Posted on 06/13/2015 7:52:10 AM PDT by SamAdams76
bad ice cube
I think the law should be respected and enforced, till it’s repealed.
Doesn’t mean I think present law and its enforcement is always what it should be.
How do you think the Founders would have dealt with people charging around the countryside at 50 to 100 mph in vehicles weighing a couple of tons? This is a very, very dangerous thing to do. It is and should be illegal.
I’ve always found the self-righteousness inherent in prosecutions for DUI a tad odd. Only type of case I can think of where the judge, prosecutors, defense attorneys and jury have all probably been technically guilty of the same offense but just didn’t get caught.
I would guess, Operating under the influence.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
A couple of decades ago, the substance you gave up is a lot less than today's shearing.
They have it down to a science, now.
They did their job properly. What I was doing was not fully intentional, but by doing it I was risking my own life and that of others. It was both wrong and illegal.
My feeling is that DUI is mostly a thought crime, and that the various interested parties have brainwashed the peasantry into feeling guilty enough about it to write what you wrote above [There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."].
Summary executions after a week or two, when you've drunkenly maimed or killed someone, would be just fine by me. Of course, that doesn't grease the Machine at all.
If that notion offends you, tough. Or, better, work to repeal laws against DUI for everybody, not just friends of the police.
LOL! The old "work to repeal the laws" gambit! Yes, when I'm paying them full time, with full medical & a swell retirement, to churn out more and more and more laws.
How's that working out for us?
I think the Founders should have considered the built-in sunsetting of ALL laws, so that the busy little legislative termites would have much of their time occupied keeping laws that we need - not sedimentary build-up that we can't dredge out.
I think the Romans had a similar problem, and I'm sure the Founders knew about it, but apparently didn't think things would ever get to the pass that they're at now.
Peremptory hangings in the case of maiming or killing. I think there's plenty of evidence in the historical record to support their "insensitivity" when it came to these kind of things. :)
So, it’s OK to drive drunk and when you are stopped, it’s OK to pull out the “Dont you know who I am card?”
Screw her. You drive under the influence you deserve to go to jail.
I have a somewhat different view. If you wish to endanger your own life by stupid behavior, go right ahead. I think, for instance, of idiots who race each other on the public streets.
If you endanger innocents who haven’t signed up for it, you should be arrested and punished according to law.
I wrote no such thing. Your straw man did, though...
Screw her. You drive under the influence you deserve to go to jail.
2006: Patrick Kennedy pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving under the influence of prescription drugs and was sentenced to undergo court-ordered drug treatment and a year's probation.
Patrick's dad, The Swimmer, got his license yanked for six months back in 1970.
Do you know who THEY are? LOL! :)
Peasant law, and its defenders, are SO amusing...
Agreed.
Right! But that's not driving under the influence.
I've had the popcorn out for YEARS waiting for the densest of the peasantry to figure out that having ONE drink at a restaurant is a fool's game.
Being as how the booze is one of the biggest profit generators at many restaurants, the current state of affairs has already put the crimp on restaurant profits.
Wonder how many years till most, if not all, of the restaurants tell the various states to jam their lucrative liquor license$$$ up their a$$e$?
If you endanger innocents who haven’t signed up for it, you should be arrested and punished according to law.
Certainly, but we need to throttle back on the Panopticon. Where I'm at, we have three flavors of cops, and then there's the cops on four-wheelers, on snowmobiles, in SWEET power boats, and then the game wardens and NPS mounties.
As in the video game Jardinains - they're EVERYWHERE!
Wonder why "peasant law" didn't apply to THEM? Hmmmmmmm?
You certainly wrote about your outrage that she was stopped.
WTF is it with people around here who automatically point to the dens treatment. Drunk driving is not a contest. Just because Teddy got away with it doesn’t mean that a Republican gets a freebie.
If she was driving drunk, I don’t care what happened in the past. I am glad she will be off my streets.
And there was no straw man argument. Which is Exactly what you wrote.
Your straw man is just that - a straw man.
Clever and funny!
“Do you know who I am?” worked for Kennedy. Does that mean it should have also worked for this broad?
What you are saying is true, but it’s an argument for equal enforcement of law, not for equal lack of enforcement.
You keep using that term. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Defenders of draconian and rent-seeking DUI laws are excellent examples of the pernicious effects of incessant media propagandizing.
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