Posted on 09/30/2013 5:37:50 AM PDT by expat1000
What "law and order conservative" created prohibition? Are you talking Eliot Ness/Frank Nitty and friends? What?
MADD, another law and order conservative type whined and cried and got the .o8 passed. They created a whole industry of judges, cops, attorneys and prosecutors.
So MADD created a whole industry of judges, cops, attorneys and prosecuters??? Wow, even THEY don't think that they had THAT much power.
The ballot box showed WHO was tired of drunken drivers and the highest offender-group, males, 18-25, getting off with slaps on the wrist for drinking and driving.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY has an entire wing for the body parts of young males who have died driving the way that group drives. For the motorcyclists (almost ALL young males) they coined the term "donor-cycle" to demonstrate how that group of males are "prime donors" for body parts for the rest of the human family.
What had happened previously was that drunk drivers were not held accountable even when they caused accidents. The solution from MADD was to create a whole industry around DUI. The better response would have been to throw out BAC levels until an accident occurs. Punish a drunk driver who causes an accident with permanent drivers license revocation huge fines and imprisonment for many many years. This approach requires a victim. Thats the point. A victim.
Permanent driver's license revocation was suggested but turned down in California because the folks in SOUTHERN California HAVE NO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION and rely totally on the CAR. Since they have most of the voters in that state, they had their way.
Personally, I like that idea, but it won't happen in California, the third largest economy in the WORLD.
I have had quite enough of the Law and Order conservative.
Have you now? Well, if their counterpart, the non-Law and Order liberal were in charge, I BET you wouldn't like THEM either. Just a guess, not sure.
The color thing makes my head hurt...
So jail time huh? Why not. Lock up everybody that offends you.
Last time I checked the law used to punish these kids, the Sex Offender laws are used to protect children from minors. I have no earthly idea what this judge is doing.
“Bill Clinton was no conservative”
True he was not. But he attracted lots of conservative votes. He triangulated. The 100k cops on the street was a classic ploy to get the law and order conservative.
As far as libertarians go, unfortunately many have hung their hats on drug USE. I am pretty sure that folks who want to use drugs will use them. They always have. In Russia these idiots are mixing diesel fuel, bleach, Lord only knows what in their bathtubs and melting their faces off. Whatever, Darwin award for them. Lets see, billions of dollars later hows the WOD going? Oh yeah. We are still losing. WOD has given us no knock raids, armored cars in police paint jobs, and SWAT teams who look like the Big Red One infantry division. WOD and RICO has subverted the Bill of Rights; the 4th amendment has become a joke. So I think we can safely say the WOD is a massive expensive jobs program for Federal Employees and construction companies specializing in jail construction.
I don’t know how to label me, but I really am a big fan of Jefferson, Adam, Locke, Franklin, Washington. So however you want to say it.
Prohibition was a classic case of Law and Order and Morals. It is hard to label Conservative or Liberal back then. It was pushed through with the Women s Temperance movement, suffrage, etc. Was it an appeal for law and order, morals? Yes. Sort of reminds me of the Jerry Falwell Moral Majority Crowd, but certainly no clear modern label exactly fits.
Yes, I have had quite enough of Law and Order Conservatives. Live and let live, not everybody needs to be in jail. Exception includes violent criminals, i.e. armed robbery, murder, drunk drivers who cause accidents, plus non violent thieves, contract breakers, larcenist, swindlers etc.
Laws exist to give us freedom from violence and oppression. Laws when properly applied provide freedom, ensure that when a man plants crops he can reasonably be certain that he will be able to harvest the crops and take them to market without a bully taking his labor. When the Laws become the oppressor, as now, we have a real problem.
I didn’t fully comment and the post was getting long so broke it up a little:
“So MADD created a whole industry of judges, cops, attorneys and prosecuters??? Wow, even THEY don’t think that they had THAT much power. “
Clearly you are aware that the .08 BAC built law offices, Assistant DA offices, Bail Bond businesses all over the country. This is reality. It is what it is.
Oops, I meant children from adults.
They also removed the spine along with his testicles....
I forgot the Ignition Interlock companies, and the installers. LOL
Yes, I am. I am also aware that EVERY single thing we see on the boobustubus is a packaged, pre-thought out product for us to believe in, consume and wholehearted embrace.
Drunken drivers kill more people every year than all the soldiers we lost in Vietnam. I can sympathize with those folks who lost their loved ones to drunken drivers. I don't drink any more and I hate driving at night. I ALWAYS was out of the bars and ALMOST home a good 3/4 hour before the bars closed (2:00 A.M.) and thus avoided most of them. I was NEVER, EVER stopped for drinking/driving. I was NEVER that stupid.
How else would you and I know SO MUCH about that business?
"Dog" and "Beth" wouldn't have made it on to the 3:00 A.M. C-rated movies 20 years ago. Now they have a NAME and their own T.V. show.
As I recall, one of the shows that started it was America's Most Wanted. It was THE most HORRIBLE event in John Walsh's life that precipitated his show but his agony, anger and persistence started something HUGE and good.
God also gave us (most of us) a conscience. THAT is the REAL self-check on making, breaking and following the law. We can only ask God for the grace to follow His laws.
The rest is lawyer-talk.
What is so interesting is that we Americans have the freedom to rant and rave at how awful so many things are in this country. I’d like to see some of those complainers live in Bangladesh for a few weeks...no, just a few hours. We would really see some whining and moaning there. What a pit hole it is. We are just so dang lucky to live here.
So, who cares?
My head cares...
Take a pill and stop whining.
Oh dear, somebody is wounded. An interesting thing focus on given the nature of the debate up to this point.
I had thought we were having a decent debate up to know, but it’s just “nanner nanner boo boo” now.
Lol. No, just bored. NOT your fault.
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