Take a well-intentioned but badly written law, add an overzealous cop and/or
prosecutor, and you have unintended consequences that take an act of
Congress (or the Legislature) to put right.
Efforts to head 'em off at the pass are well advised.
--Rocky Entriken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
To: "Ron Nottingham" <nottingham@alltel.net>; "Team.Net"
<autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: HELP! Florida making autocross/rallycross/ illegal??,02-098
> >The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Wake up!!! I am going out on
> >a limb, and I'm going to assume... all SCCA autox's are run on a
> >parking lot that has been rented, or received permission from the OWNER,
> >and carries insurance for that event. Plus, most parking lots are
> >privately owned, and last time I checked, the owner can do whatever
> >he/she wants to do with their property.
>
> Is that right? Anything? Like shoot off fireworks? Open an outdoor
rifle
> range? Sell liquor? Use stag hounds to hunt deer? Run bullfights?
>
> Public laws can be enforced on private property. I do not know that
> Florida, or anyone else, is planning to stamp out autocrossing. But don't
> think for one minute that they could not do so if they wanted to.
>
> Your attempt to draw a comparison between the fictitious Chicken Little
and
> people working in earnest to prevent anti-autocrossing laws is
ill-advised.
> I applaud on behalf of autocrossers everywhere the efforts of people to
> promote an autocross-friendly legal atmosphere.
>
> Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
> 1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4
CT2846L
> pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/ http://www.vtr2002.org
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