Subject: Social Burden or Corporate Greed?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:37:59 -0500
From: Rudy rudy@gardenstateabate.org
Issue 2-1 - The real story behind the "social burden" theory
One of the main arguments that non riders use to justify mandatory
helmet laws for all motorcyclists, is that if they are not wearing
helmets they become a „social burden‰ and therefore the majority is
justified in taking away a freedom from a much smaller minority. In
this issue I will explore a key source for this disinformation and
shed some light on their less than altruistic reasons for limiting our
freedom to choose.
It appears that there is another player you may not have been aware of
when it comes to our battle to be able make our own informed adult
decision as to whether to wear a helmet or not. This organization is
known as Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
(http://www.saferoads.org). This organization recently released
„report cards‰ to all states on auto and highway safety.
This organization has „graded‰ every state for things such as not
having a primary enforcement of seatbelt laws, lack of mandatory
helmet laws for all motorcyclists regardless of their driving
experience, and not having red light cameras at intersections among
other things. The media has also dutifully reported on these grades so
that the general public and politicians accept them as "truth". While
on the surface this may sound like these are people who are
unselfishly looking to protect the general population from itself,
let‚s examine this organization and its possible motives a little
more
closely.
To view the entire article, please visit:
http://www.gardenstateabate.org
Rudy Avizius
ABATE of the Garden State
