pstokely
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Thu Nov-10-11 06:51 AM
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Sobriety checkpoints might save lives, but who's saving people from checkpoints? |
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Thu Nov-10-11 08:04 AM
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1. Why is avoiding just dues such a "good thing" for the little man... |
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...but unmittigated evil when the 1% do it?
They are both in fact equally wrong. And one (step by all too easy baby step) all to easily allows and leads to the other.
Little wrongs to big wrongs: incentive, desensitisation and opportunity for blackmail.
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Thu Nov-10-11 08:16 AM
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2. yah i know--gets drunk drivers off the road etc etc |
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but i just get a bit nervous everytime i think of police checkpoints.
i am 58 years old. The cold war was very real to me. air raid drills duck and cover commies under every rock and behind every tree.....
in school there were compare and contrast, us vs them type things...
they had police checkpoints America did not.
don't care about the rationalization about drunk drivers--the lesson of elementary school remain.
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Thu Nov-10-11 08:24 AM
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4. Wrong. I lived half my life in USSR and there was no police |
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checkpoints there. In fact, there was much less visible police presence in USSR than I found to my amazement in the US when I moved there. There was no air raid drills in schools either. Just saying.
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Thu Nov-10-11 08:23 AM
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3. Another third world sign. Not always for or limited to sobriety. |
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