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Old 06-25-2019, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by urban rednek View Post
At issue is the loss of "innocent until proven guilty". This flawed legislation effectively makes the presumption that everyone is guilty, and must prove their innocence by blowing under 0.05. Unlike another posters' comment, there is no requirement for Reasonable Cause, you are guilty...period.
While getting drunks off the road and stopping the carnage caused by impaired driving is a just and noble cause, this imperfect legislation is another step in the long torturous road to a socialist police state. Once society has accepted the idea that innocence is not the default state under current law, it will be easier for legislators to enact even more abhorrent laws in the future. They will argue that the precedent of guilty until proven innocent has existed since 2018, and can now be applied to other areas of societal control.
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This type of law has already proven to be unconstitutional. In the 90's, a fella got pulled over between Canmore and Calgary for driving 5 km under the speed limit. He was a drug mule but the SCOC declared driving slow isn't reasonable cause. It will take some time but this will get struck down. Never let your freedoms go, doesn't mater the cause, if we let the state take away rights, we are just headed back to old times when the state ruled and the ppl are just a commodity. I feel for the loved ones who lost a family member by a drunk. But , in a democracy, there are some losses. An old story is how to boil a frog, don't just throw it in the hot water.....slowly turn up the temperature. Our politicians and major media are doing this....we need to "Stand on Guard" .
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