i have found maybe half a dozen people on this site who think for themselves. the rest are cops or think like cops. as a journalist, i learned to think for myself. i tied barack obama in to this local issue on drinking and driving because he has tipped his hand that socialism and a socialist attitude, meaning individuals have little or no rights, is part of his agenda. all politics are local, and start with the mayor and go up to county administrator, council members, county board of supervisors, governor, and then into congress and u.s. senate. the people who don't understand this, sadly, are the uneducated or perhaps undereducated types that post blogs on this site without knowing the facts of which they speak.
chely, i was trying to be a gentleman and give you the benefit of the doubt. obviously, you are not the type to think outside the box which is sad. the future of our country depends on right-thinking citizens who do think ahead and plan for a better future for all of us.
believe it or not, chelly and i are on the same wavelength. but while the state legislature is putting this new plan into effect to keep serious repeaters from doing damage to themselves and others off the streets, they should also change the justice system so local police officers have far more options on what to do when they pull over border-line cases. when i say borderline, i am talking about someone who has just had that one or two drinks, who are not seriously impaired and who just want to go home after a hard day of studying or at work or even looking for a job. THIS IS THE AMERICA WE LOVE AND LIVE IN. LET'S START TREATING OUR CITIZENS RIGHT!
the justice system in missouri and elsewhere is all about money. the attorneys understand this, the legislators who make the laws understand this, and my question is, when will the voters understand this and do something about it? america is on the same road that poland and czechoslovakia took in the 1930s and 40s when they allowed their governments to be seized by communism. is this what we want in this country? because if you don't want it, you had better put the brakes on the barack obama administration and the police powers that are making laws to affect everything you do, from the time you get out of bed until you retire to your bedroom.
dogman and people like him just don't get it. america is a land of diversification. some of us enjoy a beer, a glass of wine, a cocktail or even some of that good missouri moonshine. others don't. but the people are getting tired of supporting a justice system that only succeeds in putting money into the pockets of arresting officers, bailbondsmen, attorneys, judges, bailiffs and undertrained guards who have the keys to steel cells that clang shut in the nut, while the rest of us are sleeping. it certainly wasn't this way in the 1940s and 50s, when law enforcement officers had the option of either taking you to jail or giving you a warning and sending you to an all-night diner for coffee if they smelled alcohol on you. do we really want a Police State mentality in America? wake up, fellow citizens, and pressure your elected and appointed leaders to do the right thing for the majority of the people!
to stanleyl's question on what police should do when they stop a driver who has been drinking...i say, give the cop more authority on whether to take that person directly to jail or let him go to a nearby coffee shop to get settled. there are degrees to drinking, just as there are degrees to anger and pain suffered when you lose somebody close. a person who might have had a couple of beers with friends acts a certain way, and somebody who finished off a couple of six packs or a bottle of scotch or tequila acts differently. if this system worked back in the 40s, 50s and 60s, before MADD took control of america's judicial system, it can work today. the trouble is, attorneys get elected to political office. they become governors, attorney generals, congressmen and senators. they write and pass the laws -- and THEN they get the economic benefits from representing the people who break those laws. i am an international journalist and have seem how our elected representatives play the system. they are making fools out of all of you on this site who defend them, and you are swallowing their legislative garbage like it's steak and lobster. it would be totally disgusting if it wasn't so sad.
in major cities like phoenix, las vegas and other metros, i guarantee you that some police officers have been caught putting stickers on license plates that will identify motorists to other law enforcement officers that they were at a bar. i covered a story on this in phoenix, and the judge ordered the practice halted. but it is STILL done in cities across the america. i have no idea if it's happening in springfield or vicinity, but where i come from if there's smoke, there's fire, and if it hops like a frog, it's usually a frog.
duude,
great story about your relative. no, that wasn't too lenient an action by the cop. i have a lot of people i know in law enforcement, having been a journalist the past 40 years. i worked for major newspapers and covered major murder cases and the like, including the manson trial and the patty hearst kidnapping. i know what makes a good cop, a maverick cop and -- the worst -- a bad cop. i think a police officer or deputy who handles cases and incidents individually and not 'by the booki' is the best kind of police officer. unfortunately, the way the attorneys posing as congressmen and senators have set up our laws today, they take most of those rights away from the cops. i don't blame cops for the way they enforce the laws, i blame a system that has to be changed if we want to continue calling our country america, land of the free and home of the brave.
i don't write truths here to be popular. i never forgot what my sunday school teacher told me a long time ago, THE MAJORITY KILLED CHRIST. sometimes you have to go against the grain to make people see a point that they are blind to. one of the bloggers here said, 'this isn't the 40s or 50s,' and said he was happy when a police officer put handcuffs on somebody rather than drove that person home. that insensitivity to the plight of our fellow citizens is the thing that is killing america and turning our country into an armed camp. my former girl friend, a flight attendant, was born in poland and told me about ten years ago this was happening to america, when she saw how laws were tightening up on guns and driving. she said, IT HAPPENED TO US IN WARSAW, AND BY THE TIME THE PEOPLE WOKE UP, IT WAS TOO LATE. WE WERE POWERLESS AGAINST THE SYSTEM AND HAD LOST OUR FREEDOM. so i happily accept being the most unpopular blogger here. messengers of the truth generally are treated that way. smiles...
The motorist who plowed into your friends' car did not have a drink or two. to be that out of control, he had to have been legally drunk and should have been stopped. sadly it didn't happen before the accident. but i have many friends, including older women, who have been arrested and brutalized by an unforgiving system that, like you, is blind to seeing the difference between DRUNK and driving and drinking and driving.
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