02-08-2021, 01:17 AM
(02-07-2021, 09:11 PM)random3 Wrote: Americans are so batshit insane now that they commit three felonies a day and scream for more laws.
Americans think giving their fingerprints to the government,
as if overt criminals getting away with violent crimes such as murder, rape, and arson is a valid concept of freedom
Quote:DUI laws, checkpoints,
strictly speaking, the DUI laws are so designed that if you go to your car while drunk and start the heater or radio or fall asleep in the car while in possession of the car keys if drunk you are considered "operating a vehicle while intoxicated" even if you are not trying to move the vehicle. It's obvious that a stationary car with a drunk in it is as safe as an unoccupied or with a sober child in it if that car is stationary. Checkpoints? If you really are driving drunk, tough luck! You are a statistical menace on the highway.
I have reported a drunk driver. The fellow was all over his lane on a straight city street, he could not keep a steady speed and he had his head out of the driver's window like a dog. Dogs have an excuse for that because they are dogs and are not driving a car. Drivers doing that are drunk. I pulled over to call the cops, and the fellow sped off.
Quote:seatbelt laws,
which make people less likely to be killed or crippled in vehicle crashes....
Quote:car liability insurance laws,
ensure that people have paid their share into the cost of vehicle collisions for whom responsibility is not obvious
Quote:neighborhood watch groups,
100% voluntary! I strongly endorse dogs as a deterrent to crime. Burglars, muggers, and rapists are welcome to consider themselves dog food!
Quote:"get tough on crime" politicians, laws allowing mandatory minimums,
Oh, please! Fear of crime is inconsistent with freedom.
Quote:3 strikes laws,
Three strikes, as in California? Burglary for theft may seem like a non-violent crime, but burglars are often also rapists. California incarcerated a huge number of repeat burglars, and rapes also went down.
Quote:curfews,
rare -- unless involving minors. Children should not be out late at night without adult supervision. They are just to naïve about what is out there and too vulnerable in case something goes awry. Following natural disasters or civil unrest? Fine.
Quote:police militarization,
I concur with you on this.
Quote:teen boot camps,
on the fade because they are ineffective
Quote:school metal detectors,
I concur due to the rarity of school violence involving metal weapons. Most often the weapons are fists and shod feet. Let me remind you of the potential weapons in the gym (like baseball bats) and shop (I will leave that to your imagination).
An aside. I went to a well-known university in the 1970's, and I was warned that it was in a high-crime area. I discovered that college students were rather rarely victims of crime. Maybe that was because we usually traveled in groups and rarely carried valuables. But we did have books, and if someone did something to us, we might give an impromptu physics lesson with a book called "Principles of Physics" to the sorts of losers (usually dopers) who would never study high-school, let alone college, physics. To put it bluntly, topics of that lesson would include either linear or angular momentum and the effects of collisions, no mathematical calculations needed. Besides, if we did testify in a court of law we were a prosecutor's dream witness.
Quote:private prisons, chain gangs,
I concur on the potential for abuse
Quote: nanny state laws, the Patriot Act, NSA wiretapping, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, kill switches, National Security Letters, DNA databases, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, Operation Chokepoint, TSA groping, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, Jade Helm, sneak and peek warrants, policing for profit, no refusal blood checkpoints, license plate readers, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, tattoo databases, gun bans, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, searches without warrants, CISPA, SOPA, private prison quotas, supermax prisons, FOSTA, sex offender registration laws, sex offender restriction laws, and the police state are just a funny little game.
I don't have enough time to address them all. License plate readers are good for detecting stolen cars. Sex offenders deserve to be watched so that they can be kept away from children. Child sexual abuse is a factor in children becoming adult offenders.
Quote:If you escaped Cambodia in 1977 then you might take tyranny more seriously.
Did you? If not, then don't make any comparison with the United States, flawed as it is (and especially how it was headed under Donald Trump) to the Hell that was Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.