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FLIP THOSE FLAGS, THE NATION IS IN DISTRESS!
why I should worship the state (who apparently is the only party that can possess guns without question).
The state's only purpose is to kill and control. Why do you worship it? - Sola_Fide
Baptiste said.
At which point will Americans realize that creating an unaccountable institution that is able to pass its liability on to tax-payers is immoral and attracts sociopaths?
yea, I totally get that, I drive in anticipation of what Is going on 4 or 5
vehicles ahead , if everyone looks like they know what they're doing
I'm right there, if I see a conflict or aggressive jerk ,I tend to back off
let them duel it out.
I don't mind 'speeders' and racers so long as they know when to back off
and what the traffic will bear, I used to do a bit of that myself
but would always ease up on approach , get passed then dime it.
One thing about the racers in my small town is that they usually don't
tailgate, I give them room to get around me, no point in starting a
war over it, plus they're down the road and not hanging around in my blind spot.
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I've got 2 finners out for a while, and not bothering to edit and fix errors for now.
I FIGURE as long as I rember to hit left 'alin, I should be half ok.
HA ha ,too funny , we have housing tracts like that , every street is like view lane or view cir, park blvd ave etc...
...edit; worse yet is a town40mi fromhere; kingman az
most streets circle, meander and intersect if you can imagine trying to find
anything or place, I had to laugh when a local genius tried to convince me of how simple it was
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Checkpoints? Sure, those are great. You can do so much at those. Check for illegal immigrants, check for any outstanding warrants, check for drugs, weapons and excess cash. Roadside checkoints are a dream (to the authoritarian police state).
They are neo-prohibitionists. Which is worse, living under Sharia law, or living under LDS law? There are similarities.
Do-gooders and safety nazis eat this kind of $#@! up. "It's for the children."
Chris
"Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon
"...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul
How about folks who never had a drink, blowing 0.12 g/dL?
Gut Fermentation Syndrome
Presumptive vs. Actual Impairment
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2018...al-impairment/
By eric - December 14, 2018
Yesterday, my buddy got into an accident. An actual accident – because it was one he could not have avoided. A minivan pulled out in front of him, struck his Jeep – which spun several times before ending up in a ditch. My buddy is largely unhurt – except for his heart. Because his Jeep, which he loves and also put a lot of work into – is probably totaled.
The interesting thing about this accident is that it is the result of impairment – but one treated with relative kid gloves by the cops and courts and insurance mafia.
My buddy’s Jeep sits in a wrecking yard because a senile, confused old man pulled out in front of him. A nice enough old man, according to my buddy. He admitted fault, was apologetic.
Certainly he didn’t mean to pull out in front of my buddy.
But impaired, nonetheless. And his impairment resulted in actual damage to property and could have resulted in actual damage to my buddy, himself.
Yet this form of clearcut impairment – driving while senile/glaucomic – is handled very differently – far more leniently – than other forms of arbitrary, presumptive impairment.
And not even that.
If, for example, you have the bad luck to drive by a cop while traveling slightly faster than the speed limit and he turns around and pulls you over to issue you a ticket for speeding – and in the course of interviewing you, sees the empty beer bottle you decided not to throw out the window – you can be arrested for “drunk” driving.
Even though you drank the beer three hours before – and even though one beer cannot get anyone over the age of eight “drunk.”
Even if your BAC is well within the margin of legality. You have an “open container” – and that is enough. (Best to litter, in this case.)
If you are not 21 and drank a beer – or even had a sip of one and Officer Unfriendly catches a whiff on your breath – you also face arrest/conviction and severe consequences for “dunk” driving – even though you obviously weren’t.
You can also be arrested for “drunk” driving even when you haven’t been driving.
Just being in the car is enough – even if it’s in the back seat and you’re fast asleep. The actual driving part of “drunk driving” is no longer necessary, legally speaking – even though it is hard to imagine what possible harm a parked car might cause. You are still subject to arrest for “driving” drunk – and will be roasted over the coals by the system and the insurance mafia, just the same as an 18-year-old who has a 17-year-old girlfriend is labeled a “sex offender” for life by the same system.
It is also presumed that a certain arbitrary percentage of alcohol in your blood means you are impaired – ipso facto – and you are treated as if you did actually cause harm to persons or property – even though the former has not been established and the latter is manifestly not the case.
Your actual driving is irrelevant. All that matters – to the cop, the courts and the insurance mafia – is the arbitrary BAC level.
To get back to my buddy’s accident – or rather, the accident which befell him – in order to make the point:
The old man who veered into his path, struck his Jeep and (probably) totaled it received a minor traffic citation – Failure to Yield Right of Way – and was allowed to go home once all the paperwork was handled.
Another man – who didn’t veer into anyone’s path, or cause damage to anyone’s property or person – but who is found to have a .06 BAC at a “roadside sobriety” checkpoint – will find himself in manacles first, the backseat of a police car second and a jail cell third. He will be charged with a serious misdemeanor, one slim notch below a felony.
He will pay exorbitant lawyer bills even if he isn’t convicted.
And if he is convicted, he will also pay exorbitant fines as well as exorbitant insurance premiums for years to come. Probably, he will have his license to drive rescinded or restricted. He may be ordered to attend – and pay for – weeks of “alcohol awareness” sessions (i.e., ASAP).
This will happen in the absence of any harm caused – on the basis of presumed impairment.
It is not necessary for the court to establish that the offender’s actual driving was dangerous, as by testimony about weaving or some other objective evidence of poor driving.
it is only necessary to establish that the “drunk” driver had “x” BAC at the time of his arrest.
Try to imagine what the results would have been if my buddy had been run off the road by a young – and actually drunk – driver. It would have been more than a ticket. And yet, the end result – my buddy’s wrecked Jeep – would have been precisely the same.
But the treatment meted out to the cause would have been very different.
It is certainly not equal justice – even though it is entirely “under the law.” Neither the young drunk nor the glaucomic/senile oldster meant to do any harm. Does this affect the state of my buddy’s Jeep?
But alleged impairment by alcohol is somehow regarded as a far more egregious offense than other forms of objectively demonstrable impairment – i.e., a totaled Jeep.
Even when the alleged impairment doesn’t actually result in any harm at all.
I don't care for most of the stupid standup comedy specials on Netflix. But this one by Ron White is pretty good.
https://www.netflix.com/watch/80244900
He has a great bit on DUIs. Jump to 5minutes into it.
"That not a sobriety test, that's an agility test and im not very goddamn agile..."
"You know what a fair drunk driving test is? Drunk driving! Get in the car, let's do a couple of blocks, let me show you some skills!"
Just don't agree to the driver's license contract and don't consent to jurisdiction. Or alternatively, if you agreed to the contract, set your terms for your end of administering the contract dispute up front when approached by the cop. Who works for free? Think about it.
It's all business and all voluntary.
"Implied consent" and "arbitrary presumptions" are based upon agreeing to the terms of a contract, hence why there's no proof of actual impairment needed. A "driver" agreed to the letter of the contract (the statutory BAC limit) and is violating the terms of the contract. That's all that matters in business law. Did you violate the contract you agreed to? Yes? Liability established. All victimless "crimes" are actually nothing more than contract terms violations being enforced under color of law.Originally Posted by AF's article
It's all business!
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"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
3rd verse:
You know, just the other night, these cops pulled me over outside a bar.
They turned on their lights, and ordered me outta my car.
And I was only kidding when I called 'em a coupla dicks,
But still they made me do the Stupid Human Tricks,
And now I'm stuck in this jail with a bunch of dumb hicks
And I still don't know why.
Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
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