Der Staat Blinks!
Background: On June 18th, I was pulled over and given a ticket for not waring my seat belt. I signed the ticket not guilty and sent it back in. About a month later, I got a letter telling me that it was being reviewed.
On Thursday, I get this.
Which tells me that they either
- Didn’t want to waste their time for $37 (in which case, why waste mine?)
- Didn’t want to risk giving me standing to challenge the law
Occam’s razor demands that the first be the case, but the conspiracy buff in me wants the second to be true so badly.
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to those that know me, or those who have read my ranting, that I am against laws that compel the use of personal safety equipment. I personally, in the face of all evidence, do not trust seat belts. I don’t like anything that touches my neck, and every seat belt, no matter how adjustable, always ends up too close to my throat for my liking.
Given that the arguments about how my not wearing a seat belt can impact third parties are specious at best, I don’t see how the state gets away with demanding that I wear a seat belt. It should not matter to the state whether or not I use a safety device. The state is not responsible for my well being, and I sorely wish it would stop trying to impose its demands upon me.