Re: [privacy] Highway safety

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 10/23/06, Dmitry Chan <dmitry.chan () gmail com> wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
> > It's not a leap of logic to state that DUI laws have had other
> > unintended consequences, detrimental to individual rights which is
> > just another reason to get rid of them (beyond the fact they're based
> > on one's "potential" to commit a crime - in case someone missed that).
>
>  The same argument could also be applied to Airline pilots.  Should pilots
> be allowed to fly folks around the country while impaired?  It is, after
> all, just a "potential" to commit a crime.

Once again, the logic leaves me wanting... No, not airline pilots, or
cabbies or bus drivers. Not truck drivers or tanker ship captains. All
of those folks are subject to company policies and government
regulations.


I guess the loss of privacy rights - even on the privacy list - isn't
of much concern to anyone.
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