"Brent P" > wrote in message
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> In article >, jaybird wrote:
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>> "Brent P" > wrote in message
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>>> In article >, jaybird wrote:
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>>>> That's not entirely true. Your state has to issue you a valid driver's
>>>> license to operate a vehicle on our (the citizen's) roadways. There
>>>> are
>>>> violations outlined in your state's laws where those privileges can be
>>>> suspended, cancelled, or revoked. It is true that we all have the
>>>> right
>>>> to
>>>> travel freely throughout the country, but driving a vehicle on public
>>>> roadways has restrictions outlined in the states' traffic codes.
>>>
>>> Travel freely? There is no such right anymore. Use public
>>> transportation,
>>> you may be subject to search. Don't like it, don't use it. You travel by
>>> air, same thing. Travel by rail, again, same deal. Travel by bicycle?
>>> codified that a bicyclist can be stoped by an officer at any time. Walk?
>>> well that court case was lost too, cops can demand papers. So what is
>>> this right to travel freely jaybird? Because as I look around, each mode
>>> of transportation has fallen. We have to give up our other rights to
>>> travel from place to place.
>>>
>>> You can sit there and parrot the party line of your masters and tell us
>>> the slippery slope isn't there, but each time we look around we are
>>> further down the slope.
>
>> That's strange. I've used every mode of transportation you described and
>> I've never had to endure any of that. I've had to put my bag on an xray
>> machine in airports, but that's all.
>
> Subject to search. Didn't say it happened everyday or to everyone.
> SUBJECT TO. And a bag being x-rayed is a form of search.
>
> Here again you show not only your ignorance of the english language but
> of big city life. When special people come to town, the police start
> excerising these powers. No special people, then not much is going to
> happen. However the security checkpoints in large buildings downtown are
> still in place regardless.

I was merely pointing out the paranoia factor once again. Security
checkpoints in large buildings downtown would make me feel safer.

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