Posted on 03/22/2006 10:40:15 AM PST by Daytyn71
The yankee editors of the Dallas and Fort Worth MSM papers actively support this type of official oppession.
No constitutional right trumps the agenda of "Public Safety". It's the best thing since "Interstate Commerce"
it should amaze me that so many of you think it is some form of government intrusion that you have no right to be drunk in public, but I am not.
Get a grip bigs. The laws we have on public drunks are based on being a public nuisance/ breaching the peace. No display/breach, no nuisance.
These cops were over the line, breaching the peace of the bar customers.
As for our founding fathers, up to the early 1870s, it was common for public pillorying for public drunkenness.
Those were clearly unconstitutional State or local 'laws'; just as is the texas law in question.
During the Civil war U.S. Grant had solders strapped spread eagle on wagon wheel for Public drunkenness.
Military courts are not subject to some constitutional restraints.
At no time has being drunk in public been a right; tolerated, yes, legal, no.
At no time has being unobtrusively drunk in public been a crime; Nuisance drunks are not tolerated, yes, but 'legally', drinking is not a crime.
Please don't confuse public tolerance for legal right.
Please don't confuse the power to enact public 'tolerance' regulations for a constitutional right to prohibit the harmless acts of individuals.
Neither Fed, State, or local governments can enact regulations that deprive people of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
......What taste better, the leather boots or the residue on your chin......
thats' tellin old BIGGIE....go get em' Laddie
The March of the Coercive Utopians continues unabated.
Waaaaaay back in high school, a group of us would hop in a car and head off for a night at the bars. On more then one occasion, a state trooper would pull us over and after shining the flashlight in each of our eyes, he would ask if any one of us in the car had less than two beers tonight. As if on cue, everyone would turn and point to Jeff who was, of course, sitting scrunched up in the backseat of the car, furthest from the steering wheel. The trooper would then "recommend" that Jeff should switch seats with the driver. After a two or three block escort, the trooper would turn off in another direction and we'd be on our merry way.
My how things have changed. Now you can't even drink in a bar of all places!
Oh, another Ron White fan!!! Me Too!!!!!
afterall, YOUR home is not their home......
.....They actually did something similar in Herdon, VA last year or the year before......
You are correct...it was at Ned Devine's Irish Pub....and the program was discontinued within 2 weeks...I am from Reston and USED to go to Ned's. I will stick to my watering hole (Lakeside Inn) where I know it is safe...I have a key to the back exit
Bigs needs Zot.
this is not a debate in favor of drunk driving at all......
Really? How about tied up dockside? Is that illegal too?
The liberals are wrong in saying that it is Halliburton and oil companies that run this nation. It's actually the insurance companies who do.
waaay back when I was in HS one could cruise around sipping on a cold beer legally. No, of course not drunk. We didn't have breath analyzers then...at least none that I ever heard.
Sure, teenagers had fatal crashes then too. Some were alcohol related and some involved teetotal sober negligence and/or plain lack of experience.
Whatever happened to individual responsibility? But more important, how the hell did we ever survive then living in such a free state?
Brother: I've got tiny wipers that clear the headlights in the rain.
Ron: I got a place in my van where I can f*** your sister.
LOL
I love your profile page! LOL.
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