At 1:07 PM -0600 4/28/01, Blake Thornton rearranged electrons to say:

>This is quite sad and interesting.  It made me wonder when the US started
>requiring shoulder belts in the rear seats (it was certainly after 1986,

Doesn't the rule 'ex post facto' mean you cannot be tried for an
action that was not a crime when you did it? That is, since shoulder
belts were not required in the rear seat of minivans in 1986, it was
not wrong for the Vanagon to not have them at that time. Or am I
forgetting my high-school civics terminology?

Sometimes I'm ashamed to be an American...

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