Posted on 01/15/2016 7:23:11 AM PST by C19fan
The National Transportation Safety Board wants to decrease the legal driving limit to one drink, lowering the legal limit on blood-alcohol content to 0.05 “or even lower.â€
The agency released its “most wanted list†on Wednesday, a laundry list of policies it would like implemented nationally. The list includes recommendations to reduce the current 0.08 blood alcohol content limit and outlaw all cell phone use while driving, even hands-free technology.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
“The new proposed regulation stipulates you are not permitted to drive within an hour of watching a beer commercial.”
Of course they will! The elitist will be allowed because they are our so-called “royalty”. This is why they should have term limits and let them live under their own tyranny!!
Oh they’ll get rid of the beer commercials too.
Wow, how many lawmakers, and law enforcement officers are going to be in deep doodoo if this happens?
With mandatory sentencing, this will be tragic for people who have old DUIs. I know one person who had to spend a year in state prison because he was pulled over at lunchtime, the day after drinking, and still had trace amounts of alcohol in his system (people metabolize alcohol at different rates, so, apparently, this isn’t that uncommon). His two priors, from over 10 years before this incident, meant that he was now a third time offender, and got a lengthy vacation. And the mandatory sentencing laws have gotten much more draconian, since then.
I’m a smoker that doesn’t drink.
I have no more interest is what they do to drinkers than most drinkers cared about the 2nd hand smoke hysteria.
That is,none.
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Ban radios in cars. Ban unruly children. Ban talkative women. Ban animals. Ban riders. Ban anything that distracts. Then fine everyone...a lot. LIBs are such asshats. They are mentally ill.
I don't drink nor smoke any more, yet I still retain an interest in the erosion of Liberty, no matter what guise it takes.
I have even been voted out of a job I wasn't elected nor appointed to by allegedly moral people and others with conflicting interests who didn't want to ban something, just limit it.
Consider C. S. Lewis:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
That quote is awesome-——and so true.
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One of my favorites...
I swear I have read, even on FR, some zealots that think that way.
I’m old enough to remember the Blood Alcohol limit being .15 and knowing People who were pulled over for being intoxicated being put into a Cab by the Cops and sent home to sleep it off.
Of course the Banks were only open from 10 to 3 back then too. #;^)
Oh, now that is good!!!
Your actual ability to drive or impairment is irrelevant these days, a cold number is so much easier for dim mentalities to deal with. Makes sweeping up anyone that had wine with dinner out that much easier as well.
Actually, the blood alcohol level limit began as “at the police officer’s discretion”. Then the American Medical Association was tasked with determining a standard that would apply to all (one size fits NONE) drivers. That standard was 0.15%.
People “got the message”, and impaired driving convictions dropped quite drastically after a short time. The MADD and various other nannies lobbied hard, and got the government to lower the BAC limit to 0.10%. Suddenly there was a HUGE spike in DUI convictions.
Then, once again, the number of convictions dropped off as people got used to the new, lower standard. Again, the MADD cows and other “temperance” groups lobbied hard and loud for lower limits.
Lo and behold, the standard is lowered to 0.08%, and another HUGE spike in DUI convictions.
The conviction rate has once again dropped off to where the illegal and unconstitutional fishing expeditions known as DUI checkpoints are no longer as profitable.
The MADD gang and temperance groups are once again lobbying for lower standards, even though the SCIENCE shows that there is little to no impairment at the current BAC level.
It’s all about control and revenue now.
Disclaimer: I was recently (last year) nailed by the 0.05% new standard. No lawyer, no trial, just an administrative 72 hour driving prohibition, a $200 fine, a $250 “license reinstatement” fee, a $31 “license re-issue” fee, and a non-refundable $100 fee to appeal the suspension.
I lost the appeal, BTW, as there is no face-to-face hearing, but some bureaucrat in an office looks at your written arguments and passes judgement in what I refer to as a “Star Chamber” proceeding.
It cost me $581 for having 2 beers on my way home from work. Welcome to 1984.
See my post above.
Just as "gun control" is not really about guns, it's about PEOPLE CONTROL by the feds.
Ditto for the War on Drugs.
They are getting silly now. If you go to a wedding reception or even out to dinner, and you have a couple of glasses of wine, you would be in violation of their new proposed rules. Many of us who have been very careful to not drink and drive for 50 years or so, find this new proposal objectionable.
I am 70. I have been driving since I was a teen. I have always watched to not drink and drive. This new proposal is ridiculous. I think people will simply start to just ignore the government if they pass crap like this. This is a jackass move and should be treated as such. People who are inclined to drink and drive don’t pay attention to the laws now. Does the government think this will make them start to obey?
Start arresting federal bureaucrats and judges for drinking a beer, and this will end real fast.
Hell, unleash state bureaucrats and eat out their substance. Shut down federal courts for building code violations. Pull over every federal fascist bureaucrat for busted tailights and under-inflated tires.
Evict them from their homes for insect infestations and improper electrical wiring. Then condemn the house as not fit for human habitation. Then watch how fast these filthy rats run.
“There have been many reports for years now that even admitting to one drink will get you busted for a DWI.”
Yea, it puts you into a kind of gray area where the pigs have to prove that you were also driving unsafe - a much higher standard and you may get off with a decent lawyer. Blow a 0.08 or more and no matter what a lawyer tells you, the odds are 99% you’ll be convicted.
But even if you get off at the low level, since you were not driving in an unsafe manner, you still have a major headache and associated costs. From the pig’s standpoint, there’s no downside, just some paperwork to run you in...so if they don’t like you, for any reason, you’re toast.
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