When reason and logic elude you, go for the emotional gut shot. “Personalize it”, as Alinsky would say. The fact that you think using my aunt’s death as a weapon against me instead of dealing with my point speaks volumes about your argument.
And for the record, I don’t have to say anything to my aunt. Your 2 am broken-taillight/expired insurance/past due inspection/DUI checkpoint-shakedown would have done nothing to save her.
“Trying to elude arrest for drunken driving, young people use technology to keep each other informed about the location of sobriety checkpoints...”
That sentence alone speaks volumes about our current society.
This article isn’t about responsible people tweeting each other because they don’t want to be late for work due to being stopped at a police DUI checkpoint; it’s about using a form of commmunication to keep the police from arresting people that are involved in a criminal activity. In essence, these young people are glorifying criminal behavior.
History shows us that immoral behavior automatically leads to more government control (morals can only be based on God’s laws, if you let man decide morals, you’ll be subjected to man’s moral relativism).
It’s high time we start holding our fellow citizens up to a higher standard: i.e. “God, your family, your community and your country expect better from you!”
Until we return to a country that espouses Judeo Christian values, expect a cop on every corner, a metal detector at every school and government building entrance, a camera in every area of every building open to the public. Constitutionalists may not want it, but our morally blind citizens will DEMAND it in the name of public safety.
WPTG: regarding your comment on “personalize it”:
I’m sure if I lost a loved one because of someone’s irresponsible/criminal behavior, I would take it “personal”.
If we as a society took irresponsible/criminal behavior such as DUI “personal”, chances are your aunt very well might be alive today.