More good reading

Radley Balko has an excellent article over at Tech Central Station.

As usual, the laws created because We Must Do Something lead to less effective enforcement and more erosion of our rights.

Given I think DUI/DWI laws should be unnecessary, as the damage caused by a drunk driver should simply be considered a crime as any other property crime (with penalties similar to that of an idiot who waves a gun about and shoots someone), I'd say eliminate them altogether, and hold those who cause damage or injury criminally responsible - not just a yank of the license, either.

But the appoach of eliminating the 5th Amendment in the case of suspicion of DUI isn't working, and isn't appropriate.