Broompilot
Veteran Expediter
What timming: I have been wanting to write about this after the long thread by the driver who was charged with DUI.
Please be patient with me reading this as my mind works faster than my fingers.
Early this morning a news break came over that a Kennedy who was a Senator from RI was released and not booked for what appeared to be a DUI accident. Mr. Kennedy than later in the morning made a statement that it was just an accident and that he was co-operating fully with law enforcement agencies.
Later that day he fessed up to using drugs illegally and is checking himself into the Mayo at Rochester MN.
Is it not ironic that not only is it another Kennedy behind a wheel of an automobile with the police involved I am refering to uncle Ted and a little river. But that the ironic thing is how these people are able to avoid prosicution. Yet some of us here want to hang this driver for his first offense. By the way younger Kennedy has already been in the Mayo clinic before.
So ones who make the laws do not have to live by them. But let a CDL holder blow a 4-7 and he is charged as if blowing a 8-20 but let a known confessed law maker, drug addict get cought and is his lively hood at risk? I dont think so, society will forgive him but not our fellow driver. I do not condone driving under the influence. But what is completly unfair is the second, third chances the lawmakers are given and this is all that we hear about, hurry up sweep it under the rig. He did his best to avoid this ever going public.
But why do lawmakers not have to subject themselves to Randoms? I would feel much more comfortable if they would put their ownselves on the same level they demand we under go. I feel that if they are going to make any laws that effect the general public that
#1 they be drug free
#2 not under the influence of any amount of alchol when voting on any law under consideration.
3 that they not accept any $ from any orginization with a law on the ropes.
#4 Any company in hoots with these lawmakers not be allowed to wine/dine, gift or in any manner have any personal favors done for how drunk they get lawmakers or paying for trips, etc....
Please be patient with me reading this as my mind works faster than my fingers.
Early this morning a news break came over that a Kennedy who was a Senator from RI was released and not booked for what appeared to be a DUI accident. Mr. Kennedy than later in the morning made a statement that it was just an accident and that he was co-operating fully with law enforcement agencies.
Later that day he fessed up to using drugs illegally and is checking himself into the Mayo at Rochester MN.
Is it not ironic that not only is it another Kennedy behind a wheel of an automobile with the police involved I am refering to uncle Ted and a little river. But that the ironic thing is how these people are able to avoid prosicution. Yet some of us here want to hang this driver for his first offense. By the way younger Kennedy has already been in the Mayo clinic before.
So ones who make the laws do not have to live by them. But let a CDL holder blow a 4-7 and he is charged as if blowing a 8-20 but let a known confessed law maker, drug addict get cought and is his lively hood at risk? I dont think so, society will forgive him but not our fellow driver. I do not condone driving under the influence. But what is completly unfair is the second, third chances the lawmakers are given and this is all that we hear about, hurry up sweep it under the rig. He did his best to avoid this ever going public.
But why do lawmakers not have to subject themselves to Randoms? I would feel much more comfortable if they would put their ownselves on the same level they demand we under go. I feel that if they are going to make any laws that effect the general public that
#1 they be drug free
#2 not under the influence of any amount of alchol when voting on any law under consideration.
3 that they not accept any $ from any orginization with a law on the ropes.
#4 Any company in hoots with these lawmakers not be allowed to wine/dine, gift or in any manner have any personal favors done for how drunk they get lawmakers or paying for trips, etc....
