I think Madd mothers sucks and the level now is too low.
The feds bribe the states to do a lot of things, Seat belts, helmets for motorcycles. legal drinking age of 21. Its a damned shame a Marine cant drink a beer at 19. As long as he stays off the road he should be able to have a brew.
I am not speaking of the occasional drinker who gets caught after a glass of wine.
There are professional drunks out there, you and I both know it, Most of us have friends who drink every day. I have a friend who wakes up and would blow a .08. These people are alcoholics who refuse help and refuse to stop driving. What good is it to put these people in jail so you and I have to feed them. Crush their damn cars. That should send them a message.
I am speaking of the guy with DUI’s up the ying yang who refuses to stop driving. Take his damned car and crush it.He doesnt belong on the road.
I think we’re at least mostly on the same page. I agree with all your positions except you don’t say what you think of the federal bribery.
I think it’s not OK on this issue and not OK on any other issue. If the feds have to slip in a bribe, it’s something they don’t have the authority to mandate. If they’re using tax dollars to bribe the states to do something they can’t mandate, they’ve overtaxed us. They paying our state legislators to do things they might not otherwise do, things we don’t want, and they paying them with OUR money, extracted in amounts large enough that they have some left over to use on issues in which they have no authority.
And I have no problem incarcerating or smashing the cars of the hard core types you refer to, but those types generally blow like a 0.15. If someone did that repeatedly, proven with criminal level due process (not asset forfeiture “we want it and you can’t prove it’s yours” due process), and the car they were in belonged to them, I say crush it.
” Crush their damn cars. “
Destroying perfectly usable property is just stupid. It makes society as a whole poorer. They should seize them and resell them and then give taxpayers a refund.
What if a drug dealer buys an office building? Are you going to blow it up just because the owner was a criminal.
Jeez, the whole world has gone insane, starting with law enforcement officers.
But thats who it will effect. Government bureaucrats have NO common sense. They will apply any law on the books so that the people who get screwed the most will be minor offenders. The real criminals always anticipate getting caught, so for instance, in this case, the real drunks will all be driving $200 junkers. It will be the ordinary social drinker who drives a nice car that will pay the price for your moral indignation.
Be careful what you ask the government to do, because the only thing you can count on the government to do well, is to screw up everything they do. The victim of your moral outrage could be you.