Comments on: There will be blood, at DUI checkpoints

By: adamg1

adamg1 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:55:13 +0000

lol i hope this keeps happening its keeps me employed lol

By: TOO BAD

TOO BAD — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:23:03 +0000

Hey, Nazi Germany all over again !!!

The “Capt.” is nothing but a moron for proposing this method to catch DUI drivers.

The “Chief Judge” has a poor sence of judgment for even meeting with theSE goose-stepping brigades…”a neutral and detached judge” right? lol…what a joke…WHAT A JOKE….

Somebody ought to get out there tonight and bring their video cameras to record the real episodes….LEO’s are known to “forget” and trivialize what really happens at the scene when testifying in Court…especially when the defendant’s show up with 2 black eyes, broken limbs, and ruptured testicles, and are charged with resisting arrest WITHOUT VIOLENCE.

WE BETTER KEEP OUT EYES OPEN AND THE CAMERAS ROLLING TO KEEP THE NAZIS IN CHECK !!!

By: susan best

susan best — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:12:37 +0000

By native palm beach

Feb 27, 2009 12:08 AM | Link to this

I’m just happy the drunks will be caught and ajudicated,before an innocent citizen becomes a DOA.Drunks have no rights when they drive drunk!!!

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:39:52 +0000

Error correction: That is until the backdoor flies OPEN with bored souls on THE make. (A concept that originates from some gnostic texts…)

Don’t worry, I’m done now.

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:32:09 +0000

I think I may have changed my mind. My resistance is obviously well-noted and outspoken. But I think I’ve made many good points that should be listed out and re-written for clarity (stripped of emotion, etc.) Ultimately, a car is heavy machinery that should only be operated by humans in excellent mental and physical condition. And DUI probably is the best place to start. But we shouldn’t stop there. Medication and fatigue is a major culprit behind car accidents. Ultimately, this is what we’re talking about. My concern, of course, is regulation. If we take this to its end, civilization will be unrecognizable to us in just a few generations. Either hindsight will find us as struggling cavemen or we ourselves will have pity for the new generation of robotically, over-regulated human beings whose liberties have been greatly diminished comparatively. They live longer, yes; but will they “live” better? What’s the cost of road safety? But, like I said, maybe those for this new checkpoint regimine are right. Perhaps, the PRIVILEDGE of driving should be stressed, leading to a stripping of that tradional “freedom of the road.” I can see smaller cars with exponentially more saftey devices, new trends in public behavior, a new, more voluntary prohibition coupled with “brave-new-world” privacy standards, an Asimov nightmare: what have we got to hide if we all do the same things in the dark? We are safe. Safe. Safe… So safe that should we ever have a Second Coming, he’ll offer nothing in comparison. We will be compelled to reject Him. Or will He instead just saunter up to this new throne of our own creation and learn that, surprise! this is exactly what He’s been waiting for? A safe new Kingdom in Heaven and on Earth. An eternity of this equilibrium. That is until the backdoor flies with bored souls on make.

By: John

John — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:03:42 +0000

Jim, Steve, et al, sincerely, all due respect and sympathy, this is not about DUI. Any sane person would agree that its wrong and horrible etc. Some sane people would throw in that we all do it (honest people will anyway) and that “D,” according to legal standards could even be “tipsy.” Holier than thou peeps aside, try going anywhere, to any social function, restaurant etc. and get out without a buzz, etc. Not to mention prescription medication, fatigue, etc. There are thousands of ways to die on the road, tens of thousands of ways to die. DRIVE DEFENSIVELY. This is about what we allow police to do to otherwise innocent civilians. This is about government intrusion. Are there not enough cell phones on the road? But when you’re done with “drunks” will you not target texting next. Come on - you will! And NO ONE will blame you. I hate texting drivers. Want to run them off the road…BUT they’re calling in the swerving drivers to the police, yes? Are there not enough highway patrol…? Roadblocks and checkpoints just barely scraped out of the Supreme Court as permisable. I also don’t want to be bothered by taking off my shoes at airports. LEAVE ME ALONE is what I say to government institutions. I’ll handle that drunken bum on my own. But this goes much further than any plaint so far offered. Some have touched on it. PROHIBITION. You want the streets rid of DUI, that is the only way. EVERYONE drinks, smokes, does some kind of drug and is sick and tired and insane in some way. You safety creeps are not going to find Utopia by taking away our civil liberties. I know you’ve had pain. You don’t want to know what kind of pain I’ve had. WE ARE ALL IN HELL. Stop playing the victim card. We’re all victimized and the Today Show loves it. People who are right now plotting to take the very best of everything including your souls ared doing so while you people busy yourself with amber alerts. You can’t have it SAFE. Arm yourselves. Teach your children well. In fact, DO NOT give them the car keys. Honestly, do teenagers need to drive? So far, that’s the age group that’s causing most of the tears, no? YES! Honestly, you really have to be kidding me that you would allow a group of government employees to decide whether or not I’m cooperative on my to or from my social engagements. Arrest and prosecute those who’ve CAUSED a problem, not that potentially could cause a problem. Believe me, I sympathize. How many times have I discerned a potential problem and have had to count to ten. But you are not going to get rid of drunk driving unless you can start activating a general respect in society, and judging by the way we treat prisoners, that’s not going to happen. Judging by police brutality, nope…Judging by our education system — etc etc…that’s right, this is a systemic problem that will be used against you. Blood now, hair samples later; internment camps, debtors prisons, etc. WATCH what happens when the government becomes bigger and more out of control than they already are. STAY OFF the road if you are so damned afraid of drunk drivers. AND don’t let your children drive AT ALL. Other than that, please don’t paint me or others like me as monsters who don’t sympathize with your loss. You are right about what my reaction would be. I would be on your side, but I would also have lost an objective perspective. I do wish the problem could be solved easily, but it will not be solved with blood tests on the road side. It will be worsened in a roundabout way - it’s that roundabout way that will get us worse than these senseless tragedies, we will lose the country we’re driving around in. BESIDES, if you refuse a breathilizer, aren’t you screwed anyway. I know, I know, it’s not enough - proves my original point. I’m going to write my senator and tell h/er that everytime I walk around in NYC, I’m worried that someone’s poorly installed a/c unit is going to fall on my head, therefore, I want home inspections to continue round the clock until I know that I will never die by an a/c unit falling on my head. Oh yeah, also, I don’t want to fall through a subway grate, also, no stray bullets, falling satelite debris, I don’t care what we have to do. (I know! NO MORE SAT TV!) That’s right, get rid of it. No more Hostess cupcakes that could cause me diabetes, no more death. I want to live forever. Boy in the plastic bubble time. No driving, drugging, making love, breathing, etc. death to death by death. What we need is a cop for every citizen. To the grocery, to the mall, with the power of a Kung Fu Jesus, no disease, certainly no mugging. We all want those loved ones who have died tragically to come back. We wnat to somehow fix what caused their deaths. We need all the power and conviction we can muster, and we’ve learned that it comes easiest with that pure, honest ANGER that coursed through are veins when we suddenly became victims. NO MORE, we said. No more. And everytime someone came by intellectualizing, rationalizing, our eyes destroyed them where they stood for being foreign to our undeserved anguish. But we know what came of that. And, well, sometimes, it has changed the world. But you are telling me your world change has to do with high-paid babysitters?

