Seat Belt Creep

[Dave Ridley]

There is another VT buckleup sign on Hwy 91 in Mass about 30 miles south of Brattleboro, 15 miles north of Springfield MA

Hey is there a way to find out where the checkpoints are going to be and/or when so we could stage a flash protest in front of the thing?

[GT]

Don't think a protest in Mass would gain much other than a bunch of tickets. That state caved to the Feds on seat belts a while ago. I think it's a primary law state now. So they don't need a reason to pull you over if you not buckled up. Gotta love Mass glad I don't live there anymore!

[John]

" . . . checkpoints . . . "?  What are we in a war-zone?
Hellow Police-State! 
We are here.

[GT]

I got stuck in one last year on a big holiday weekend in Ossipee, NH. Traffic was backed up for a good 2-3 miles. They had 3-4 State Troopers at an intersection on the main road. Every time the light turned red they would walk down the center of the road checking out seat belts. We were stuck in traffic for at least 45 minutes.

[Russell Kanning]

and people still think we are exaggerating when we call this a "police state"

[GT]

and people still think we are exaggerating when we call this a "police state"

This state is better than others, but we do seem to be loosing ground. I hear that there will be several "check-points" in my town later this summer as part of the national Click-it or Ticket campaing. There have been a couple of times the local "School Resource Officer" has been checking belts on kids at the local schools too.

[mvpel]

Don't think a protest in Mass would gain much other than a bunch of tickets. That state caved to the Feds on seat belts a while ago. I think it's a primary law state now. So they don't need a reason to pull you over if you not buckled up. Gotta love Mass glad I don't live there anymore!

I was thinking of fighting a ticket on the basis of a Supreme-Court-recognized right to refuse life-saving medical treatment and mandatory safety-minded measures established in the Cruzan case (497 US 261), the Jacobson case (197 US 11), the  Johnson Controls case (499 US 187), and the Echazabal case.

See http://www.aidoann.com/pickup-ticket/Authorities.PDF and http://www.aidoann.com/pickup-ticket/0928-dismiss.PDF

[Russell Kanning]

Sounds good to me....if you can refuse those sorts of things....why can't you refuse a passive safety belt?

[jgmaynard]

Don't laugh!? Don't you know that it's only the safety of......THE CHIIIIIIILDREN....that they are concerned about.? ?

That'$ right.....

The Kid$...
The little one$.....
The.......

off$hoot$, off$pring, po$terity, $cion$, $eed$, $pin-off$, de$cendant$, $pawn$, $prout$, $ucceeding generation$, $uccessor$, $tock, and all the re$t......?

JM

[Russell Kanning]

...are you using some sort of government keyboard?