When the original law was passed, police could not pull someone over for the suspicion of or even witnessing someone not wearing the safety device.  Over the years, it has progressed bit by bit, to that place where police can not only use the excuse of a possible seat belt violation to pull over and detain an individual, but then to further put it in our face with commercial after commercial during your favorite Detroit sporting event, stating that they CAN and WILL violate your 4th amendment protections, and there ain't nothing you can do about it..  beep beep  beep..

This type of "slow cooking" (referring to the oft used "frog in boiling water" theory) lends itself to many "public safety" issues, and is by design intended to maintain a low level of threat by conditioning us to accept the "insignificant inconveniences" or not so sudden "change" which would most certainly ring alarm bells in our mostly complacent skulls of mush.  Conservatives will take note, and too often will be chastised as extreme on the issue.

Environmental activism operates much in this way.  Of course who in their right mind would argue against measures which protect us from "pollution!"  Mandates which were gradually increased on emissions outputs, and fuel economy have all but been accepted as normal by our automakers, who have glee fully capitulated while ignoring the holes in their pockets, which has led up to today's issues.  Power providers have accepted the outputs conditions, and happily passed the costs of new technology as slowly as possible to the consumer to avoid retribution, yet finally had to do something... and fast.

In fact  Its no coincidence that with the coming mandates on renewable for our power supply in Michigan, the major players have set themselves up for survival by quite literally putting themselves under more stringent regulation.  They know what it will cost to provide electricity on the basis of what the politicians have promised they will do.  They have provided a level of protection for themselves from the torch bearing mobs who when finally given the bill will seek out the green monster which has started to terrorize them.  No Michigan... there can be no competition for our future energy needs.