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From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal
Subject: Re: Roadblocks
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Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 10:56:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 10:56:58 1984
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  One way to discourage drunk driving is to impose HEAVY fines on those
arrested for just driving drunk (i.e., not involved in an accident) and to
impose prison sentences on those drunk drivers involved in accidents (this
could include sentences equivalent to those for 1st degree murder when deaths
ocurr). Revocation of the offender's license would be standard in either case
with the understanding that the revocation would be permanent if the offender
was subsequently arrested for driving without his license or on a second DWI
charge. 
 I want drunk drivers off the road as much as anybody else does but I am not
willing to forgo my Constitutional rights (or put up with the inconvenience)
to do it. First it's giving up the gaurentee against illeagel search and
seizure to benefit society, next thing you know we'll be expected to give up
some other right to benefit scoiety. Tyranny does not come upon a people over
night; it's a gradual process that must not be allowed to take it's first step
so that will not one day walk all over a nation. I would rather leave to my
children a world that contains some risks than one that has no freedom.
-- 

                          Yrs. in Fear and Loathing,        
                         DW @ ...!ihnp4!tellab1!heahd

Thus always to tyrants.                                  Won't get fooled again!