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Re: [privacy] Highway safety
From: Blanchard_Michael () emc com
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:06:58 -0400
DUI checkpoints are unconstitutional if you ask me. It's one thing to SEE a drunk driver on the road and pull them over for driving erratically, but to make EVERYONE on the road stop and submit to a breathalyzer or even a rudimentary "check to see if the driver is drunk" is WRONG.... This is different from stopping everyone on the street looking for illegal drugs/weapons/whatever how? Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Loe [mailto:knobdy () gmail com] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:08 PM To: Dmitry Chan Cc: privacy digest mailing list Subject: Re: [privacy] Highway safety On 10/23/06, Dmitry Chan <dmitry.chan () gmail com> wrote:
...because their intoxication may lead to the loss of innocent life, no?
Yes, the loss of innocent life who have entrusted those lives in the PROFESSIONAL knowledge and experience of the driver/captain/pilot.
And, isn't that the same case with the drunk behind the wheel of an automobile who is *sharing* a highway with other drivers.
No.
> Not truck drivers or tanker ship captains. All of those folks are subject to company policies and government > regulations. And, what's the distinction? Civilian drivers of automobiles are subject to government laws and regulations as well. Why choose one set of laws to be arbitrarily more anti-privacy than the other? Or, is it because you happen to be affected by the one and not the other?
I would hazard to guess that I'm affected by both - but until I've committed a crime, I don't believe I need to deal with the police.
I guess the loss of privacy rights - even on the privacy list - isn't of much concern to anyone.
I still don't see any privacy violations in taking crippled drivers off the road and punishing them for stupidity...but, maybe you have a bone to grind with this particular law or your ankle locator is too tight and you're just cranky.
Uhmm...no. Not only have I never gotten a DUI/DWI, I've never committed a crime that would award me an ankle bracelet - but that's a common tactic of shortsighted folks. I believe it comes form a failure, on your part, to understand how anyone could possibly have a problem with a criminal law without first breaking the law. Never mind that we could all, including yourself, be criminals tomorrow if the government happened to pass a law that, for instance, made it a crime to use cryptography software...etc.. ONE unintended consequence: DUI checkpoints. If you can't figure it out from there, well, go with god, I don't know. No one can help you... _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] Highway safety, (continued)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Dennis Henderson (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Dennis Henderson (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Drsolly (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety David Lodge (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Drsolly (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Dennis Henderson (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Blanchard_Michael (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Blanchard_Michael (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Drsolly (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Drsolly (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Richard M. Smith (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety der Mouse (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Drsolly (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Dude VanWinkle (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 23)