boob oppression

[rone]

Some woman was sentenced to three months of house arrest after she was spotted "nursing her baby daughter on an Ohio highway while driving at 65mph. She said she did not stop because she was talking on the phone to her husband and taking notes on the steering wheel." Note that she feels that the police trampled her religious freedom because she hadn't "done anything wrong." Of course, the cops could've played along and arrested her husband for contributing to the delinquency of a minor or something.

I wonder why we haven't gotten more dangerous behavior justified behind the shield of religious freedom; hell, why don't these greedhead asshole executives who embezzle their way to fame and fortune just claim to be Objectivists and rebuff any attempt of prosecution as a trampling of their beliefs?

Perhaps i need to found the First Scorched Earth Fellowship for Eternal Sovereignty, where whoever holds the lead pipe is head of the family and metes out punishment to anyone who doesn't hold one.

Comments

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

Since when does religious freedom have anything to do with BREAKING THE LAW by having your kid not restrained in a child safety seat? Nurse the kid until she's reading Harry Potter for all I care. But until she's eight years old AND eighty pounds, she should be in the BACK SEAT in a safety seat.

Idiots.

[huaman.livejournal.com]

Aw crap, in which state is it 8 years and 80 pounds now?

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

I don't think 8/80 is the law in any states...I believe most states are 6/60. I could go look this up, but I'm too lazy right now.

Fact is, auto-safety experts are the ones that are recommending 8/80, because it's been shown to be safer. I fail to see the advantage to having a kid a) not sitting in a booster, or 2) having the kid in the front seat...it's all much of a muchness, really. Gotta sit somewhere, doesn't really matter where, may as well be the safest place, no? Am I a total worrywort or something?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

My mom didn't let me or my brother sit in the front seat of the car until we were 12. So, no, i don't think you're a total worrywart.

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

OK, I got un-lazy.

http://www.safechild.net/for_parents/carboosterseats.html

Looks like Maine, DC, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming -- and then various other weirdnesses. But still. Personally, I don't care what the LAW says...it's about doing what's safest, within reason, of course.