Smart Guy
in the early morning on Wednesday, the 21st of December 2005 by Chad
Letters to the Editor…
Logically, how can anyone be against the USA Patriot Act’s renewal and not be against random roadblocks? My rights are violated every Friday and Saturday night. So the federal government might want to see what books I read at the library or what Web sites I view. That’s fine with me. It seems like small potatoes compared with randomly blocking roads and ordering citizens to roll down their windows so that local police can check for anything they want.Seriously, liberals want the government to have power. They are all for mandatory seat belt and helmet laws, gun control and universal health care. How can they be worried about civil rights when they spend time trying to take them away.
If you are for random roadblocks to stop people from driving drunk, then please shut up about the Patriot Act and how it violates your rights. You forfeited your rights a long time ago. Please leave important decisions like this to the grownups.
David Eck, Wilmington
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December 21st, 2005 at 9:58 am
actually had fun driving a really drunk pal thru a sobriety checkpoint. We roll up to the check point, officer taps on window and asks if we’ve been drinking. I admit to three beers over the past three hours, my pal says “yup, I’ve been doin’ shots all night.” Officer asks us to pull over and my pal responds “once you tell us your count.”
Seems they can’t actually “randomly” pull people over. They have to have a count (every third car, every fourth car, etc) so they’re not profiling. Note that “every car” is a legal count.
Officer responds “I can’t tell you our count, please drive along.”
It’s good to be the designated driver for a Federal Court judge :-)