OK let me start by saying that I do NOT drink and drive ; in fact I don't even drink a drop of alcohol if I am driving. I do drink but ONLY at home or if some one else (who has NOT been drinking!) is driving.
Also, I am ALL FOR taking drunk drivers off the road; in fact I do not feel that the penalties for those caught are strict enough.
However, why are drunk driving check points not considered unconstitutional? More specifically against the 4th amendment?
It seems to me that the government has no right whatever to stop people at random like that?
It seems like the cops waiting outside of a bar would be ok? After all people are usually drinking in a bar and I would be ok with people being stopped when driving away from a bar? That would make more sense?
How are the random check points legal? Doesn't this kind of reak of facism?
2007-12-21
22:47:24
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