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'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida?

Posted by timothy on from the ends-justify-the-means dept.

schwit1 writes "With New Year's Eve only days away, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration expects this to be one of the deadliest weeks of the year on the roads. But now a new weapon is being used in the fight against drunk driving. ... Florida is among several states now holding what are called 'no refusal' checkpoints. It means if you refuse a breath test during a traffic stop, a judge is on site, and issues a warrant that allows police to perform a mandatory blood test."

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  1. Re:Whats next? by deapbluesea · · Score: 1, Troll

    No one is going after the NYT or any other news outlet that has released the documents because there is not enough political will to do so, not because no law was broken. What you see now is nothing but political theater, plain and simple. Politicians are whining about prosecuting Assange for breaking laws he's not bound to, while at the same time avoiding going after those in the US who broke the same laws. Those politicians are doing this because they either don't understand the laws they write, or they are afraid of being accused of reconstituting McCarthyism. Either way, that doesn't mean the law wasn't broken.

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    Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.