Posted on 12/31/2008 2:53:07 PM PST by Ron Jeremy
SamAdams: "My cop friend told me that if I had told him I had a couple of beers, there would have been a 100% chance of him pulling me out of my car (in front of my wife) and placing me under arrest for DUI."
These postings are diametrically opposed. See if you can figure out where. :-)
Happy New Year!
Returning the license would be appropriate. Stopping driving would constitute voluntary servitude, which is both illegal and immoral.
Finally....someone states what the original article was really about. Thanks.
So many are trying to make it at "DUI - Pro or Con" thread, when it should just lay in the background of the real question.
Even the esteemed NeverWasACongressman failed to respond to the philosophical questions the article eschews.
They used to hire peace officers to keep the peace.
God, I miss that.
When he sits down at that screen he IS driving multiple weapons. Just place two aircraft on a collision course, and all that MAY prevent a tragedy is TCAS.
Your analogy sucks, CM.
I beg to differ with you. Coolbreeze grew up in Delaware and I spent 21 years there, moving there weeks after the 1982 DUI laws went into effect, and as bad as those were, they only became worse in the ensuing years. Tourists only THINK the laws aren't for the locals.
I know!
That's a shame, but as former locals, we know better.
You may want to drift back to the meaning of the thread. If anyone shows up drunk to work or on acid for that matter is a new topic.
He did have the beers, but he didn't tell the cop he did. From his post:
“I got caught up in a roadblock a few years ago in South Boston. I had had a couple of beers at a restaurant but was absolutely not under the influence. Nevertheless, when the cop shined the flashlight in my face and asked me if I had had anything to drink, I lied to him and said that I had had nothing to drink.”
Gads! You're almost as cynical as I am! :-)
Yet another infringement problem.
Plus, no auto safety inspections.
Just as you get to the stateline from Ohio or Illinois, the truckers lay rubber and people get visibly excited.
Isn't anyone going to mention the TSA? If you want to fly, they can search you up one side and down the other, detain you for hours or even days, and confiscate anything they damn well please.
By simply doing business with an airline (buying a ticket for travel), my 4th amendment rights vanish.
And don't tell me it's a privilege to fly. It is a willing buyer (passenger) and a willing seller (air carrier). You can charter a Lear jet and there is no TSA there to hound you.
The TSA security checks have become no different than DUI roadblocks. They can pull you aside and hound you all they want, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Your papers please...
I'm afraid you are right...
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
He has "Potomac Fever" bad.
I used to respect him, but recently, he sounds like a RINO congressman posting on here.
Guess that's all he wants to be, these days.
As a tourist I know what I see. Those bulls are out to nail DC people. Sure they nail some locals from time to time, but that’s just a matter of probability ~ if you hang around the place all the time something’s bound to happen!
So who, exactly, under the US Constitution, has the power to confer these privileges?
It’s not like the Constitution is unclear on this point. Article 1, Section 9 specifically states:
“No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States:...”
The government can NOT create seperate classes of citizens. ALL citizens have the same rights. The most they can do is RESTRICT rights, and then only under limited conditions.
Just because someone repeats long enough that your right to eat or to defend yourself is a “privilege” and not a “right” don’t make it so.
Many jobs have terrible consequences for failure to perform them properly. If I lack the right skills and perform poorly, and a pilot loses his life, should I be executed? After all, I SHOULD have realized that I lacked that skill, in your mind.
But you, among so many others, are trying to make it a "DUI" thread....and it just ain't.
Let me stress what SamAdams said further. He said “he was absolutely not under the influence” at that time, so he should have had no problem with walking the line and such.
However, if he was under the influence, then he had something to fear about walking the line.
Get it?
Halfwits are better than no wits.
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