[takenoprisoner]

This is gotta be one of the world's most facist stings ever devised. 2200 people arrested while sitting at the bar.

Just imagine all the lives ruined, not to mention the income generated by those this texas gestapo captured.

This is as unbelievable as it is unforgivable.

[CSM]

2,200x$500=$1.1M

[verity]

You should be pissed at the lawmakers instead.

[verity]

You should be pissed at the lawmakers instead.

[Willie Green]

Have you two posted bail yet?

[weegee]

Related thread (200+ posts):

Bar Sweep Sparks Controversy (Drunk People Arrested in Bars!!)

[Dashing Dasher]

Dang!

[Daytyn71]

I'm not a constitutional attorney but I believe that these arrests are unlawful under the 4th Amendment prohibiting illegal searches and seizures. A Bar, although a business, is still private property. Everyone who was arrested under this law should ask for a trial by jury (which they are entitled to under the Constitution) and countersue the City for unlawful arrest. Appeal any decisions in favor of the Gov't to the appellate courts (and possibly the Supreme Court)

The Courts will become overloaded and the City will not be able to pay to keep up with the caseload. The net effect I'm sure would be to change the law.

[JZelle]

Der Kommissar's in town!

[TheForceOfOne]

Soon they will come knocking on our doors in order to go through our homes confiscating weapons and looking for contraband from the good citizens who manage to slip these items passed the government camera's install around our homes for our protection.

[MEGoody]

I wasn't even aware the cops could arrest you for public intox as long as you were inside the bar and not causing a problem.

[PAR35]

This is gotta be one of the world's most facist stings

Are spelling rules fascist as well?

[Dashing Dasher]

Thank you for posting this.

It really shows how FReepers think.

Some actually feel FReedom is okay - as long as it doesn't bother me.
Others understand that argument can be used for anything.
We need to be careful when infringing on FReedoms anytime, anywhere.

Enforce the laws, fine - go out of your way to infringe - not okay!

[hosepipe]

Evidently; Chuck Norris (a Texas Ranger) can see drunk drivers even before they leave the BAR... MAN hes good..

[hosepipe]

Public drunkeness is illegal, tantamount to drunk driving, yet murdering your baby is legal..
Must be too much Mexican food.. Mexican food is makeing Texans ignert..

[chpmass]

Agreed. Glad these guys weren't around when I was in college. My entire fraternity could have been arrested on any given weekend.

[bigdcaldavis]

Last I checked, a bar is a PRIVATE establishment because you have to be at least 21 to even enter such an establishment. In that case, these charges hold NO merit whatsoever because these people were in PRIAVTE, not public. If this is allowed to stand, it could lead to a slippery slope whereyou can be arrested for being drunk in your own home.

[Galveston Grl]

Sounds like the town in Masshole I am stuck in for a few more months - but these liberals are going after parties in houses! At 9:45 four police cars screamed into my driveway because...guess....

I was hosting a party for seniors with FOUR other parents and the gestopo got a complaint on "noise." Mind you - this is winter in Masshole. All the windows and doors closed. All the doors covered by adults and all the "guests" scrutinized... Then this cop has the nerve to start yelling at the four parents who met him in driveway about daring to host a party for seniors!

You are not allowed to cuss on Freerepublic so I will not say what came forth from the parents' mouths. Here I thought i was moving to a conservative state to join my husband and Dallas is bothering people in bars - just in case they were thinking about driving drunk! This is the stuff of civil war. I don't like this country anymore.

[glasseye]

Bubba must need a new set of 'jack-boots'.

Think 'capital extraction'.

[TheLion]

Somehow I feel more than one public official will pay for this when the backlash comes.

[FrankR]

Follow the money, and...

You'll find the lawyers...

Follow the lawyers, and...

You'll find them looking for another CASH COW since the cigarette thing has run its course.

Before it's over, the Lawyers will be the only ones who are rich, and the only Americans who are free....