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To: BlueStateDepression; mallardx
When driving is added to the context things change. Do you think that you have a right to drive drunk?

You don't have a freak'in clue what you are talking about. No one has advocated driving drunk. Apparently, you don't understand or can't appreciate the difference between driving drunk and driving with a BAL in access of an artifical limit that may or may not correlate with a person's ability or inability to drive a motor vehicle. With regard to your other remark to "Mallardx," I have news for you: Cops lie all the time and as a result, they often require people to "blow" even if they pass the field sobriety tests. How do they gey away with it? Like I said, they lie, i.e., "He had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath," "she was unable to walk a straight line," "he slurred his words," etc. The cops can get away with lying because often they are the only witness other than the accussed and who are you going to believe, a cop or a "drunk guy." Well, my city finally did something about the lying cops and installed audio/video equipment on the cop cars. And guess what? The number of arrests are way down, and the number of convictions are way up.

96 posted on 03/08/2006 10:54:29 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos
Apparently, you don't understand or can't appreciate the difference between driving drunk and driving

Ummmm, that would be established at .08.

Cops lie all the time and as a result, they often require people to "blow" even if they pass the field sobriety tests.

So do people, and your point is? All cops should be treated as liars? If you have a cop treating you improperly then by all means BUST EM.

I support cameras in cop cars, It is best for cops and for people they deal with. I would like to ask you....how many of those folks that are convicted now would make the same case that the cop was just lying....at the time when there was no cameras?

Cops are not the only thing needed to convict, which,again, is a means to BACK BAC rather than to oppose it.
105 posted on 03/08/2006 11:09:42 AM PST by BlueStateDepression
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