'Drug offender' could be added to licenses

[kpete]

Source: Shreveport Times

BATON ROUGE — Second-conviction felony drug dealers should have that noted on their driver's licenses, a House committee said Tuesday.

The House Transportation, Highways and Public Works Committee unanimously approved House Bill 139 by Rep. Rickey Hardy, D-Lafayette, after increasing the fee assessed on offenders from $10 to $25 to cover the cost of issuing a special license with "DRUG OFFENDER" in bright orange on the bottom. Similar licenses with "SEX OFFENDER" already are issued to people convicted of certain sex crimes.

Hardy said the main goal of his legislation is to "give the officer who would stop that person a heads-up who he's dealing with, to let him know that person has been involved in criminal activity and might be armed."

The legislation was supported by state police Maj. Dewayne White.

Read more: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100407/NEWS01/4070318/1004/LIVING/Drug-offender-could-be-added-to-licenses

[XemaSab]

1. I have an alternate suggestion

We legalize all drugs and stuff the prohibition nonsense into the garbage can of history.

[naaman fletcher]

15. amen.

[defendandprotect]

22. +1000% . . . but I'm starting to think too embedded in MIC now . . . national security ... that is .

excuse to invade other countries!!

[Deep13]

2. Maybe it should read, "It's okay, I'm cool." nt

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Fuck every piece of shit that keeps trying to ratchet up the drug war.

God damn them all.

[LisaM]

4. As long as it also gets put on the driver's licenses of doctors who overprescribe

and rich people who doctor-shop for multiple prescriptions. Then I'm fine with it. Otherwise, not so much.

[tridim]

5. Pharmacies and liquor stores owners are exempt of course.

[ashling]

6. Liscnses of Republicans should be emblazoned with

TERMINALLY STUPID

[boppers]

7. I guess "DUMB ENOUGH TO GET CAUGHT TWICE" wouldn't fit?

It's a bit of an IQ indicator on the drivers license, so maybe printing an IQ number isn't far behind.

[snappyturtle]

8. What's ever happened to paying one's debt to society? I'm thinking about

drug offenders in particular. I wonder if this decision might hinder recovery....I just don't like this idea.

[Doremus]

12. Thank you.

That *was* the point of serving time/paying fines, etc., to pay one's debt to society?

Guess that notion has become "quaint" too.

[Occulus]

19. The sex offender registries already put paid to that idea.

Next it will be drug offenders, as we see in this OP. After that, assaulters. Then we'll decide grand theft auto will be reason for being on a list. Following that, it's a short step to thieves in general. Then we'll move to misdemeanor convictions. Once those categories are on a list, we'll add simple moving violations.

All because we started with sex offender registries, which made such lists oh so very very easy to rationalize.

I told you all when this started with the sex offenders. I bloody told everyone here that exactly this would happen, and was labeled as a "sex offender apologist" or some such. Well, well, well. I guess I was right after all.

:grr:

We should not tolerate any public "lists", even for sex offenders. We should not keep such public lists at all!

If the Authoritarians have their way, every last least littlest criminal will be on a "list", and we will thereby create a class of society that is unhousable, unemployable, ineducable, and generally "undesirable". And guess what will happen when we have a large segment of "undesirables", and a party willing to implement a "final solution" to that "problem"?

Hyperbole? Well, it was. Until we started keeping lists.

[TygrBright]

9. And a little more of the Constitution shreds away to dust...

Soon there will be nothing left.

sadly,
Bright

[Dogtown]

10. Very bad. n/t

[Duer 157099]

11. What? No scarlet letter?

This just creeps me out.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. We're moving forward...

[enlightenment]

13. Hmm - no "ALCOHOL OFFENDER" category?

They'd make a fortune off that one . . .

:sarcasm:

So much for paying one's debt to society.

[KamaAina]

16. to "give the officer who would stop that person a heads-up"

who he's dealing with, to let him know that person has been involved in criminal activity and might be armed."

Mmm-kay. And the point of putting "SEX OFFENDER" on licenses is? :shrug:

[Moosepoop]

17. This bright idea came from Rep. Rickey Hardy -- a Democrat!!

Well, a supposed Democrat, anyway.

Also supported by another Democrat:

Rep. Sam Jones, D-Franklin, who got the committee to increase the fee so it covers the license cost, told Hardy "I wouldn't mind amending the bill to paint their cars white with pink polka dots."

Louisiana has some problem "Democratic" representatives. One other Dem, Barbara Norton, raised the only objection, to her credit.

[BolivarianHero]

23. You mean a "Democrat"...

Hobbies include attending NRA rallies, lynching negroes, burning crosses, and drinking shitty moonshine brewed by his inbred uncle.

[grahamhgreen]

18. What we need is a list of convictions under corporate logos - not this!

[proteus_lives]

20. They should do this with sex offenders.

[notadmblnd]

21. And murderers and thieves and child molesters and embezzlers and people

that commit fraud and drunk drivers. If they can list one crime on a drivers license, then they can list all crimes on a driver's license. Why just single out one group of criminals?

[JCMach1]

24. Why not brand it on their forehead for that matter...?

Would be about the same...

Think how many transactions require a DL

[Rapier09]

25. That is not a R next to his name

Just sayin'

[Heywood J]

26. Congratulations on increasing the number of jobs in the fake ID industry!

Either that, or people with one conviction will be induced to keep old, expired licenses to try and alter the dates. A fake ID won't fool a cop with a computer in his cruiser, but you can bet the market will boom for forgeries to be used in other situations where privacy is preferred.

Hell, I think putting a label on the license for alcohol offenders is of far more "violence-prevention" value to an officer than this. Not that this matters anyway, as by the time the police officer actually sees your license, he's right next to you and thus already vulnerable to attack. The officer also has access via the DMV and plate number to the information regarding the owner of the vehicle and can prepare himself that way.

[rocktivity]

27. Second conviction felony drug offenders shouldn't have a license at all

Does the state need the revenue from the license fees THAT much?

:eyes:
rocktivity