NTSB Wants to Ban All Cellphones
Posted on December 20, 2011
Filed Under HORROR STORIES, IN THE NEWS, POLITICS
The other big news on the cellphone front was the National Transportation Safety Board has declared that all cellphones, regardless of whether it has hands-free technology or not, should be illegal while driving, in any type of vehicle, not just commercial vehicles.
Just to clarify, that means, if you are in your car, and you want to make a phone call, even with your Bluetooth, it would be illegal. The NTSB wants it to be illegal to talk on the phone, no exceptions.
What does this mean? Initially, nothing. The NTSB has no regulatory power. However, when it makes recommendations, the safety nannies now have cover to implement their draconian bans, rules, and laws, if they want. Naturally, under the Obama Department of Transportation, they most certainly do want. All you need do is listen to the language they use, as they breathlessly describe the NTSB’s declaration as a “game-changer”.
The way the Obama DOT would take your cellphone is by blackmailing the States to adopt their cellphone ban by withholding highway funding. The Federal government successfully used this tactic when it forced all States to adopt a 0.08 BAC level for drunk driving.
Naturally, the NTSB has no data to support their ban, none. In fact, it was just announced highway fatalities fell again, to the lowest levels since 1949. Furthermore, there has been no reduction in crashes in those States, which have banned hand-held cellphones. But hey, never let the facts get in the way of a good story, right NTSB?
According to the NTSB, talking on a cellphone in a car is a public-health epidemic, like drunk driving, or smoking. Nonsense! What is the difference if I am talking on my Bluetooth to a customer in Detroit, or to talking to my wife sitting in the passenger seat? There is no difference! I guess that will be next, the safety nazis will ban passengers, or perhaps conversation.
Every time these fools break out their “no life is worth, blah, blah, blah” crap, they ignore certain realities. If we wanted to eliminate highway deaths, we could do so tomorrow. We would just eliminate cars. Of course, no would be able to get to work, the economy would stop, and we’d all starve to death, but you wouldn’t be killed in a highway crash. Just a slower, more likely death due to starvation.
This type of a ban would be crippling to the economy. Nearly every type of working person communicates with a cellphone while driving. Utility workers. Lawyers. Accountants. Teachers. Salesmen. Contractors. All doing work, and creating economy activity while driving. Gone. Poof. The amount of people thrown into the unemployment line, would be staggering. By all means, that’s what we need right now are more unemployed people.
Then again, forget the economy, this ban would be crippling to my freedom. You cannot legislate away risk! Not in a free society. The more you try, the less free we become. The statistics say the amount of highway deaths are at their lowest levels since 1949. I’m ok with that! LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!
President Obama’s regulatory Commandant, Ray LaHood, recently said, “Keeping Americans safe is without question the Federal government’s highest priority”. Let’s compare that with Thomas Jefferson:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Jefferson should have added, “but they don’t have the Right to talk on the Cellphone, if some government bureaucrat declares they Cannot”.
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