you NEEEEEVER hear of someone trying to ban eating in the car,
applying makeup, etc while driving. It's just cellular phones. This
is pure bigotry. If you don't believe me, notice all the "no cell
phones" signs in lobbies and restaurants. They never say anything
about any other source of noise, and I can tell you--I've heard
customers talking to each other IN THE FLESH who were just as noisy
as any cell phone chatter ever dared to be, but no one said a thing
to them--just the cell phone user.
That is bigotry plain and simple. If you support this, you're a bigot.
Besides that--since when is what I do in my car any of your
business EVEN IF IT AFFECTS YOU? That's right, EVEN IF IT AFFECTS
YOU, to some extent at some point, I say--it STILL isn't any of
your business.
Speaking of my illustration--I could make the same arguments as to
why, for instance, there should be spy cameras in every private
home with the government watching every thing you do. NOT the
public streets, I'm talking your private home. We're talking "The
Truman Show" for real.
Why? Because of all the high health insurance costs related to home
accidents. You DO realize that home accidents are one of THE major
causes of death & injuries, do you not? And to be sure when it
comes to other such Communist laws like helmet-laws for cyclists
and seat-belt usage laws--and add to that now making it your
business what I'm eating--medical costs have been used as the
justification for this Communist nonsense.
And if you are going to use medical expenses as justification for
butting your nose into my private business in what I'm doing in my
car, or what I'm eating, or whether or not I have a helmet on my
head while cycling--what's to stop the goverment from decreeing the
same thing with your home? To wit--since home accidents are so
prevalent and the applicable hospital costs so expensive, we're
going to spy on you and give you a $50 fine if you are caught, say,
putting in a new light bulb in your ceiling fan while standing on
an inverted 5-gallon bucket or wobbly bar-stool, when you are
required BY LAW to use an OSHA-approved safety ladder.
Even if you don't injure yourself, if you are spotted in your OWN
HOME doing such risky behavior, we're going to fine you--after all,
your foolishness is raising health care costs for everyone else.
Sorry folks, but if you're going to be a Communist and make it your
business what I'm doing in my car on such shallow specious
arguments, it is only consistent that we mandate spy cameras for
all private residences to make sure that fall you took wasn't
foolishness on your part from using a 5-gallon bucket as a
fake-stepladder.
And if you're going to say it's OK to regulate cellular phone usage
but not make-up usage or eating in the car, you're a bigot with a
special racist attitude of sorts towards cell phone users. It's
bigotry every bit as much as the redneck of the 50s calling
African-Americans that word that rhymes with "trigger."
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LRH
http://www.pbase.com/larrytucaz
