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  • Wrong Target on Drunk Driving [New NC laws- costly penalties without conviction]

    12/13/2004 8:50:56 AM PST · by TaxRelief · 35 replies · 3,012+ views
    Carolina Journal Exclusive ^ | December 10, 2004 | By John Hood
    RALEIGH -- For three years now, I've been hearing a lot of complaints from civil libertarians in North Carolina about the Patriot Act, lengthy imprisonments of enemy noncombatants, and other abuses of government power in the war on terrorism. On occasion, I've agreed with them. Now, it's time for all people of good faith who've worried about such abuses to come out against a bundle of similarly questionable proposals to fight the war against drunk driving. Earlier in the year, media reports showed that a surprisingly large number of North Carolinians charged with driving while impaired (DWI) were acquitted at...