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Old 06-28-2013, 06:36 PM  
Sarah_Jayne
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
In my opinion the police should not be able to force you to take a breathalyzer or draw blood.
The whole thing is becoming more and more a money scam.

Blood/alcohol level is already so low that if you have a couple of shots and a beer you get a DUI (and then the insurance company cashes in).
And now they want to lower it even more!

Like everything...it's all about money. And allowing the cops to have all this power over citizens is just part of it.

It's like when I see the motorcycle cops here in Vegas. They are out and about everyday busily pulling over soccer moms in their mini-vans for driving 40 in a 30 mph zone.
I don't even see them as "police officers". I see them as revenue collectors for the city and the insurance companies (who raise the already too-high rates when you get a ticket).

This country needs a "reset" button.

Cops need to be working on REAL crimes. And shouldn't have the ability to search you and even go inside your body (via breathalyzers and drawing blood).

I know everyone is getting used to being treated like this and everyone is apathetic about it. But I am not one of those people.

In my mind, it goes against everything I was taught about "America" and "Freedom" when I was a kid in school.
Searching people at airports, building Walls on the borders, invading other countries, spying on citizens, and now forcibly drawing blood from people...sounds like all the "evil" things we were taught about the big bad "communists" in the Soviet Union when I was a kid.

Funny how attitudes have changed.
Spend nine years looking after a husband left disabled due to a drunk driver and then bury him for complications related to that accident and then talk to me about how bad it is to lower the level.
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