Our country was built on the principles of our government staying out of people's lives, having a bare minimum of authority and power to maintain order. Allowing the maximum rights, privileges, and freedoms to be retained by the citizen
Which is what I believe they are doing, to maintain a semblance of order on the
public highway by cracking down on street racing and by imposing stiff penalties for DUI/DWI.
The expanding power of government threatens the very freedoms this country is all about, and I'm sorry if your offended that I'm not afraid to speak out against it.
I take no offence at all, your opinion is just as valid as mine, just different. The freedoms this country is all about, that are under attack right now, that our servicemen are defending overseas have nothing to do with the right or perceived right of the citizens of the country to do what they want on a highway with disregard for the general public.
The rights granted to you as a citizen are not infringed IMO by law enforcement enforcing the law, provided the law is not unconstitutional, in which case I hope and believe it will be struck out.
Patriotism isn't rubber stamping everything our government does. Patriotism is about the nation, and the principles of freedom that this nation was founded on. Those principles are in ever increasing jeopardy every day, yet sticking up for them is a bad thing?
Agreed, patriotism is not about rubberstamping government but I don't see how the principles of freedom are being jeopardized, at least not in this case.
On the breathalyzer, it's not collecting evidence. It's requiring me to provide a bodily specimen at the will of the police.
It's requiring the person stopped to provide a specimen to determine, through science, whether or not that person is intoxicated or not and therefore whether they should be driving or not. That to me is collecting evidence.
Regards....