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Originally Posted by elan
Look at the vote, it's overwhelming. Laws, Acts, and Legislation Apparently it's what the people of Ohio wanted. For whatever reason, they felt it was needed. States can govern themselves, it's none of my business. |
Except that you don't really know how the majority in your state would vote, and now there's a precedent. Would you truly have an "oh well" sort of attitude if your state (and every state you thought of moving to to escape this idiocy) decided to do this? What if the next majority voted to ban your particular religious views, or some other demographic you may be a minority in?
Some freedoms should not be vulnerable to majority rule (or what we're told is majority rule...)
Besides, most of the people who voted "Yes" probably thought that cops and judges can read and remember the important aspects of the law (when the rest of us know they cannot).
The law was to ban "designing, building, constructing, fabricating, modifying, or altering a vehicle to create or add a hidden compartment
with the intent to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, prohibit operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment
with knowledge that the hidden compartment is used or intended to be used to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance"
You see, we all know this means that prosecutors should have to prove there was intent to use these compartments for hiding drugs before they have any case (and before the defendant loses his ability to sue the officer who arrested him).
But cops and judges (and juries, don't wanna leave them out) are often illiterate and/or just plain evil. That's why this law is backfiring on the state of Ohio, because they took the law for how it reads and the powers that be take the law for how they can ignore essential bits and pieces.
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