vaccinated. i don t want to get vaccinated because you want me to get vaccinated is the argument there. it is your agenda to get me vaccinated, therefore i don t want to. don t shove it down my throat. it may be hard to believe but we ve been here before, something similar. it was nearly 40 years ago a fight like this one happened in this country about requiring a public health measures that would save lives, and conservatives across the country fought against it and they lost, thank goodness. they lost that battle so thoroughly and completely you may not remember how huge of a fight it was at the time. every morning 365 days a week, most everybody in richland village, michigan, gathers at the park view to talk about the burning issues of the day. these days there is only one. i think everybody is in too much shock to explain it. reporter: it is a new seatbelt ordinance. if the town council gets its way seatbelts will be mandatory for everybody riding in the front seat of a car
people think they will be harassed and this is not our intent at all. reporter: their intent, they say, is to save lives and set a good example. there s an election here in march. by then the town s two police officers will likely be enforcing a new seatbelt ordinance. after then, there might be a new city council. now, doesn t all of that sound familiar? i feel like i have heard that same interview but about masks and vaccines, maybe even in the state of michigan. how dare you tell me what to do? the month after that report in march 1984, richland village voted the seatbelt ordinance down. 145-51. they were overruled by a michigan state law the following year and eventually 49 states in the union passed laws mandating seat belts. across country a fax of people resisted. under no circumstances do they want to be required to wear a seatbelt. i oppose it on the basis that it replaces the free will of the individual with the desires of the state. you can t force people to do thi