Civil Liberties, Yes
Thu, 02/05/2009 - 7:15am | 
mal contends
mal contends
It's about time someone spoke up against Kathleen Falk's bone-headed approach to addressing the issue of operating a vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) and the non-issue of Wisconsin's alleged drinking "culture" problem.
Falk's criminalization and anti-civil liberties OWI agenda drew reproach from her opponent, Nancy Mistele, at the first debate (January) between the two likely candidates for Dane County Executive in the general election in April.
Mistele hit the statist, heavy-handed Falk program by pointing out that personal responsibility and private action were critical vis a vis government's involvement of changing the "culture," to a round of groans from Falk supporters.
Yesterday's Captial Times hits Falk's approach, though not naming Falk as a leading advocate; [wish they had].
Myself, I'm waiting for Falk to advocate mandatory arrests for being German, Irish or being in college at UW-Madison.
That ought to fix this alleged drinking "culture" problem.
Kathleen Falk's screw-ups on the 911 Center and UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann murder alone disqualify her from this voter's choice for Dane County Executive. The fact that Falk chooses to advocate chopping away at what little is left of the Fourth Amendment just closes the deal to give Falk the boot. Proust!
Falk's criminalization and anti-civil liberties OWI agenda drew reproach from her opponent, Nancy Mistele, at the first debate (January) between the two likely candidates for Dane County Executive in the general election in April.
Mistele hit the statist, heavy-handed Falk program by pointing out that personal responsibility and private action were critical vis a vis government's involvement of changing the "culture," to a round of groans from Falk supporters.
Yesterday's Captial Times hits Falk's approach, though not naming Falk as a leading advocate; [wish they had].
... But the drinking culture of Wisconsin -- rooted as it is in the state's broader culture -- is not the problem. There is nothing wrong, per se, with a drinking culture -- especially if it is rooted in good fellowship and good times. ...
But no moves should be made to implement or fund wrongheaded proposals to permit law enforcement authorities to establish checkpoints on Wisconsin roadways.
No matter how they are operated, checkpoints where motorists are forced to pull over even where there is no indication of impaired driving are a form of unreasonable search and seizure that cannot be sanctioned in Wisconsin. Other states, with less regard for basic liberties, may allow checkpoints. But there is insufficient legal or scientific justification to warrant such an intrusion by state and local authorities in a state that has always set a higher standard when it comes to protecting the right to privacy. ...
Checkpoints draw the attention of law enforcement authorities away from the offenders they say they are out to catch and turn it toward citizens who would not be under suspicion.
Wisconsin can crack down on drunken driving without cracking down on the Constitution.
Myself, I'm waiting for Falk to advocate mandatory arrests for being German, Irish or being in college at UW-Madison.
That ought to fix this alleged drinking "culture" problem.
Kathleen Falk's screw-ups on the 911 Center and UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann murder alone disqualify her from this voter's choice for Dane County Executive. The fact that Falk chooses to advocate chopping away at what little is left of the Fourth Amendment just closes the deal to give Falk the boot. Proust!
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Best to Think these things through, THOUROUGHLY
Firstly, DRUNK DRIVING is a misnomer. FACTUALLY, this is merely someone over the legal limit.
The legal limit is NOT BASED ON SCIENCE, it is based partially on a few studies and partially on prohibitionist ideology and partially on the REVENUES generated. To make the outright claim of "drunk driving" is unsubstantiated. We ALREADY have laws in place to stop, detain and prosecute those who are actually dangerous on the roadways. I have called the authorities on these myself. However, to institute arbitrary "check points" is a police state mentality.
Better to think, and think very carefully before endorsing such practices. Is this where it will end... or is this only the beginning?
Again, there is little substantiated science to prove these legal limits are warranted. Additionally, there is a WEALTH of information available to show how state or local revenues have been very profoundly increased by measures such as this. As the saying goes....FOLLOW THE MONEY.
It has been well born out in national politics that dems and repubs. alike are to blame for the current "state of the union". We do not need additional burdens on citizens to fill the coffers of government via unsubstantiated theoretical nostrums.
Advocating an empirical
Give it a rest
Been writing about the Fourth Amendment
Apologize to Britney Zimmermann's family
The only people
who should apologize to the Zimmermann family is Kathleen Falk and the yahoos who support her incompetence in administering the 911 Center, obstruct journalistic investigation of the 911 Center, and even now will not come clean about the 911 call placed by Zimmermann.
By the way, how’s the Zimmermann family’s lawsuit coming along? You must be in complete agreement with the merits, right? And advocating vigorously for some small measure of justification for the family?
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