How Your Trust in Law Enforcement is Being Fleeced

Declaration of Independence

The average American, for good or for bad, has an undeniable trust in their government.  That is, they trust that the local, state and national governments will do the right thing to protect, watcher over, make them aware of and guard their rights.

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence copying the first article of the Virginia Declaration of Rights adopted by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776 written originally by George Mason.

And, yet trounce on your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, indeed, the government does daily.

I present to you the issue of drunk driving.  We have been made to believe that someone that gets behind the wheel of a car, slovenly drunk is a demon to behold.  Therefore we automatically assume that any individual that is arrested by the police for DUI [driving under the influence] must be guilty, and by proxy in need of being jailed, ruined and left for dead to rot in jail throughout eternity.

I present to you this little gem -
“In the United States the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 17,941 people died in 2006 in “alcohol-related” collisions, representing 40 percent of total traffic deaths in the US. Over 500,000 people were injured in alcohol-related accidents in the US in 2003.  NHTSA defines fatal collisions as “alcohol-related” if they believe the driver, a passenger, or an occupant of the vehicle (such as a pedestrian or pedalcyclist) had a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.01 or greater. NHTSA defines nonfatal collisions as “alcohol-related” if the accident report indicates evidence of alcohol present.  NHTSA specifically notes that “alcohol-related” does not necessarily mean a driver or nonoccupant was tested for alcohol and that the term does not indicate a collision or fatality was caused by the presence of alcohol. On average, about 60 percent of the BAC values are missing or unknown. To analyze what they believe is the complete data, statisticians simulate BAC information. Drivers with a BAC of 0.10 are 6 to 12 times more likely to get into a fatal crash or injury then drivers with no alcohol.”

Declaration of Independence Signing

Wait did I just read that correctly?  You mean not only is there no evidence of alcohol, but they don’t even bother to be specific if its the driver, but include the passenger, or even if you just went and bought booze and put it in the trunk.  Wait a minute.  Does that even make sense?  You mean to tell me, you put out these numbers yearly and scare people to death, and demonize good people, for what?

For what is indeed the question.  Remember the “unalienable rights”?  Oh and that government will not impinge upon them?  Let’s expose this farce for what it is.  Let’s look at the “for what”.

Money, money, money I’m sure you knew that was the why of it all.  And, not only money, but everyone involved has their hand out.  Government at every level is its own entity feeding upon itself and the population it serves.  It needs to grow, and that growth costs money and power.  The more money you throw at it, the more power it takes.

So let’s see who gets paid:

• arresting fees
• jail fees
• breathalyzer fees
• blood test lab fees
• urine test lab fees
• prison fees
• police fees
• sr22 insurance company fees
• court fees
• attorney fees [if you're smart]

private prisons

I may have missed some fees, but that should take care of nearly 90% of the money.  Who writes the laws?  Concerned citizens?  No!  Mothers Against Drunk Drivers  didn’t begin till 1980.  DUI laws have been around for decades before MADD came on the scene.  I’m not taking anything away from MADD, but I need you to see, who is writing the laws.  Is it far fetched that insurance companies put forth legislation?  Is it far fetched that the police unions [yes the police have unions, did you know that?] put forth legislation?  Is is far fetch that the PRIVATE jails and prisons [yes there are privately owned prisons and jails] put forth legislation?

America arrests more people related to DUI than any other nation on the planet.  Wait, why?  Are Americans more drunk than other countries? [answered below]  Surely, you know that Europeans drink at nearly every meal.  Surely, they would be sloshed night and day.  In fact the penalties overseas pale in comparison to our U.S. penalties.  Overseas there’s rarely any jail time, and if the person is a repeat offender, they are sent to rehabilitation, obviously they have a problem.  Other countries take your license plates, impound your car or just invalidate your license plates.  Also quite a few countries base their fines upon YOUR INCOME LEVEL,  or, better yet, require community service.  The very harshest penalties overseas were suspending the license for up to 4 years, in egregious cases, imprisonment for up to 6 months.  Ironically the U.S. has the 2nd lowest per capita Alcohol consumption in the world. Yet we jail our citizens for minor alcoholic infractions.  Ironically, although the U.S. has the highest threshold for illegal B.A.C. on the planet, and other countries criminalize B.A.C. levels starting as low as 0.01, we imprison more people than any other country, including the communists.

B.A.C. responsibly

Let’s stop and clarify something that a recent study and any student of the subject will tell you.  There is no way to test alcohol tolerance.  What does that mean?  That means that a B.A.C. level of 0.32 doesn’t mean anything.  It is not an indication that the person is impaired, cannot function, cannot drive, is visibly drunk.  In fact to even get to a B.A.C. of 0.16 a person would have to drink non-stop for months on end to develop a tolerance to get his/her B.A.C. that high.  You can theoretically say that someone with a B.A.C. that high actually may be less likely to be impaired that someone with a B.A.C. of 0.05 due to the fact that the person built up such a high tolerance versus the lower B.A.C. has probably no tolerance to alcohol and thus could be impaired.

