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Wardens Want to Keep Lakes "Dry"


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Augusta - Maine wardens will be cracking down on impaired boaters this weekend as part of a national campaign called "Operation Dry Water."

In Maine, it is illegal to operate a boat with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent or higher.

The Warden Service will increase boating patrols around the state from Friday to Sunday. A news conference is planned Friday to discuss the weekend enforcement push.

Warden Service Lt. Adam Gormely says boaters face prospects of being checked. Those who are drinking will be tested, and those who are impaired will be arrested.

A similar initiative last year across the country resulted in 325 arrests, 4,370 citations and 8,763 warnings.

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I am not a boater & i do not drink, yet i am moved to voice my displeasure over this issue as it looks as a clear cut case of abuse of authoritative power. Case in point, a driver of an automobile on a public street must present probable cause for law enforcement to pull them over & initiate an "investigation". Yet law enforcement has granted themselves the presumed right to pull over & investigate any & every citizen boater operating in pubic waterways WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE !! The fact that the public meekly submits without protest to such unreasonable oppressive "supervision" is indicative of citizens that are not just over regulated, but have been aggressively subjugated through the "politics of intimidation", which in essence is a variation of progressive stress reflex response behavior modification methods of mind control. in case you have not realized, i suggest that ours is a society surreptitiously hypnotized. Wakey wakey, snap snap......time to wake up from that lifelong nap :)
gary gary 06/23/2012 10:17 pm

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