[Vision2020] Rights, privileges and licenses

[Donovan Arnold]

Driving is a privilege, not a right, because not everyone has the ability to drive safely or can afford a safe vehicle. If it was a right, it would also require the state to provide you a car, fuel, and proper roads to drive on; none of which the state of Idaho does. 
 
If elected county officials started revoking driver licenses for reasons not given to them by the people of Idaho, they could and most likely would be sued and lose. Not to mention the people of the county would remove all the elected county members.
 
No, I think the county and state has the right and responsibility to regulate the type of transportation I use and how I control it traveling up and down public right of ways where there are other people who have a reasonable amount of expectation of safety and order. 
 
If anything, I think the government is too lenient in who it gives a license to and what it will stick a registration tag on. 
 
 
Best Regards,
 
Donovan
 
 
 
 
 


--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rights, privileges and licenses
To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com, brentbradberry at netscape.net
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 2:57 PM


I don't buy the driving is a privilege mantra.  If driving were a
privilege, then that would make it a special entitlement granted by
the government -- revocable at its whim -- and I don't give the
government that power.  The government exists for me, not the other
way around.

Now, for the public good, I cede the government the authority to
regulate driving (via licensing),but that doesn't mean that I have
ceded them my inalienable right to select my method of travel.

If the government revoked my license to drive, and there reason was
just, then I would humbly submit to the power that I had granted them.
If they revoked it on a whim, I would have to consider my options
carefully, as I am not a martyr who would endure prison in protest.
However, what would happen if the government decided to revoke
everyone's  license to drive, and the reason was unjust?

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