the spiral
Like intent, facts no longer matter in cases of law.
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March 8th, 2010 at 11:33 am
He says that we might as well live under a fifth-century barbian king, but I disagree. Something tells me the average barbarian would understand if you took a knife to him, and might even get a kick out of fighting you off. He wouldn’t cluck his tongue and have you impaled “for your own good”, he’d do it because it was awesome and he was the king and he could do that sort of thing. They tended to be very up front about things.
I think I’d prefer that.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:26 am
..And so it goes.
Candy Lightner, who founded Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, quit the group back in 1985, saying it had become “more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned.”
MADD, like Handgun Control Inc., and so many other “for your own good” organizations, became a money machine. When the government starts funneling taxpayer dollars at you, you keep ‘doing the Lord’s work’, even if your original goals have been met and exceeded—even when your organization’s founder quits in disgust. If the organization accepts the success of their crusade, the money quits flowing, and people are out of a job. If law enforcement revenues go down, they must be recouped somewhere else (which costs money in the meantime, as they shift focus and update training.)
.10 percent BAC has become .08 in most places, and yet MADD is pushing—slowly— for even more stringent standards. And of course, we now have DUI checkpoints, which are supposed to be unconstitutional in the first place—but WAIT, there’s MORE!! That little invasion can now be a springboard for a giant fishing expedition through your entire person, possessions and vehicle, essentially based on the officer’s feeling that something didn’t seem quite ‘right’ about you.
“Papieren, bitte?” Barbarian kings, indeed.