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To: Above My Pay Grade
Can you please cite cases where “stone cold sober” individuals were convicted of drunk driving? It might happen on very, very rare occasions, but people also get wrongly convicted for murder. Should we make murder legal to eliminate the potential for false murder convictions?

This is the standard argument of nanny-staters who wish to bargain away our rights in exchange for a little perceived safety. Next, I expect you to come back with "If just one live can be saved, then these new laws will be well worth it..."

People like you will simply not be happy until we live in a police state where everybody is subject to roadblocks and search & seizure at any time.

39 posted on 10/11/2010 8:22:33 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 55 days away from outliving Curly Howard)
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To: SamAdams76
People who expect others to cite things for them are quite annoying. I work in a prison full of guys busted for .090 BAC violations. So then it gets into first offense, dealing drugs, yadayadayada. You can't reason with people who are conditioned by fear. Because of confidentiality laws, I can't give more specifics. The libs always have us coming and going.

Bottom line, the elites fear drunks. Many drunks are worthy of this fear. They shouldn't be on the roads. But we aren't talking about drunkenness here, we are talking about small consumption of legal alcoholic beverages before driving.

If they were truly wanting to stop drinking and driving, all bars should be closed immediately. Hyperbole of course, but it shows you the hypocrisy of our ruling fanatics. Let them get drunk and kill Mary Jo Kopechne or crash into the Capitol and it's no big deal. Let us drink four beers when we weigh two hundred pounds and the DUI special unit gets involved.

44 posted on 10/11/2010 8:31:01 AM PDT by Luke21
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