"Drivers pulled over on Travis County, Texas, roads this week could bepleasantly surprised to find out they'd been targeted for drivingwell.The Travis County Sheriff's Department and the Round Rock Expressminor-league baseball team announced a program to reward good driverswith free Express tickets.The team is joining with law enforcement on a "Drivers Safety Week" initiative."
Yeah right. If the Round Rock Express minor-league baseball team could actually SELL a ticket, they wouldn't be giving them away to the citizens of Travis County, no matter how well they drove.
And, I seriously doubt the motives of the Travis County Sheriff's Department. When I was driving around on a suspended license, I was the best damn driver on the road. The last thing I wanted to see was a squad car in my rear view mirror...I wouldn't have cared if the cop wanted to give me free tickets to Tahiti.
The cops know what I know...if the speed limit is 35, unlicensed driver's are going exactly 34.8 MPH. When I drive behind some nit wit going the speed limit on the highway, I KNOW he's got something to hide.
Personally, I don't care. But it must drive the cops INSANE to know that the guy obeying every single rule of the road is up to something, yet they don't have probable cause to pull them over. So, they came up with a neat little trick. Now they pull over the good drivers and hand them tickets to some third rate baseball game that no one wanted to see in the first place. Could we just watch the World Series and NOT be pulled over for driving so well?
All I expect from the cops when I drive well is to be left alone. Maybe a little wave or tip of the hat and then it would be nice if they went on their merry way. If I want tickets to a baseball game, I'll go to Ticketmaster.
When I went to the local animal shelter a few years ago and adopted an animal, they injected a little chip into my new pet that was full of information. I wondered how long it be before the government decided to inject us with those same little chips...most likely for the purpose of "protecting" us from some potential crime.
Then, in the state of Georgia, they began demanding fingerprints in order to receive a driver's license. That, too, was to protect us...this time from identity theft. Who knows what potential crime or fear that the government will use next to extrapolate a few more of our rights from us? Governments rarely take away rights in one fell swoop. They slowly and insidiously take them away one by one until we suddenly look up and ask, "How the heck did we lose all of the rights we used to have?"
Those who are supposed to protect us want more and more rights and to get them, they necessarily have to take them away from those whom they purport to protect. And then they tell us, "Well, if you have nothing to hide...you shouldn't have a problem giving up these rights." The rights that they seek to restrict were never made to protect criminals...they were made to protect those of us who had nothing to hide. Only a jack ass would go out of their way to grant all of these rights to criminals.
Yet,when we ask for them to respect out rights and when we refuse to submit to the restrictions, we're accused of having "something to hide".
I've even heard my fellow citizens putting forth that very same asinine assertion...making me wonder how many true morons there are walking around.
I used to hear the following statement often:
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
Well, I don't hear it much anymore. That patriotic mentality seems to have fallen by the wayside and has been replaced with divisiveness and partisanship. How did that happen? How did we go from a nation of people willing to lie down their lives for the rights of their neighbors to a nation of petty, name calling, relf righteous adversary's who wouldn't grant each other the right to hold an opposing opinion, much less defend another person's right to speak that opinion?
When celebrities and media types join the politicians in their childish wars of words...we as a nation are divided a bit more. And when THAT happens, we're distracted just long enough for another little right of ours to be taken away. If they aren't using our fears to do such things, they're using little games to make us happy to have our rights taken away...games that are better suited to quieting a room full of 8 year olds.
So, when a police officer in Travis County offers you the ticket to that baseball game, tell him or her, "No thank you...I'd rather have my right to drive down the road without being pulled over." If you really DO want to see that baseball game, buy a ticket. I'm sure that the Round Rock Express would appreciate it
Yeah right. If the Round Rock Express minor-league baseball team could actually SELL a ticket, they wouldn't be giving them away to the citizens of Travis County, no matter how well they drove.
And, I seriously doubt the motives of the Travis County Sheriff's Department. When I was driving around on a suspended license, I was the best damn driver on the road. The last thing I wanted to see was a squad car in my rear view mirror...I wouldn't have cared if the cop wanted to give me free tickets to Tahiti.
The cops know what I know...if the speed limit is 35, unlicensed driver's are going exactly 34.8 MPH. When I drive behind some nit wit going the speed limit on the highway, I KNOW he's got something to hide.
Personally, I don't care. But it must drive the cops INSANE to know that the guy obeying every single rule of the road is up to something, yet they don't have probable cause to pull them over. So, they came up with a neat little trick. Now they pull over the good drivers and hand them tickets to some third rate baseball game that no one wanted to see in the first place. Could we just watch the World Series and NOT be pulled over for driving so well?
All I expect from the cops when I drive well is to be left alone. Maybe a little wave or tip of the hat and then it would be nice if they went on their merry way. If I want tickets to a baseball game, I'll go to Ticketmaster.
When I went to the local animal shelter a few years ago and adopted an animal, they injected a little chip into my new pet that was full of information. I wondered how long it be before the government decided to inject us with those same little chips...most likely for the purpose of "protecting" us from some potential crime.
Then, in the state of Georgia, they began demanding fingerprints in order to receive a driver's license. That, too, was to protect us...this time from identity theft. Who knows what potential crime or fear that the government will use next to extrapolate a few more of our rights from us? Governments rarely take away rights in one fell swoop. They slowly and insidiously take them away one by one until we suddenly look up and ask, "How the heck did we lose all of the rights we used to have?"
Those who are supposed to protect us want more and more rights and to get them, they necessarily have to take them away from those whom they purport to protect. And then they tell us, "Well, if you have nothing to hide...you shouldn't have a problem giving up these rights." The rights that they seek to restrict were never made to protect criminals...they were made to protect those of us who had nothing to hide. Only a jack ass would go out of their way to grant all of these rights to criminals.
Yet,when we ask for them to respect out rights and when we refuse to submit to the restrictions, we're accused of having "something to hide".
I've even heard my fellow citizens putting forth that very same asinine assertion...making me wonder how many true morons there are walking around.
I used to hear the following statement often:
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
Well, I don't hear it much anymore. That patriotic mentality seems to have fallen by the wayside and has been replaced with divisiveness and partisanship. How did that happen? How did we go from a nation of people willing to lie down their lives for the rights of their neighbors to a nation of petty, name calling, relf righteous adversary's who wouldn't grant each other the right to hold an opposing opinion, much less defend another person's right to speak that opinion?
When celebrities and media types join the politicians in their childish wars of words...we as a nation are divided a bit more. And when THAT happens, we're distracted just long enough for another little right of ours to be taken away. If they aren't using our fears to do such things, they're using little games to make us happy to have our rights taken away...games that are better suited to quieting a room full of 8 year olds.
So, when a police officer in Travis County offers you the ticket to that baseball game, tell him or her, "No thank you...I'd rather have my right to drive down the road without being pulled over." If you really DO want to see that baseball game, buy a ticket. I'm sure that the Round Rock Express would appreciate it
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