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To: Hunble
Drunk driving laws, when there is no victim, are an outstanding example of "potential crimes." You are declared to be a criminal, not for any harm to another person, but because "YOU MIGHT, JUST MAYBE, UNDER AN UNUSUAL CONVERGENCE OF EVENTS, CAUSE AN ACCIDENT!"

Driving on public roads is a priveledge and not a right. There's a distinction there. We all pay for our public roads to be built, for use by all of us. We dictate the rules by which we want our roads used.

If you have your own private parking lot or long driveway I would argue that you should be allowed to drive as drunk on those as you wish, since it's your place and not paid for by the rest of us for use by all of us. See the distinction?

88 posted on 08/17/2007 12:28:19 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle
Driving on public roads is a priveledge and not a right.

Outstanding! You can provide us Freepers with the exact quotation in the Federal or State Constitutions that granted the government this power?

Yikes, you are sounding like a Liberal or even a Communist!

89 posted on 08/17/2007 12:32:22 PM PDT by Hunble (Islam is God's punishment!)
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To: Cementjungle

>>long driveway I would argue that you should be allowed to drive as drunk

The only problem with that is creeping incrementalism has now made it kosher for cops to bust you in your driveway inside your stationary car. Sweet, isn’t it?

The length of the driveway being immaterial.


90 posted on 08/17/2007 12:36:03 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Cementjungle

Driving drunk is a lot harder than most people think, otherwise we’d never know anyone was doing it.


104 posted on 08/17/2007 12:54:46 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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