Honk if you support drivers’ rights
By Jerry Trammell
As a nation, we are beginning to come to our senses on the subject of individual rights. The time has come to revisit the laws governing cars and driving. Why should we have socialist-inspired speed limits, minimum age to drive, traffic signs and other paternalistic government laws? This is supposed to be a free country, not a sissy European country.
As responsible citizens, we should have the constitutional right to drive however we see fit. Let’s be honest, it’s not the car that causes the problem, it’s the driver.
Trammell is a patriot, veteran, gun owner and retired resident of Roanoke.
February 4, 2013 - 6:17 AM
Might makes right is the only effective, enduring “law” I’ve seen. Left alone, it works every time. As for “God” given rights, those are about as socialist as I’ve seen, ie the “Ten Commandments” etc. Look around: how effective have those been? Or did you mean God-given as in purely natural law, in which case, see above. (Might can be understood in many ways, of course.)
What a well done piece of satire. I loved it and hope we continue to hear more from Mr. Trammell.
He forgot to say that we’re going to need our cars when the tyranny starts. Something about a well-regulated fleet …
Oh good (I hope.) Clever enough to be taken seriously, fortunately or not. In which case, I’d like to hear more about them sissy Europeans.
“… constitutional right to drive…”
There is no constitutional right to drive, it is a privilege granted by the state.
However there is a constitutional right to have a gun, it is part of the Bill of Rights granted to all citizens.
There is a movement by the libs to ignore the Constitution as led by Obama when he ignored a federal court in LA during the BP oil spill and more recently, unlawfully appointing members to the NLRB as ruled by the DC court of appeals.
The NLRB is now a rouge board lacking a quorum with 3 illegal members but continuing to make illegal unconstitutional rulings. Not a problem for the libs!
Our Imperial Prez ignores the Constitution!
There is no constitutional right to a whole host of things we are not about to give up or forgo in this nation of “me”.
When you read true history you see that there has been a “movement” by many “to ignore the Constitution” whenever it impeded their mission since the ink was drying. Interpreting the Constitution is a challenge such that it has actual scholars and “think tanks” that do so full time for over 200 years now and a Constitutionally created “Supreme Court” who gets to decide what is and is not Constitutional; which sadly, settles little.
The Constitution is not as simple as many would like it and all too often the clarity only comes when an administration you do not like does something you do not like. Certainly calls for impeachment and unconstitutional behavior have been buzz words for decades, with little to no results to show for that selective outrage.
You say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe, that does not make me a criminal or Obama an “imperial” President.
@5 John R., a purposeful slip of the tongue when you say, “The NLRB is now a rouge board….”? Either way it’s funny.
The fact remains that the current NLRB has no legal standing and that is the law of the land. The Administration is ignoring a federal court once again. That constitutes a constitutional crisis that the SCOTUS will have to resolve and I suspect it will rule against Obama as over reaching his executive power .