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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 14 The Utah Independent November 15, 1973 of all federal road building funds. Cony mu John Raridc warm YOU'VE A RIGHT TO KNOW constitutional DRIVERS After more than $200 million in television, radio, newspaper and public magazine service advertising urging Americans to buckle-u- p for safety." no more than 33 percent of the population follows this paternal advice. Upwards to 90 percent of the drivers in this country refuse to use shoulder harnesses, even though car owners are forced to buy them whether they want to or not. By now owners of 1974 automobiles should be familiar with ignition interlock systems that prevent their cars from starting until the seat belts are buckled. These are examples of bureaucratic edicts from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that force our citizens to conform to what Washington authorities decide, because its good for you." But this friendly persuasion apparently hasn't done the job the bureaucrats thought it should, and they have now resorted to mandatory methods. States have been told that they must pass laws making it a crime to operate a vehicle without buckling the seat belt. States which refuse stand the chance of losing Department of Transportation grant-in-ai- d money and 10 percent Family Storage Supply Citizens have lodged with both Houses of Congress, a Petition from the country-at-larg- e asking for a long overdue investigation of a political syndicate known by its own agents as Thirteen-Thirtee1313 is the source of troubles such as urban renewal, the current constitution revision craze, of Mayors and National Assn, of Counties, ACIR operates a law factory showering prepackaged legislation on all levels of government. ACIR claims it implements legislative or administrative action to carry out the recommendations. (ACIR te city manager Grievances charge that ACIR promotes an implacable drive to n. appointed to authority in which 1313 crouches behind its by Jo Hindman collectively force an individual citizen to do something solely for his individual benefit? Government can and should make laws that protect one citizen from another. But no government bureaucrat has the right, legal or moral, to force an American to do anything designed purely for his Aside from the question of own individual liberty, there are serious questions in some medical circles about the true value of the governments safety devices. Studies in Canada report injuries to the abdomen, spine, liver, kidneys and other internal organs as a result of poorly installed seat Head restraints, belt systems. which have been required in new cars for the past five years, at a cost totalling almost SI billion, have been show n to reduce whiplash by a mere 14 percent. How many other safety features" in our autos, put there by frustrated bureaucrats, arc as ineffective as this billion dollar flop? Before 200.000.000 Americans are whipped into line by a handful of bureaucrats, they have the right to know' all the facts about the devices that are designed to protect them. I recently participated in a debate on this subject in a national I he results reccicd publication. showed I hat an mcrwhclming 9ft percent ol those people responding laxored my position opposing mandator) fastening ol seat belts. It should beobxioiisthat American drivers are not read) to accept a driver backseat bureaucratic looking oxer their shoulders, observing their driving habits. BACK SEAT BUREAUCRATIC Tie AT Twelve state legisfatures rejected mandatory seat belt proposals last year, but they can be expected to be blackmailed into submission by the frustrated bureaucrats in the near future. At this time, Puerto Rico is the only U.S. jurisdiction to enact such a law. The question is not whether safety belts save lives and protect individuals involved in accidents. In large measure they do. The question is a larger one, involving individual liberty and government Does the federal intervention. government, or for jthat matter, the state governments, have the M-sta- 17 1968) governance, public planning laid local and state over private property, oppressive eradicate zoning and other ills, including governments under ACIRs the . concept of regional governance, Metro's dangerous non-law- s, Another grievance concerns which illegal rules and regulations H.R. 6869, Congressman John R. go beyond statutory authority. Coming recently from 13I3s Raricks bill which would place maw are the revenue sharing hoax, ACIR under legislative review, and the deliberate movement to Congress has simply ignored the stifle local government under the measure. H.R. 6869 is dying in an new layer of regional governance, obscure committee. Carl Albert, Speaker of the U.S. The name 1313 derives from one of the syndicate's addresses, 1313 House of Representatives reported E. 60th St., Chicago (111.), a corner that the original Petition had not Rockefeller been received, despite certified location on the mail proof of delivery on Sept. 3. family's University of Chicago. Tax exempt Rockefeller money Another copy was sent to him, built the edifice. Yearly tax exempt October. Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., until Ford and Carnegie money has recently an ACIR member, routed poured into the 1313 unit. The Petition directs its the Senates copy of the Petition to grievances against the Advisory the Senate subcommittee on on Intergovernmental Relations, the Commission Intergovernmental Relations very body which has processed so (ACIR). 131 3's cell within federal many of the ACIR bills, turning government. ACIR is controlled them into federal Metro laws. A by these 1313 groups: Council of protest has been lodged against the in the squirrel-Governo- rs State Governments, National conflict-of-intere- st Conference, National cage routine, typical of the manner l.cague of Cities, U. S. Conference U.S. GOVERNMENT CASTROS DEFENDER agents to cloak its operations. Thousands of copies of the Petition are now spreading out So that, over the United States. legislators at all levels of government will know why citizens are aligned against ACIR, copies are being sent by constituents to their Some local governments support ACIR. The scoreboard to date: Petition adopted Aug. 29, 1973 by Statewide Committees Opposing Regional Plan Areas (founded 1965); accepted by U.S. Senate, Sept. 6, Congressional Record p. SI 598 1; accepted by House, Oct. 16. 1973; CR 10 1673 p. H9I92. The Petition urges Congress to investigate not only ACIR but all of the farflung dangerous political conglomerate. ACIR, the federal 1313 cell, was created by PL amended by PL 89)733. Congress should rescind those two laws. If Congress can stand the truth about Watergate, Congress can stand the truth about Metro-131- 3. (Copyright by Jo Hindman 1973) REF. Stamped for sample Petition from envelope SCORPA, U.S. A., Powell Butte, Oregon 97753. 86-38- 0, self-address- ed AND how-man- y v'-ierM.- v.pr--'- s a ' - :irn ' STRINGHAM LUMBER CO : SAVE Il.i-ai- MAGIC Mil. I. (I nil I'lehung S? sheet) Door-J- . 24-s- ad 22.5.1 ca. with ' t. .69 ca. coil. flowta PttMrt I 2-- X Cofilft Furring Strips bld. 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