"Removing the rights of innocent people!!!!"
Wow, you'd think people were being pulled of the street, beaten with a stick and clapped in irons. By "removing the rights of innocent people" I take it you mean pulling them over and having them blow into a breath machine? Kinda like they are required to do now under a RIDE program? Those who blow a "pass" at a RIDE check are "innocent" aren't they? And yet they were compelled to blow into that awful machine all the same. How traumatizing.
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They must feel they are living in a fascist, totalitarian state!
Toughening penalities? I'm all for it. But you can't penalize them if you don't catch them. These measures will allow more drunk drivers to be caught, so I'm all for that, too. This nonsense about the police being required to 'stand up in court and explain why they made the stop' only is engaged
if the person FAILED the screening device test, then FAILED the subsequent breathalyzer test (failing the screening device is not, in itself, an offence).
Truly innocent people suffer no more inconvenience now than then - 10 minutes to blow into a machine - if that much. I can live with that crushing loss of "freedom" if it will save lives.
You may weep for the rights and freedoms of the guy who blows a fail on the random roadside test then blows double the limit on the breathalyzer, but I won't be weeping with you. I'll be cheering for the truly innocent families whose lives he WON'T ruin by driving - and crashing - drunk.
Jaeger