Letters to the editor for July 4, 2009

On the first Fourth of July, Americans were officially "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights ... Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." The Founding Fathers knew our rights were gifted by a higher authority, not by men who could take them away.

[RandyNason]

Please explain why the rights of those who drink and drive, who voluntarily risk people's lives, are more important than the rights of innocent victims.
W.B. Morton

I'm convinced the reason is because between repeated traffic and court fines, subsidized and required drunken driving programs and defense attorney fees, DUI charges and resultant expenses are considered big business money-makers. Believe me, if the state wasn't making money on it somehow/some way, it wouldn't be going on at all. It all boils down to the money box and whoever is involved in the associated lobbying process.

[Have you not heard]

Next time at the ballot box, vote with your brain and not your party.

[T-Boy]

yes

[MaxAmp]

no