I must say that the latest pronouncement from Ontario’s Attorney General didn’t surprise me all that much. It’s fairly consistent with the prevailing trend that is seeing individual property rights eroded, and our freedoms diminished:
“If we can establish someone has parts and they’re juicing up their car — obviously for the purpose of street racing — then we can seize those vehicles,” Bryant said.
“We will seize it and you will never see it again. We will crush your car, we will crush the parts.”
This is not only a ridiculously unworkable suggestion, but it will do little more than punish law-abiding citizens who like to put after-market parts on their cars.
To stop street racing and the type of dangerous driving that many young people have been engaged in will require more than a knee-jerk, band-aid measure like this. We need much stiffer penalties for speeding and for dangerous driving, and we need better education that emphasizes the effects of dangerous driving on innocent victims.
