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JASooner

Mar 23 2006, 08:14 AM

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here yet: http://www.nbc5i.com/news/8169246/detail.h...ss=dfw&psp=news

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The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent a message to bar patrons last week. TABC agents and Irving police swept through 36 Irving bars and arrested about 30 people on charges of public intoxication. Agency representatives say the move came as a proactive measure to curtail drunken driving. ...At one location, for example, agents and police arrested patrons of a hotel bar.... TABC officials said the sweep concerned saving lives, not individual rights.

So, if I walk down the street to a bar and get drunk inside I can go to jail even though I won't be driving? Or I'm inside the same hotel where I have a room? Or I have a sober designated driver? Just utterly stupid. Yet another example of conservatives expanding government control, trampling individual rights and turning to the nanny state to "protect" people.

HotlantaTarheel

Mar 23 2006, 08:22 AM

Maybe one of the lawyers on here will chime in, but it seems to me this operation could end up being a waste of time and police effort -- that is, if the courts throw all the arrests out.

swiminbuff

Mar 23 2006, 03:33 PM

Wonder if anyone mentioned this to the Bush twins

krnfusion

Mar 23 2006, 11:15 PM

Too bad Texas didn't have that law back when W was boozing and snorting bigtime out in Midland.

millerbeach

Mar 24 2006, 12:34 AM

Too bad Bush doesn't go BACK to drinking and snorting. I think he would a much kinder, gentler man. I'll just file this tidbit under reason number 5,385,784 as to why I never want to set foot in that ass-backwards state. Don't forget, I hail from an ass-backward state, the good ole Hoosier state! Isn't this also the same state that has drive-thru liquor stores? Talk about irony.

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