For instance, it is common knowledge that Asian people have no tolerance for grain alcohol, since their alcohol is based on rice.  If you have seen them drink a thimble full of beer you will notice they are completely intoxicated and impaired nearly immediately.  By definition that person is impaired.  Versus, comparatively speaking an Irish person that drinks beer like water and seemingly would never be impaired by a pint of beer.  I shall repeat, there is no way to indicate impairment by B.A.C. levels.  This is scientific fact.  Yet we are locking people up and throwing away the key based on these numbers.  The government doesn’t just test your B.A.C. levels.  They use pseudo retrograde extrapolation to arrive at a new B.A.C. level.  In short, they add B.A.C. levels onto your breathalyzer test and arrive at a new level.  In fact, you could, in questioning, say you had 4 drinks 4 hours ago and you will automatically be assumed drunk, so drunk that you could go directly to state prison, assumed of felony grade DUI.  Do you disbelieve it?  Go ask a DUI Lawyer

Retrograde Extrapolation chart

“Retrograde extrapolation” is the term given to the assumption that blood-alcohol levels always drop after a citizen stops drinking. The presumed level of blood-alcohol, at the time of the traffic stop or collision, is theoretically equal to the blood-alcohol test result plus approximately 0.015% for every hour that had passed between the time of the incident to the time of the BAC test. Other experts recommended 0.20% BAC drop per hour, which is even more damaging to a citizen (in this example). This is to allow time for the liver to metabolize the alcohol. One legal textbook on DWI law points out that: “One should not lose sight of the requirement that the prohibition is for driving or being in physical control ‘while ‘under the influence’ of an intoxicant or prohibited drug.”

In other countries any fatalities are viewed in light of the actual accident, alcohol is never ascribed as the cause of the accident.  Thus people are treated as individuals and judged according to the fact of the case.  We have been brainwashed to think that it is ok in a legal proceeding to prejudge nearly every human in the court based on various groupings.  An honest, decent legal system that was reputable and trustworthy would never dream of doing such a heinous thing.

Think for one second,  “people who drink and drive are bad and should go to jail”  Where did you get this thinking from?  And, is this how our legal system is supposed to work?  This is the same thinking not too far in the distant past that said “black people in court are wrong because black people cannot be trusted” [this was in our recent American history, this is not conjecture nor opinion upon my part]  We had to wake up from that nightmare and move forward to the thinking of “all men are created equal” and are “entitled to their day in court”.

America you have been sold a bill of goods that is so tainted with lies you don’t even know what the truth is any longer.  That was the main reason I wrote my website: Las Vegas DUI Lawyer.  It tells you your rights, and how to act to avoid a DUI arrest.  The police do not care about completely destroying your life, reputation or career.  Why?  Because, the way the system is set up they will catch millions of people annually.  And, they feel they need that money for all of those fees I listed earlier.  They need the fees.  The state needs the fees.  The huge insurance companies need the fees.  The privately held prisons need the fees.

Private prisons are a booming business

Private companies in the United States operate 264 correctional facilities, housing almost 99,000 adult offenders. Companies operating such facilities include the Corrections Corporation of America, the GEO Group, Inc, Cornell Companies, and Community Education Centers. The GEO Group was formerly known as Wackenhut Securities.  Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has a capacity of more than 80,000 beds in 65 correctional facilities. The GEO Group operates 61 facilities with a capacity of 49,000 offender beds, while Cornell Companies has 79 facilities to service 19,226 adult and juvenile offenders in secure containment and community-based corrections.  Most privately run facilities are located in the southern and western portions of the United States and include both state and federal offenders.

Just take a look:

“According to the lead editorial in the NY Times 3-9-08 citing a recent Pew Center on the States study, the United States leads the world in the percentage of it’s population that is imprisoned–more than 1 in 100 Americans is in prison or 1.6 million people. One in 9 black men, ages 20 to 34 are serving time. The figure for Hispanics men is 1 in 36. The states spent $44 billion in tax dollars on corrections, up from $11 billion in 1987.”

“While the nation’s economy flounders, business is booming for The GEO Group Inc., a private prison firm that is paid millions by the U.S. government to detain undocumented immigrants and other federal inmates. In the last year and a half, GEO announced plans to add a total of at least 3,925 new beds to immigration lockups in five locations. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and the U.S. Marshals Service, which hire the company, will fill the beds with inmates awaiting court and deportation proceedings.”

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