It is not the US government's responsibility to ensure that everything is rainbows and unicorns around the world;
You mean that bill failed? Damnit. I wait months watching CSPAN and I get up to go to the bathroom once, and I miss the rainbows and unicorns bill...
How is any of that flushing your 4th amendment rights down the toilet? Show me anywhere the 4th amendment give you the right to drive. Show me anywhere the 4th amendment says that the government cannot restrict what/how/where/when we drive?
Driving is not a right.
The only reason people think so is because we have built our country, our cities, and our system in such a way that makes it very inconvenient to not drive. But if you don't like the licensing requirements, or you don't like the license plates, or you don't like insurance requirements or whatever - you are always completely free to not drive....
Because you see, your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. And a car is a 4000lb fist, and I don't want to be hit with it.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones