[net.legal] Selective enforcemnet ...

shad@teldata.UUCP (05/18/84)

> From: ntt@dciem.UUCP
> Newsgroups: net.legal
> Subject: Re: selective enforcement, drivers licences, etc.
> Date: Mon, 14-May-84 16:32:33 PDT
>
> Yes you were, you admitted it yourself.  You were *driving a car on a
> public road*.  This is a privilege, for which you need a licence, and as
> far as I am concerned, the police are perfectly within their rights in
> stopping you to see if you have one...

I don't think we should allow socialist comments like this on a free net.
Please don't take that comment seriously particularly about censorship,
the free flow of ideas is good, *but* socialist thinking must be replied
to.

Of course if you *want* to exercise a privilege allowed to you by the
state, by all means get a license.

If, however, you are only exercising a God given right to move about
(this freedom pre-existing even the Magna Carta) you are not exercising
a state granted privilege.

Also note who owns the *public road*.

				Yours always in Freedom,

				   Warren N. Shadwick