Live Free or Die!!! - New Hampshire Official State Motto
I report and link. You decide. - J :)
From a New Hampshire Union Leader Page 1 Editorial by the Publisher, Seatbelts good; big government force is bad:
Page 1 Editorial: Seatbelts good; big government force is bad [/] By JOSEPH W. MCQUAID [/] New Hampshire Union Leader Publisher [/] Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2007
Adults who don't bother to use a seatbelt each and every time they enter an automobile are either not thinking clearly or don't have the capacity to think at all.
Elected officials who presume to understand and speak for the Live Free or Die state aren't thinking clearly if they vote to have the government force people to buckle up. That vote is scheduled in the House tomorrow and it looks like it may pass.
Seatbelts are good for you. But you are more likely to die from too much fat in your diet. Why isn't the Legislature telling us what we can and cannot eat? Don't laugh. That may be next.
New Hampshire has shown steady improvement in seatbelt usage and still kept Big Government at bay. That will change tomorrow with this bill, which would allow police to pull you over and fine you if they see that you are not belted up.
Is that the New Hampshire way? Do we want our small government to go down the slippery slope that leads to more and more orders and less and less liberty? That's what this vote is really all about. New Hampshire citizens will be watching it closely. [My ellipses and emphasis]
