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Texas battles DUI problem - Arrests drunks in bars!!
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:47:23 GMT,Doug, wrote
> "jaybird" > wrote in > : > > > > > "Larry Bud" > wrote in message > > ups.com... > >> > >> jaybird wrote: > >>> "necromancer" > wrote in message > >>> th.net... > >>> >> Larry Bud: > >>> >> Yet another example of rights being violated by judges, > >>> >> legislatures, and cops. > >>> > > >>> > You got to remember, in the eyes of jaybird and his ilk, we have > >>> > no rights. > >>> > >>> We all have plenty of rights. Under our current laws and this > >>> particular thread though, you do not have the right to be > >>> intoxicated in a public place > >>> apparently. > >> > >> What part of "inalienable rights" do you not understand in the > >> Constitution? > > > > You can pursue your happiness to your heart's content. You just can't > > get intoxicated in a bar to the point where you are a danger to > > yourself or others. > > > > I don't think that what the "Framers" had in mind with "Pursuit of > Happiness". > > Doug We know that the framers had no idea of what the industrial revolution would do to their work. Most of them ate and drank to what we would call excess. Life in New England in the early colonial days was so rough that the Puritans tended to drink as much rum as they could afford. Ahhh Pioneer virtures! Of course they had no machines to manage and your horse whether ridden or drawing a carriage generally knew the way back to its barn unlike modern horseless carriages. The town drunk of course existed and might be locked up in the stocks for a day after a carouse, not because he was drunk but because he had allowed himself to be out of control. later bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com) -- bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed, the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning. It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion." --from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste. |
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