Thursday, February 19, 2004

Keep the F*** Out of My Car

I like New Mexico, I really do.  They have a wonderful trout fishery in the San Juan River and I’ve landed trout over twenty-two inches in length on bugs as small as a size 22 Chocolate Midge.  Run your cursor over the photo at that link and see exactly how small that fly is.  But this post isn’t about wonderful January afternoons with a fly rod in my hand.  This post is about this travesty.  What travesty is that, you ask?  The travesty of New Mexico’s professional jobholders attempting to enact a law that would require every single vehicle on New Mexico’s roads to have an ignition interlock device, or, in plain English, a breathalyzer installed.

If such an intrusive law is actually enacted, there will soon be no such thing as an illegal search whether you are in your car or your home.  As much as it pains me, if this travesty becomes law, I will no longer visit the San Juan River outside of Farmington, NM.

This story is linked through Drudge, but I have not been able to access the story through the link provided.  I linked this story through Google News’ news search engine.

Update:  Is He Serious?  Glenn Reynolds posts a link to this story and notes,

“...Eugene Volokh, who is surprised that people are more exercised over one than the other.”

Here’s Eugene Volokh’s entire post.

If I may, I would like to address Eugene’s observation, above.  Rational analysis of why more people are exercised over this than fingerprint gun interlocks should lead one to the conclusion that almost every Tom, Dick and Harry owns a vehicle.  Not everyone owns a handgun, and, in fact, I would posit that a large percentage of New Mexico residents would prefer that individuals not be able to own a handgun.  Got it?

Posted by John Venlet on 02/19 at 01:23 PM
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