We've all seen the ads on TV and on billboards. "Click-it or Ticket! It's a law you can live with." Well whoever came up with that slogan, you piss me off! Don't tell me what law I can live with, and frankly, I don't think I can live with this law and your arrogance to say that I can only makes me not want to wear my seatbelt more. I wonder if Patrick Henry could have lived with this law.

I need to add this disclaimer. I think wearing your seatbelt is a good thing. People who don't do it (myself included sometimes) are just stupid! But all "good things" are not meant to be laws and that is where I have to claim the seatbelt law is unconstitutional. And here's why...

Law's have two purposes. 1.) To protect us from others, and 2.) to protect us from ourselves when we have been deemed insane. The problem with the seatbelt law is that with a broad stroke of a pen, it has deemed all of us in society unfit to take care of ourselves and think responsibly. It is this insinuation that drives me nuts and honestly "Mr. PR Man" makes for a law I can't live with.

Now you say Andy what is the big deal? It's a good law that encourages us to act safer. Really? Where does this stop? It would be much better for America if everyone stopped smoking. Do we outlaw that? No! It would be much better for America to eat healthier. Do we legislate that? No! (Although on a side note they are considering it). It would be much better if Americans didn't rack up so much debt. Do we legislate spending? No! Frankly, the government needs to back off this issue and if Americans want to kill themselves by not wearing a seatbelt, the government should have nothing to say about it!

So you've got two options, you can just click-it mindlessly because the government and TV tell you to, or you can think about it and the unacceptable precedent this is setting. All in the name of "safety."

Ok, I need to say right off the bat that I do not support child molesters, nor do I support using the internet to solicit underage girls (or boys) for sexual activity. Remember that.

Last night, Dateline did another segment of what seems like the never ending "To Catch a Predator.” If you don't know what I am talking about, flip on NBC on any random night and you should be able to find it. Anyways, the premise of the show is they act like teenagers and solicit older men to meet them in person. When this event takes place, Dateline guy pops out, lambastes them for their actions, and then lets the person go. Only, once they get outside, the police take them down (violently I might add) and haul their butt off to jail.

Now, while still keeping in mind what I said at first, I have to say, I think the real criminal here is NBC (not that the others aren't criminals, but in this instance, it is NBC). The last time I looked entrapment was defined as, "agents of the government inducing a person to commit a crime he or she otherwise would not have committed." Now I know their are two things someone will say right away. 1.) Dateline is not the government and 2.) these people would commit these crimes anyway, therefore its not entrapment.

First of all, the government is using Dateline, so therefore, Dateline is a tool of the government. So that response is invalid. And to point number two. How do we know these people would have committed these crimes had they not been solicited by Dateline. Maybe it was a one time thing. Maybe it was the beginning of a downward lifestyle pattern that the individual would never recover from. Either way, it is Dateline’s fault. Also, I personally know how hard it is to resist the temptation to talk to someone online that is "eager to meet new people" and then turns it into something else. Now I am not saying I ever followed through with anything. In fact, when that conversation turned south, I would leave. But nevertheless, to say that someone would do it otherwise, just because they did it now, is not valid logic.

All I can say is, I hope Dateline never decides something I do is especially heinous for society. Because I imagine I'll fall into that trap easily and then it will be my face on Dateline, sitting across from Scuba-mcgee saying, gee, I don't know what I was thinking.