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| Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
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| I was browsing my local newspaper this morning, and saw that our State House of Representatives killed the Seatbelt Law that I was following super closely during my winter co-op!! I was against the bill, personally, and my organization didn't take an official position. I was especially struck by all the rhetoric that was being thrown around, the emotional manipulation used in the debates, and the way that calling something a "public safety bill" was used like a magic phrase to completely erase any constitutional concerns. I'm not sure the constitutional concerns were founded - there was a vague "unsettlingness" about it - and some of the parallels that were being drawn didn't cut it for me, but it was the knee-jerk reaction that was expected by the claims of "public safety" that bothered me most. |
posted by Zuska @ 6:59 AM   |
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