Is MADD trying to take our rights away?

I'm not on the side of anyone who has be found giltiy of drinking and driving. Thousands of lives and families are runined by the many crashes that occur over our great country everyday. I've always wondered however why we continue to have road blocks and "click'it or ticket type checks". Aren't these illegal by the Constitution of the US? Something like I dunno called the Fourth Amendment. Well if you thought that you thought wrong. MADD would love to do away with all rights if it means more convictions. Lawrence Taylor explains in a very detailed post to the DUI blog.

Some of you say, "Well, that can’t happen in the United States. We have the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which says police officers have to have probable cause to stop you. They have to have a reason to believe you’ve done something criminal before they can stop and detain you.’" And so said the Michigan Supreme Court in 1990 in the case of Sitz v. Michigan. The Court said, "The Fourth Amendment does not permit these types of roadblocks" — and reversed the DUI conviction. The case went up to the United States Supreme Court, unfortunately, and that august body decided that somewhere in the Constitution there is something called a "DUI Exception". -Lawrence Taylor

I must say that MADD has done some great things for us. Made us safer, but are they by-passing the Bill of Rights to do this? My thought is that no law in this land should sacrifice the process and rights that we all have been given by god and country. Step up and don't take your rights for granted people!!

Link to:“The DUI Exception to the Constitution” - Posted by Lawrence Taylor

I think we have some confusion here.

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According to the Wall Street Journal we as a whole spend about $2 trillion in health care and at least 46 million people don’t have health coverage.

With this new health care system that our fantastic president has offered us we will all be saved from the harshness of the premiums we already pay. Then this new health care bill will save us and makes us all have great "healthy" affordable life styles right?

Some friends, family, co-workers and some of the commentators on TV are making you think that this health care system is going to almost cost us nothing. Trust me we are still going to pay the same amount just in different ways.

How much do you think the government would make you pay? The goal of this isn't to make health care free but to have the government directly set premiums. What is the cost here? This would go into everything from your gas tax to your sales tax. One goes as far as to imposing a surtax on wealthy individuals, or taxing sugary drinks and soda.

What is the coverage what is the co-pay? I don't understand how we can be so excited for something that we are letting a bunch of people in Washington decide. Do we remember some of the great things these people have done like the Patriot Act? or the mess that is Social Security? Medicare? Our government is trying to become a business that has influence over the private sector that it should have nothing to do with. Next could have them making cars, or government food. If you don't use the government facilities provided then you will also pay the penalty.

I know a lot of people that are depending on government run benefits like unemployment to make ends meet right now. My own wife gets some of this money and when there is an issue with it she has to call in and deal with a large bureaucratic mess. I don't want this same thing to happen to my health care. I have a hard enough time trying to figure out the health insurance thing without having to deal with the same people that write the tax code trying to put in their two cents.

Why create new taxes instead of less? I think a certain English King from back in 1776 is laughing at us in his grave. Maybe that explains the recent earthquakes. Well that's enough of my short rambling on the matter; what do you think?

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