Sobriety checkpoints might save lives, but who's saving people from checkpoints?

[pstokely]

http://www.pitch.com/gyrobase/michael-mikkelsen-dui-checkpoints/Content?oid=2672927&showFullText=true&show=comments

[TheMadMonk]

1. Why is avoiding just dues such a "good thing" for the little man...

...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.

[dembotoz]

2. yah i know--gets drunk drivers off the road etc etc

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.

[Fool Count]

4. Wrong. I lived half my life in USSR and there was no police

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.

[Downwinder]

3. Another third world sign. Not always for or limited to sobriety.