The United Police States of America

[givemebackmycountry]

My friends I ask you this...

What is next?
We already lock up more people than any other country in the world including those countries we despise.
Now we are inventing new and even more creative ways to lock up MORE people.

Have these people no shame?
Have they no compassion or heart or even a soul?

Now you can be locked up for something you did two weeks ago.
Like smoke a joint for example.
Hold the tears back...

Your License, Your Urine
Paul Armentano , AlterNet

Viewed on Jun 23, 2004

Imagine if it were against the law to drive home after consuming a single glass of wine at dinner. Now imagine it is illegal to drive after having consumed a single glass of wine two weeks ago. Guess what? If you smoke pot, it's time to stop imagining.

Legislation weaving its way through the US Congress demands all 50 states pass laws granting police the power to drug test drivers and arrest anyone found to have "any detectable amount of a controlled substance ... present in the person's body, as measured in the person's blood, urine, saliva, or other bodily substance." Though the expressed purpose of the law is to target and remove drug-impaired drivers from US roadways, the proposal would do nothing of the sort.

Most troubling, the proposed law -- H.R. 3922 -- does not require motorists to be identifiably impaired or intoxicated in order to be criminally charged with the crime of "drugged driving." Rather, police have only to demonstrate that the driver has detectable levels of illicit drugs or inactive drug metabolites in their blood, sweat, saliva or urine. As many pot smokers know, marijuana metabolites are fat soluble, and remain identifiable in the urine for days and sometimes even weeks after past use. Consequently someone who smoked a joint on Monday could conceivably be arrested on Friday and charged with "drugged driving," even though they are perfectly sober!

Here's how the law would work. Police, at their discretion, could order motorists during a traffic stop to undergo a drug test, most likely a urine test. If the driver's urine tests positive for prior pot use then he or she would automatically be charged and eventually found guilty of the criminal offense of driving under the influence of drugs -- even if the pot in question was consumed weeks earlier. Under the law, the fact that the driver is not impaired is irrelevant; the only "evidence" necessary is the positive test result.

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[givemebackmycountry]

1. OH and by the way...

I can't wait to see some Missouri cop dragging away a terminally ill cancer patient. Someone who smoked a joint to help them with their pain and suffering because they tested positive under this new law.

These people are out of control and need to be stopped.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. I heard that Poppy owns a piece of the drug testing pie!

Poppy owns or did own part of a company doing drug testing back when it all started, I read somewhere! It all started under his watch! And then the GOPers whine about the government being too big and sticking it's nose into Joe Six Pack's business! It is a police state already, thanks to the Neocons!

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4. Yes, the Monstrous Evil has yet to begin

It begins if and when the Imperial Family cements their hold on Unchecked Powr and Unlimited Lies without Challenge.

Be ready for it. It's likely coming.