Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:35:44 -0700 From: r.destephens@WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Richard DeStephens) Subject: Re: Jan. 27 column -- roadblocks To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
Don Cline wrote:
> That doesn'tchange the fact that proof of competency and financial
> responsibility
The laminated card is not proof of competency.
> is and should be required before operating any lethal machinery at public
> risk.
Like a farm tractor?
> To the argument "It doesn't help!" because of the way twenty percent of the
> drivers drive now, I reply, "You want everyone to do it?"
>
Which would suggest that everyone would shoplift without a grocery card.
> Vin also asks, "Did you forget how to drive when you moved across town? If
> not, why do you need to update your address?" I reply, "For the purposes of
> financial privacy."
I don't get the connection.
> Besides which, I don't: I've had the same mailing
> address for the last ten years, and I've lived in about a dozen locations.
>
How can you be finacially liable if you can go into hiding. Wasn't that your argument?