**UPDATE** OK, I went through the video. I still have a problem with it. I do have a problem with drunk drivers, but that is another issue. Today it is drunk drivers, tomorrow it will be...
Nope. Not for me.
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I haven't read the stories or watched the video yet, I'm heading out the door in a moment.
But - WTF??!! - just doesn't seem to cover the headlines.
LEO strapping people down and taking blood?
Oath Keepers, eh?
And you will permit these fucks to put their hands on you?
How about - no. You want my blood, you are welcome to mop up the crime scene after you zip me up in my body bag.
Folks, war has been openly declared.
We'll see if anything changes later, after I have had a chance to see the video and read more about what is going on in this story. But knee-jerk reaction? Just kill me on the street if you want my blood - strapping me on a table ain't happenin'.
Yeah, you cross one of my lines before I get strapped to a table. You cross that line if I even "THINK" you may intend to strap me to a table.
Here are two links:
Liberty & Lead, here.
Son of Liberty, here.
Kerodin
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My goodness! Strapping a fellow onto a table and forcibly drawing a blood sample seems a tad extreme when one stops and really ponders the situation.
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Signed,
Wide-eyed and Dangerous
Here in Florida, before the yankee came, it was perfectly fine to operate a motor vehicle while drinking a beer. It was quite common place as I remember. Of course it was also ok to have a rack with rifles and shotguns in the truck as well.
ReplyDeleteI have a real problem with the drinking and driving laws now. For sure the roadblock shit, and the blood alcohol levels are just ridiculous.
But that's just me I guess. Things were much better here before the yankee came.
My uncle drank and drove all the time, with no problems. He knew his limits and was quite capable even with a load of Old Crow in him. I agree with Denninger on this - laws against the "possibility" of perpetrating a wrong are unjust. But the Nanny State disagrees with me - the bastards.
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My father and uncle would drive from town to town in NC taking bets between the two of them as to who could drink the most beers during each trip.:)
DeleteThey took after my grandfather who was a big boozer and gambler. Once he was drinking and playing cards with his cronies when the subject of the election for the Raleigh Police Chief came up. Somehow, my grandfather took a bet that he could win it, which he did. However, he resigned after only 18 months, because he said he couldn't keep arresting his best friends, the bootleggers! This was in 1917.
Years later when he was on an extended drinking spree, my grandmother took over management of Panacea Springs Hotel outside of Littleton, NC. Once the doctor came and told my grandmother that my grandfather would have to be put in the hospital, but she didn't understand why. The doctor told her that my grandfather didn't even know where he was, and needed to dry out for a while!
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=837&highlight=koonce
Towards the end of the video the reporter says "its another show down between personal liberty and public safety". Once again Mr. Franklin's words are ignored for the "public good". I am against drunk driving, but the state has turned drunk driving into a billion dollar business. The average DUI here in Florida costs about $10,000 first offence and goes up about 25% the next time.
ReplyDeleteMr. Mullenax, the road blocks were invented to catch those that would not have been caught because they show no signs of driving impaired. Once stopped, all the police need is to SUSPECT that you have had a drink and you will either blow or go to jail. I know guys who did have a drink, were stopped, passed all their tests, but refused to blow still ended up in jail.
The police can blather all they want about "public safety", that is a ruse. ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.
CDP
Here in the Hoosier state, we used to be able to pick up a quart bottle of cold beer at the package store and drink it on the drive home from a hot day at work.
ReplyDeleteNothing tasted better, and such a morale booster and a way to reward oneself for an honest day's work...
I remember watching my father and an uncle doing just that, and I did it as well for a few years until the "open container" law went into effect.
It's the little things like this that remind me of the freedoms I have lost in my relatively short lifetime.
They have this law here in Idaho also. Say no to the breathalyzer and get thrown back in the car and they take you to the hospital and strap you down and take blood by force. I would guess, that any incidental contact by a (rightly) uncooperative person, would be treated as assault on an officer.
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As I keep saying, freedom in the USA is an illusion ......
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