“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
Studying history helps to understand how governments use federal agencies, police departments, and courts to perpetuate illegal witch hunts for political causes. Let’s look at the 6 million Jews that the German government killed in Europe. People forget that it was not renegades who caused the Holocaust. Instead, it was the politicians and the courts. The parallels between the successful government campaigns of the Nazis in World War II and today’s DWI enforcement are similar.
Going back to their 1977 development by Dr. Marcelline Burns of the Southern California Research Institute (not associated with university academia) none of the SFSTs have been able to pass basic scientific muster for their use as intoxication tools. The data released in connection with the 1977 and 1981 studies showed “face validity” and “subjective evaluation” which does not add up to accuracy, reliability, or validity. After receiving much criticism due to the lack of scientific merit of the tests, Dr. Burns refused to release the underlying data of the latest studies to attempt to confirm the SFSTs at .08 from .10. Yet the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been unrelenting in its support and use of these tests.
The Nazis in World War II created the federal Department of Hygiene to enforce their policies of ethnic cleansing. In DWI enforcement, that arm of the government is the NHTSA. Rather than consult and work within scientifically established guidelines, they continue to perpetuate substandard work not subjected to scientific peer review to issue DWI mandates (what constitutes failures on tests, etc.). Their most recent Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN, otherwise known as the “eye” test) publication, The Robustness of the HGN, had data so deficient and untenable that they sat on the research for five years but decided to publish it anyway despite their own charts contradicting the merits of their claims. For example, some tables show 67+ % false positives!
In January of 1937, Jews were legally banned from professional occupations including teachers, accountants and dentists. Today, citizens convicted of DWI in their personal vehicle in many states are banned from their commercial occupations. The court’s use of an ignition interlock as a condition of bond is also costing citizens their jobs and livelihoods.
Fairness and justice are the founding principles of this country. It’s time to strip back the Nazi-like statutes and enforcement of politicized DWIs. It violates our laws and good science. It is time to get back to honest law enforcement and true accountability. The witch hunt must stop.
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