More Liberal Hypocrisy
Most legislation is passed with the good intention of helping somebody somewhere. The more likable the person protected, the better the likelyhood of the law passing. Even if it is a really lame bill, you can always give it a good name and people will have a hard time voting against it. This can be seen when Liberals want to pass a bill to make millions of illegal immigrants legal competitors in a job market carrying a 9.8% unemployment rate, and call it the "DREAM Act". DREAM stands for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, but who could be opposed to a dream? "I have a dream", right? Fortunately, not everyone fell for it. Here is another good touchy feel good bill. Colorado Senate Bill 10-110 was designed to toughen Colorado's existing seat belt laws. From the Colorado website, here's what it does.
Motor vehicle safety and operation. Under current law, the driver, any front seat passengers, and children age 6 and older must wear a seat belt when the vehicle is in motion. Small children under age 6 must be in an appropriate child car seat. Violation of these requirements is a class B traffic infraction. Senate Bill 10-110 modifies child restraint requirements for children up to age 8. With some exceptions, these children must be in an age- and size-appropriate child seat in the rear seat of the vehicle. From ages 8 to 16, children can sit in the front or back seat so long as they use a safety belt or are in an appropriate child restraint device. The CSP and local law enforcement agencies are required to keep compilations of manufacturer's instructions for best-selling child restraint systems. From August 1, 2010, to August 1, 2011, drivers violating child restraint provisions set forth under the bill will only be issued a warning.
Now, there is nothing wrong with that, right? Children should be properly restrained in a vehicle. I know you are waiting for me to drop the hammer on this law, but I'm not going to do it. In fact, I would like to give an award to Colorado State Senator Suzanne Williams for sponsoring this law and getting it passed. Unfortunately, I don't believe she is available for any awards ceremonies right now.
The Colorado state senator who drove the car that smashed head-on into an SUV, killing a pregnant Amarillo woman and imperiling her unborn child, told a state trooper she had no memory of what led to the crash, the Department of Public Safety said Tuesday.
A colleague of Sen. Suzanne Williams' said the lawmaker's family told her that the senator's son Todd unbuckled his seat belt and climbed into the back seat to put pajamas on his children, who were unbuckled, just before the collision Sunday evening on U.S. 385 near Channing, Hartley County. Only Williams, a staunch supporter of stricter child seat-belt laws, was buckled at the time of the crash, according to police.
Yes, that would be Senator Suzanne Williams, making sure you buckle your kids, yet driving around with her son climbing into the back of his car to put pajamas on his unrestrained children. There are a lot of strange circumstances surrounding this accident, not the least of which where it happened. The Senator was on her way from Denver to Vail Colorado when she wrecked in Amarillo Texas.
Unfortunately, the pregnant wife of the driver of the vehicle was killed in the crash. Fortunately, she was the only fatality. Doctors were even able to successfully deliver her unborn child after she died.
Senator Williams also had tried to make seat belt offenses a primary offense, meaning that officers could pull you over simply for not wearing one, rather than having to have some other reason for the stop. She failed in this effort. The Senator is just another example of a Liberal demanding legislation that they feel that they are above.
