[DoughtyOne]

highway checkpoint - shades of 1930s Germany

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[Dr Warmoose]

Just because I am in one of those moods...

Could some vocal zealot of the Libertine/Libertarian Party tell the rest of us if he/she is for this policy of "Prior Restraint" regarding drunk driving. For isn't the driver tooling around town drunk doing so in the privacy of his own automobile? Also, coining a pet phrase of the Libertine/Libertarian Party, (original: "I can swing my fists as much as I like, but my rights to do so ends at your nose.") "I can drive around drunk as much as I like, but my rights to do so ends at your car's bumper."

[Constitution Day]

NC ping!
Please FRmail me if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.

[billbears]

In addition to cracking down on impaired drivers, officers last week issued 3,920 seat belt and 619 child passenger safety violations

I see Giddy's plan for instant funds is in full effect. Thanks Giddy!!

[microgood]

Sounds like North Carolina is a Constitution free zone.

[lelio]

officers last week issued 3,920 seat belt and 619 child passenger safety violations.
Click it or Ticket violations are $86 here in WA state and are a big money maker. How much are they in NC?

[willieroe]

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer's new, unmarked patrol car was struck minutes after a July 4 drunken driving checkpoint with one of the state's breath-alcohol testing mobile units, better known as BATMobiles, had ended. A female driver hit his vehicle and fled the scene but was soon apprehended. Her breath-alcohol content (BAC) measured .12. She was arrested for DWI, hit and run, and no operator's license. No one was injured.

Since there are no stopped female drunk drivers in the commercial running in my area, perhaps she didn't believe the campaign was meant for females....

[jaz.357]

I Love the Outter Banks.... http://www.countdowntokittyhawk.org/

[Indrid Cold]

"Statewide, law enforcement officers arrested a total of 1,137 motorists for driving while impaired (DWI) during the second week of the summer "Booze It & Lose It" campaign. That includes 115 impaired drivers under the legal drinking age of 21. Since the campaign began on June 26, a total of 1,907 DWI arrests have been made."

Uh huh. And how many do they normally arrest?

[verity]

Lunatic Libertarian Alert!

[lwd]

This must be Easley's solution to the buget deficit.

[Xenalyte]

Boy, if they were drinking Michelob Ultra, they'd have to take on a boatload to even catch a buzz.

[BluH2o]

Again an excellent example of "Mission creep". First there were lap top seat belts, installed as a practical safety measure, left up to the discreation of the driver as to whether one used it or not. Then came the over shoulder model along with stronger warnings to drivers to use them. Then states started passing laws that required you to wear a seat belt, you could be fined if you were pulled over for some other violation and weren't buckled up. Now it's a stand alone violation allowing police to pull you over if they observe you not wearing a seat belt.
Most states now consider drivers that blow an .08 on the sobriety test legally intoxicated. This threshold has been lowered to the point that if you go out to dinner and have a couple of glasses of wine or beer a driver can be hit with a DUI if stopped on the way home. The "nanny state" mentallity prevails.

[FourtySeven]

Well, I wouldn't consider myself a "Libertine" by any stretch of the imagination, but I have to agree with anyone who says this is wrong. It is an anathema to the concept of "innocent until proven guilty". I personally think in another 30 years, we'll start seeing more road blocks for much lesser offenses, all justified by the criminals they do catch.

Bottom line: Does it catch more drunk drivers than simply pulling obvious "weavers" off the road? Probably does. But if that's really what this rationale comes down to, then why don't we have permanant road blocks on every road?

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[Sloth]

Amendment IV -- The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

[Darth Reagan]

And we wonder why it took so long to catch Rudolf.