After all this, I don’t know, maybe you’re right.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:03:05 +0000

What is wrong is drunk drivers who continue to slaughter innocents on our roadways. I guarantee anyone who loses a loved one to a drunk driver will gladly support this initiative. What is the difference between an innocent person killed by a drunk driver and an innocent person killed by a robber, or burglar, or any other kind of criminal. Does the surviving family feel any less grief because the killer was just a drunk driver? No, I don’t think so. If anyone wants to avoid the Sheriff’s proposal, it is easy…don’t drive drunk.

By: stupid

stupid — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:39:48 +0000

if drinking and driving kills so many people, why is alcohol still LEGAL?

again….

if drinking and driving kills so many people, why is alcohol still LEGAL?

By: Steve Kirkpatrick

Steve Kirkpatrick — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:19:07 +0000

Geez, I can’t believe the idiots that try to over-intelectualize and/or trivialize this issue. It’s just too damn simple people! What’s so hard about getting the point thru the, “oh so intelligent” head of yours that if you’re impaired, GET A CAB!!! That’s all anyone is saying. All of the rantings and dribble about the constitution adds up to nothing. No one is trying to take away anyone’s rights. I and my family and you should and do have the RIGHT to expect that no one is impaired on the road, and if they are, they should go to jail. And yes, you’re right, I don’t care at all how the PBSO or any other authority removes drunks off the roads as long as they do so. Ask anyone that has lost someone to this idiotic and completely preventable crime and they will agree. As I stated before, all it would take would be one incident from a drunk driver that hurt one of your family members and all of you pseudo-intellectuals would be crying for justice from the police and the judiciary.

By: John

John — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:09:47 +0000

In the 1770’s, a minority of colonists laid waste to their own country’s soldiers. History books convey a different story, of course. They make it sound like there were already two seperate countries, each with their own armies, etc. There were the Redcoats vs. the Americans. In reality, only a third of these English colonists were on board with murdering the troops. Today, this highly-celebrated American Revolution would NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. Apart from all the lies and deceit, the evil politicians and their human chessboards, the banksters and their puppets (Bush, Obama, Clinton, etc.) the one thing that makes American wars worth even thinking about is the ideals we rest on. And that is that apart from our troops merely surviving, they come home with a deep sense of pride for having contributed - despite the murder - to our freedom. It was worth it for freedom. So yeah, let’s now bend over and let the moral majority convince the politicians that their votes rest on their ordering the cops to do something they don’t want to do and we don’t want done. I know that some of you think you want this, but you offer no end to it. What’s next? You don’t care. Just get drunks off the road, no matter the means - the end will justify it. And that is why America is in this extremely sad state. If we’re going to buy into the patriotism, this “American” paradigm - and I’ll bet most of you wouldn’t dare challenge it - then let’s understand it’s true gravity and stop blaming foreigners who at the very least are blessed with a more accurate perspective. NO ONE wants inebriated people on the road. But we have a greater duty to do as citizens then obey the nuances of each and every changing law or edict. We have to STAND for our LIBERTY.