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To: LPS5 who wrote (7698)	8/9/2004 2:57:47 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 20039

Reckless driving is the infraction; not what an individual has in their blood or what they were doing before they got behind the wheel. I could accept defining drunk driving as reckless driving and punishing someone else for being reckless. But merely being drunk on a public highway while operating a car is reckless. It does greatly increase the risk of those around you. As for reckless driving itself I don't think going twenty miles an hour above the speed limit should automatically be called reckless driving. Many 55mph highways can support cars going 75+mph without it being dangerous or reckless. I could support reasonably strong penalties for really reckless driving but I don't agree with how reckless is defined. Similarly, I believe that murder should be a felony, but I don't support the "special circumstances" caveats that delineate such ridiculous legal concepts as (a) "hate crime(s)." I agree with you on this. At most the elements that sometimes make the crime considered a "hate crime" should be considered aggravating circumstances. They should not be another crime. Tim