Arizona the police state

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a blatant profiling bill into law, securing Arizona’s title as the first official police state in the nation. If enacted, a whopping 30% of Arizonans – or nearly two million Latinos—would be walking around with a target on their backs.

Under the law, police must stop anyone who they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe may be an “illegal immigrant.” President Obama slammed the new law as a severely “misguided” way to deal with immigration. Republican lawmakers, on the other hand, are scrambling to excuse the fact that the bill mandates racial profiling and could waste hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. According to Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA), former lobbyist for the anti-immigrant group behind the bill, FAIR, police can use plenty of other cues—like people’s hair, or shoes—to determine immigration status.

What these idiots don’t realize – aside from the fact that this is America and not Iraq – is how corrupt the agencies behind these “safety” initiatives really are. The same goes for DUI. Arizona is the only state in the Union with “slightest degree” laws, meaning you can theoretically be arrested for rinsing with Listerine or taking a spoonful of cough syrup before getting into the car. That may be rare, but if you read the Arizona Revised Statutes, you will be arrested for DWI at .05, then DUI at .08. Which is a joke to differentiate the two because they carry the same fines and sentences.

Anyone who believes DUI laws have anything to do with “safety” is an idiot. Every single scientific and medical study done proves that driving does not become unsafe until approximately .14. In fact, using cell phones while driving has been documented to kill more people every year than drunken driving! But, there are no fanatical groups like MADD going after cell phones and lobbying our money-grubbing politicians to ban them, so instead they choose drinking.

If you care one bit about yourself, your loved ones, and about the principles of freedom, get the hell out of Arizona. It’s not getting better – it’s only going to get worse as tax revenues continue to fall and the crooked politicians look for more and more ways to steal your money from you. While ruining your life in the process for good measure.