The Erosion of Freedom (elect, laws, New York, kids)

[ABQLifer]

A proposed law in New York City would prohibit citizens from utilizing mp3 players, cell phones and other electronic devices while crossing the street as a measure to increase public safety. In my city, a burgeoning number of Red-Light cameras and a newly passed cell phone ban while driving (headset use excluded) have been enacted for the same reasons of public safety as well. Are these litigious steps, sold as a "benefit" to our safety, truly in the "spirit of freedom" for the general citizenry? Since when has progressive thinking in America come to mean nothing more than a result that examines and then limits behaviors further and further? The future implications for these laws and the ones that follow seem dangerous to me.



Links:

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Feb07/0,4670,PedestrianElectronics,00.html (broken link)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/07/nyc.ipod.reut/index.html (broken link)

http://www.krqe.com/expanded.asp?RECORD_KEY%5BNews%5D=ID&ID%5BNews%5D= 15806 (broken link)
http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewe...t=NMTOPSTORIES

[sprtsluvr8]

If cell phone use is banned there needs to be an argument for the banning of ALL activities while driving as well...application of make-up, sight seeing, eating, radio adjustment, cd changing, yelling at kids (or maybe just no kids in the car altogether), daydreaming, conversating with passengers, flirting with pedestrians, seizures, mirror checking...just say no thinking of any kind! Punishment is to drive in the heaviest rush hour traffic to the most popular suburb for however long you can take it....