I want to get arrested....

[Tim]

Yup, you heard me right, I want to get pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt.

First some back ground on me...
I always wear my seat belt
I smoke a pack a day

The reason why I want to get a ticket for driving without a seatbelt?
I want to fight it in court... but why you may ask... well follow along for a minute on my reasoning.

The law requires you to wear a seatbelt to prevent death and injury. The government wants to protect its citizens from death and injury or having to pay for someones elses injuries. A noble cause to be sure, a government that is looking out for me.... Well making it a law and forcing americans to wear a seatbelt has saves an average of 12,500 lives per year at best estimates. So if the government is sooo concerned with our safety, then why is it legal to smoke which kills 440,000 americans each year?
This will be the basis of my arguement in court. The fact that the government cannot tell me to wear a seatbelt to keep me safe then turn around and let the big tabacco companies continue to support them financially while keeping their products legal. Do you think that if it were not for the big tobacco lobbiests, that smoking would have been outlawed years ago????

Why is it that the government can tell me that I have to wear a seatbelt for my own protection but allows me to smoke as much as I want hurting those that are around me?

 

[Haus]

probally cause of the taxes the government gets on a pack of cigarettes. they really dont care as long as it makes or saves them money.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

You pretty much doomed your case from your explanation. Tobacco companies line the pockets of the people we put into power. It's no coincidence that only they can stop these CEOs without fear of monetary retaliation, but they won't do it because they're being paid.

But coming from my opinion being a smoker - I'm sick of those stupid faggot ass Truth ads. Nobody but myself forces me to light the cancer stick and inhale it. Tobacco companies put shit in there, don't they? who knows. The shit that comes out of tobacco smoke could be bi-products from the chemicals reacting when burnt which are present because they were used to help grow the plants from which cigarettes are made from.

 

[sharpies]

The tobacco companies have money - shitloads of it - & they lobby politicians or they completely sponsor them to ensure that they will be allowed to sell their products.

You won't win this one in court simply because the law states that you must wear a seat belt. You will make a point though - problem is because of the influence tobacco companies have over mainstream media, no one will hear it.

Hey good luck anyway.

I don't wear a seatbelt because they tell me to but because I want to.

Allan

 

[!]

the cop and the judge are gonna look at you and say we don't make the laws, we are hired to enforce them! needless to say you will get a ticket, lose time away from work and money out your pocket.

a better approach to this might be writing a letter to your congressman or woman, and or letter to the editor of your newspaper.

 

[hhayes]

yeah i'm not sure if the cigarette thing will work but good luck and i mean that!!

 

[JMilley]

hmmmm the government always seeked to make more money, and taxing the living shit out of tobacco products is a good way to make money. you are not getting anything out of it. you can CHOOSE not to smoke and you can also choose not wear a seatbelt. sure, you'll get a ticket, but that's another story. nobody is forcing you to do anything, there isn't such thing as an involuntary action, there are punishments. don't like the government? tough shit, isn't it?

 

[Haus]

i would hate to be a smoker and live in god damn New Jersey. there like 8 dollars a pack there. in pa there like 3 something. so NJ probally taxes 5 bux for a pack of smokes.

good enough reason to quit right there if i smoked and lived in jersey

 

[Veronica]

Re: RE: I want to get arrested....

the cop and the judge are gonna look at you and say we don't make the laws, we are hired to enforce them! needless to say you will get a ticket, lose time away from work and money out your pocket.

a better approach to this might be writing a letter to your congressman or woman, and or letter to the editor of your newspaper.

:agree

tim, dont you smoke?

 

[JadedSpades]

Why is it that the government can tell me that I have to wear a seatbelt for my own protection but allows me to smoke as much as I want hurting those that are around me?

Also, it puts the car companies in a better situation. If you died in a car accident without your seatbelt on, your family could sue the company. If it's illegal, they wouldn't really be able to do anything about it.