Vermont has introduced legislation that will make it mandatory for all occupants of a passenger vehicle to wear a full-face crash helmet. Citing research from the Society To Prevent Death, or STPD, Vermont politicians are overwhelmingly in favor of the law.
However, controversy is growing around the issue of religious exemptions. An ad-hoc committee called People of the Turban, or PoT, including many of Vermont's most prominent Muslims and Sikhs, has lobbied to have those faiths exempted from the proposed legislation.
PoT spokesman Andarprit Singh claims that his religious freedon trumps questions of personal safety, and besides, wearing a turban is as effective in protecting vehicle occupants as a helmet would be, if not more so.
That's not impressing Assemblyman Bruno Krautheimer. "These Potheads don't fool me for a minute" Krautheimer told Vermont News at Eleven. "Who was the guy who started this stuff? Salim, Anwar Salim, that's who. Is that not a Muslim name?"
Sketching the broad outlines of an Islamist conspiracy, Krautheimer went on to say that if the religious exemptions were permitted Americans will be converting to Islam in droves to avoid the draconian helmet laws.
"That's the plan. What they couldn't do with 9/11 they're going to do with this damned helmet law, and I for one am not going to stand idly by while they pull it off! This is a Christian country, godammit!"
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