Not Oceania yet
The Associated Press is reporting that Gov. Jon Huntsman will oppose any proposal to create a statewide database to track drinkers' bar hopping. Huntsman, who has made updating Utah's restrictive liquor laws a priority, says electronically entering a patron into a law enforcement database would damage Utah's image nationally as a friendly place to visit.Huntsman told the AP's Brock Vergakis that he's in favor of scanning driver's licenses to keep minors out of bars, but he says government shouldn't track who drinks where. (Or Vergakis and most of the reporters at the Tribune — and yes, a few at KSL and the DNews — would be in a world of hurt.)
I think that would enhance the oddness of our laws. I think that for most people that is a rather frightening, almost Orwellian, proposition.Senate President Mike Waddoups, you can bone up on Orwellian here.
4 Comments:
I thought we were Eastasia! Shucks.
Come on. Everybody knows Waddoups knows this isn't going to pass. He's only doing it to build his cred with folks of his own persuasion. When it fails -- or the gov vetoes it -- then he can go to his constituents, shrug his shoulders, and say, "Sorry, folks. I tried."
Maybe Huntsman is aware of the suits that would follow for the invasion of citizens privacy?
After all, it is a constitutionally protected right.
Drunk is Sober,
Vodka is Water,
Waddoups is Sane
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