Posted on 09/18/2007 9:39:52 AM PDT by Philistone
I'm sorry that your child was killed by a drunk driver, but that doesn't give you the right to pull my car over at random and search me or it.
I'm sorry that your father died of lung cancer at the age of 60, but that doesn't give you the right to tell me I can't smoke in my own house or car.
I'm sorry that your best friend died of a heart-attack after eating nothing but Big Macs all his life, but that doesn't give you the right to tell me that I can't eat fats if I want to.
I'm sorry that you were raised to be squeamish at the sight of blood, but that does not give you the right to force me to eat only vegetables or wear only plant fibers.
I'm sorry that you can't afford health insurance, but that does not give you the right to force me to provide it for you.
I'm sorry that over 150 years ago people with the same color skin as me enslaved people with the same color skin as you, but that doesn't give you the right take the hard-earned efforts of my labor for yourself.
I'm sorry that your homeland is corrupt and your culture has no work ethic, but that doesn't give you the right to come here illegally and burden our schools and emergency rooms with your presence.
I'm sorry that your parents chose to come here illegally, but that doesn't give you the right to force me to fund your college education.
I'm sorry that you find it fashionable to ride your bike to work, but that doesn't give you the right to take away my car.
I'm sorry that your lack of intelligence and attention through high school and college left you fit only for a job as a public school teacher, but that doesn't give you the right to inflict your anger and ideology on my child.
I'm sorry that you are mentally and physically unfit to serve in our nation's Armed Forces, but that does not give you the right to disparage those who are fit and do serve.
I'm sorry that your parents and teachers continually told you that you are unique and special, but you are not.
I'm sorry that the jocks stuffed you in your locker in high school, but that doesn't give you the right to equate my President with Hitler.
I'm sorry that you failed Trigonometry, but that doesn't give you the right to equate Sociology with Engineering
I'm sorry that you are not as attractive as other women, but that does not give you the right to impose your feminist idiocracy on me, my company or my family.
I'm sorry that your nervous system is so exquisitely sensitive that you can be hurt by minute variations in air pressure caused by sound waves, but that doesn't give you the right to determine what I can and can not say.
I'm sorry that your enormous ego coupled with a complete lack of self-esteem, lack of any sense of self-worth and ignorance about how the real world works has led you to becoming a Liberal, but... Well, no buts. I'm not really sorry.
Remember: Anyone who tells you "it's for the children" believes that YOU are a child.
‘The latest information I have become aware of is that drunk driving deaths are going up again. And this is despite all the Government actions. I think the checkpoints are on balance ineffective and should be abandoned.’
I’d say the numbers going up reflect a population growing up.
Not to be confused with ‘maturing’ btw.
Hey, I’d like there to be an “easy” test for voting.
Better than nothing at all.
What is spelled out? It would be a HUGE document if everything were spelled out.
See the 9th and 10th.
One of the reasons I drive an H2 is ‘the other guy’...drunk or just stupid, it matters not when you have a head on at 60 mph.
I agree about the idiots that aren’t drunk, but also driving.
Then perhaps your alleged drunk-driving arrests going up coincided with the population going up, too.
It also may go up with increased so-called “partying” by the young and immature. And the consequent drinking culture whereby people 35 still think it’s the coolest and most fun of all things to get drunk.
What is spelled out? It would be a HUGE document if everything were spelled out.
See the 9th and 10th.
See 1st and 2nd. Very clear to me.
1A tells what the CONGRESS may NOT do.
2nd tells everyone what every government may NOT do.
9 and 10 make it clear that not referring to something in the BOR or Constitution generally does not mean that it is OR is NOT a right.
I am sorry that your friend was killed but a drunk driver while sitting in his own living room, but that doesn’t give you the right to suspect all other drivers and subject them to searches without probably cause.
‘Then perhaps your alleged drunk-driving arrests going up coincided with the population going up, too.’
The nubers are real, not ‘alleged’.
“It also may go up with increased so-called “partying” by the young and immature. And the consequent drinking culture whereby people 35 still think it’s the coolest and most fun of all things to get drunk.”
Not entirely. The worst case of DUI involving fatalities in the nations history was a late 20’s or early 30’s redneck in a pickup truck going the wrong way on I 275 just outside of Cincinnati. 27 kids in a bus roasted alive as I recall. I remember witnesses testifying they could hear the screams....
I wouldn’t try citing that at a checkpoint...(chuckle)
‘I am sorry that your friend was killed but a drunk driver while sitting in his own living room, but that doesn’t give you the right to suspect all other drivers and subject them to searches without probably cause.’
Thanks.
My personal experiece wasn’t cited in the cases defending DUI checkpoints, so your point is moot. But I do appreciate the sentiments you expressed.
When a law that allowed the use of sobriety checkpoints was in force, the incidence of all crash fatalities was slightly greater (RR = 1.02, 95 percent CI: 1.01, 1.03). Similar results were obtained for deaths in automobiles and using miles driven as the denominator. However, among alcohol-related deaths, the direction of association was reversed (RR = 0.99, 95 percent CI: 0.97, 1.01) (table 4). Similar weak negative associations were found for alcohol-related deaths in automobiles and using vehicle miles as the denominator.
Emphasis mine.
I AM SORRY THAT YOU ARE OFFENDED BY THE USE OF THE WORD "SORRY" IN THE POST!
Uh, 1 guy’s accident shows us there was rampant drunken “partying” going on before the ‘60s?
BTW, there was no Interstate in the ‘30s.
Sometimes, you made it quite clear “I’ve been through this, so I know”.
Do you believe that random searches of homes or persons are ok?
I didn’t ask what the courts have ruled, do YOU think that random searches of homes and persons is ok?
Yes...or...no?
LOL
Ohhhh!
OK, you're real, but that in no way addresses your desire to make law based on anecdote.
‘Sometimes, you made it quite clear “I’ve been through this, so I know”.’
I’ve ‘been through’ this debate online for years, and it always ends the same way this one is, or will.
With DUI checkpoints enforced, and some posters decrying the death of the Constitution.
Its always the same in the end.
What is nice is for the most part I’m not being called a communist stooge, or worse....so far....(chuckle)
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