LETTER: Should the government dictate seat-belt rules for all?

Evidently I can’t decide for myself what is safe on the road, so government must do it for me with police stops and financial extortion for not wearing a seat belt.

I think big money and little politician got into bed for this deal, just like any john and any whore. But the public pays for it.

It was a perfect setup. The politician got his coffers stuffed with greenbacks for seat belt legislation, big insurance got to walk away from any claimant not wearing a seat belt while crashing, and local government got big bucks and a chance to  stroke the public for concern over our safety.

Laws are to keep us safe from one another, not safe from ourselves. This is accomplished with regulations for proper and effective use of automotive systems.

What does a seat belt do in operating a vehicle? What does it do for the other guy’s safety?

This oppression has grown financial roots deep into our culture and our judges either don’t  have the intellectual acumen to know bad law when they see it or lack the moral integrity to  face their peers as the man who ruined a good racket in nullifying it.

Any judge with an ounce of integrity would not allow a seat belt charge into his courtroom.

The problem for the victim charged with not being restrained is that the judge knows the average person has been brainwashed, lied to and coerced into submitting to our police overlords, insurers, parasitic pols and — trust me I’ll be fair to you — judges.

So the tyranny gets locked in as business as usual and total government control ticks up another notch.

You see, we’re from the government, we’re here to help you. —Tim S. Adams, Kalispell