european idiocy.
I think it’s already been proven cellphones are more dangerous than alcohol.
Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be
much easier to deal with. (’Atlas Shrugged’ 1957)
Prohibition in a new guise.
Not many cops are out at night, you can’t get the killer drivers with the .20 & .30 if all of the patrolmen are at the station drinking coffee, staying out of the cold and booking .05 sober people.
Will this include testing all government employees during any car stop for any reason! If so, sounds like a good idea.
Seems they are not satisfied with the original premise of decreasing supposed drunk driving, and now are willing to lower the BAC just to keep up their statistics, revenue stream and persecution of citizenry.
I think we ought to have a few driving codes for police.
Driving While Fat Bastard
Driving While Shooting In the Car
Driving While Stuffing Face with Food and Drink
Driving While Using Sirens and Lights for Non-Emergencies just to get through an intersection cause I don’t want to wait
Any cops that drive around in a vehicle that has headlights/taillights out fine the officer double. He should take his own advice he gives to citizens to check the vehicle out before driving it.
the arrogance and big brotherish mentality of these guys has to end. How many cops would be corraled by this after hours coming home from a bar? Oh, that’s Ted, he’s a cop, don’t give him a ticket.
Cops want more business. It is a union thing.
Now they are trying to destroy the restaurant and bar industries.
The reason?
MADD
Mothers Against Drunk Driver.
DAMM
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
I’d like to know what the normal blood alcohol level is. I doubt that it gets to absolute zero. It is possible that we are getting into a range that will be triggered by a number of other chemicals, already in the blood stream.
Maybe he should move back to Cuba.
If true, this country is becoming fascist. And the cops were a bit draconian already.
If true, this country is becoming fascist. And the cops were a bit draconian already.
I don’t think it’s right to get a DUI after a single beer or something, but, just anecdotally I recently heard about a female friend who used to enjoy a Grey Goose on the rocks. She has dropped a lot of weight, and apparently got totally hammered by one when she tried it lately. Luckily she was not the driver at the time, since it was completely unexpected.
Rather than advocating for even more onerous oppresive laws that criminalize even more aspects of American lives I say start reducing some of the hundreds and maybe even thousands of nuisance criminal laws and get out of our every day lives. Forget the nanny state, we are fast turning into a totalitarian state.
Fortunately, we have now developed an ignition interlock device. Within a couple of years, they could be made to be standard equipment on all new vehicles. Technology is just solving one modern problem after another.
Criminalizing everyone and everything is in no way related to extracting ever greater amounts of revenue to feed the avarice of public sector employees.
It’s simply to protect us feeble-minded citizens from ourselves.
A commercial license in California the legal limit is .04 and so is it nationally for pilots and has been for many years..