The Red and Black

Originally posted by

kell

Even this weak case will probably cost the "offender" thousands of dollars even though no law was broken.

I thought going the wrong way up a freeway ramp was against the law. It certainly is dangerous.

Baron, you might want to look at the actual law, which I quote:

"A person shall not drive or be in actual physical control of any moving vehicle while... Under the influence of alcohol to the extent that it is less safe for the person to drive..."

Breath tests and blood tests are ONE way of showing a person is under the influence. Watching him drive the wrong way on a freeway ramp is another.

Originally posted by

Baron Kelly

This is ridiculous. If you blow under the legal limit than you are not Driving Under the Influence according to the law. Period. Just because a cop says you are drunk does not make it so. Why does the cop have any more authority on the matter than Fu, because some bureaucrat at UGA says so? Well my anus says I am God so everyone bow before me and worship. If they have made a law (which apparently they have) that whatever a cop says is irrefutable, his decisions infallible, and his power unassailable, than this world is even more jacked up than I had previously thought. Here we come police state. Luckily, cops aren't in reality mentally or physically superior to most folks so start stocking up on ammo now and we ought to come out of it okay.

Very eloquently put, young man.

If it is as you say, then the law is completely ambiguous and cannot be applied equally based on any physical standard but rather relies on the sole discretion of what amounts to little more than a rent-a-cop. Should the judgment of a certainly fallible person (the cop) be so supreme that it can deny the liberty of another certainly fallible person (anyone) for what essentially amounts to anytime for any reason. If you think so than you would make a perfect slave. congrats on your servility.

No, the police are not all-powerful. There's also the trial, and the judge, and the jury.

"No, the police are not all-powerful. There's also the trial, and the judge, and the jury."

All of whom have been preconditioned from childhood to (irrationally) hold the word of a cop in more esteem than the word of anyone else. Our bureaucratic justice system is fundamentally flawed because it seeks neither justice nor the truth but rather operates with the express goal of obtaining as many convictions as possible, regardless of the truth. The Trial, Judge, and Jury serve as nothing more than an extension of the false authority originally exercised by the cop and therefore offer no form of counterbalance to the original injustice. Besides the fact that even if the trial, judge, and jury works to the favor of a defendant he/she has still been inconvenienced, insulted, and imposed upon by the cop in the first place and with little option for recompense.

Originally posted by

anonymous

The guy is either an idiot or was driving while impaired. Simple.

Either he's an idiot who doesn't know how to drive, going the wrong way up a one way ramp and all. And if he's that much of an idiot, perhaps UGA should rethink him heading up an academic department.

Or he was driving while impaired. Which is reckless and sets a horrible example for his students (in a time at which the University is hyper-concerned with alcohol abuse). If that's the case, then UGA certainly needs to rethink letting this guy head a whole department.

Yes, because everything in the world is either black or white, there are only ever 2 possible options, and no middle ground or gray area exists. try applying that to yourself and your own life and see how much sense your reasoning makes.