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Title: Lawyer: Alcohol testing device is racist
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CONNPOST.com
URL Source: http://www.connpost.com/ci_11021578?source=most_viewed
Published: Nov 21, 2008
Author: DANIEL TEPFER
Post Date: 2008-11-21 13:55:00 by James Deffenbach
Keywords: None
Views: 315
Comments: 12
A lawyer representing a man arrested in Fairfield for drunken driving says the state's breathalyzers discriminate against black people. "They are KKK in a box," said lawyer James O. Ruane of Shelton. "We really have some racist machines here." Ruane represents Tyrone Brown, 40, of Burritt Avenue, Norwalk, who was arrested April 9 by the state police on Interstate 95 in Fairfield and charged with drunken driving. A breath analysis administered at state police Troop G in Bridgeport found Brown had a blood-alcohol content of 0.188. The legal limit is 0.08. In a motion filed Tuesday in Superior Court, Ruane asked a judge to suppress his client's breathalyzer test results, contending the device used by the state police, and most other local police departments, the Intoxilyzer 5000, discriminates against blacks. Brown is an African-American. Assistant State's Attorney Mark Durso declined comment on the motion. Ruane claims the lung capacity of a black man is 3 percent smaller than a white man and, therefore, black men's test results vary from the sobriety standard set by the device. He said Dr. Michael Hlastala, a lung physiologist at the University of Washington, examined research of other lung physiologists and, based on his studies, has determined the Intoxilyzer 5000 does not effectively test the blood-alcohol content of black men. "He looked at all the research and came up with the bigger picture and found the common Advertisement Quantcast thread," he said. Ruane said he intends to have Hlastala testify on Brown's behalf. "The data is very clear," he said.
Poster Comment: Tyrone bese innocent, sho as $#it! Honkey mofos done shafted another brutha.
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#1. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
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"Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory" Dies ist gut And here I would have thought it discriminated against Russians and Irish with a few Native Americans thrown in for good measure.
"This beats the siht out of living in Alex Karras's pocket!"
HA HA HA
"Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory" Dies ist gut Yeah, but you know how da man always be screwin' wid Tyrone. Brutha can't git a break, y'know?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeee-it! Sing it homey. It all be aimed at keepin' da bruthas down. Drinkin' n' Drivin' laws is all a racist plot.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
Daz rat! An' dat seat belt $#it too! Dey always bese after Tyrone 'bout dat. An' da speed limit deal--what up wid dat? An' las' week Tyrone bese takin' de chirren to da movie and dey stop him because he doan have them tykes belted in or sumthin' like that. But de judge done tole him de week befo not to be beltin' da chirren so he's damned if he do and damned if he don't.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. LOL! I have that one in my image shack account too.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I've heard several cultural marxist types claim that IQ tests are racist. Just saying... :) I'd love to get a small group of these people together and try to have an honest conversation with them, but as much as they deny the truth they see with their own eyes, I doubt they would shed their blinders for any ideas that make them uncomfortable.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
Oh, dem damnable IQ tests! Dat one and urine tests be de bane ob Tyrone's existence! (Seriously, I have heard the same thing and gave it all the weight I thought it deserved....so little as to be negligible).
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It's all part of the clandestine war on common sense. "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
Seems to be.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
#2. To: James Deffenbach, lodwick, Original_Intent (#0)
A lawyer representing a man arrested in Fairfield for drunken driving says the state's breathalyzers discriminate against black people.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. —Thomas Jefferson, 1802
#3. To: Beendigen Sie die Kommunisten (#1)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
#5. To: farmfriend (#2)
And here I would have thought it discriminated against Russians and Irish with a few Native Americans thrown in for good measure.
Lord Acton
#6. To: James Deffenbach, farmfriend (#5)
#7. To: Original_Intent (#6)
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeee-it! Sing it homey. It all be aimed at keepin' da bruthas down. Drinkin' n' Drivin' laws is all a racist plot.
Lord Acton
#8. To: Beendigen Sie die Kommunisten (#1)
Lord Acton
#9. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
(Edited)
Ruane claims the lung capacity of a black man is 3 percent smaller than a white man and, therefore, black men's test results vary from the sobriety standard set by the device.
#10. To: Dakmar (#9)
I've heard several cultural marxist types claim that IQ tests are racist. Just saying... :)
Lord Acton
#11. To: James Deffenbach (#10)
#12. To: Dakmar (#11)
It's all part of the clandestine war on common sense.
Lord Acton
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