Police Chief Art Acevedo Wants to Draw Blood for Texas DWI in Austin

You are surprised? The Bush Administration has aggressively and successfully attacked Americans’ 4th and 10th Amendments Rights, aided by their lapdog Supreme Court and the cowardly, co-opted and complicit Congress.

The Roman Empire lasted, all in all, around 600 years. We in America will be lucky to make it to 250–but isn’t it interesting to note that the Fall of both Empires corresponds exactly and accurately to the rise of Fundamental Christians in the bureaucratic power structure.

I’m just sayin’…

This is how they want to build the national identification database, and the DWI is just a ruse to get the blood for DNA samples...

Absolutely illegal. This is a medical procedure that is to be performed by medical professionals. A person has the right to chose which medical procedures they want to submit to. If an officer were to extract blood by force, this would be assault and battery - no "force" is reasonable in this situation. Complete insanity. They would literally have to kill me first to get a blood sample. "Resistance is not futile - it's mandatory!"

Unfortunately all you have to do is to see one of the "JAIL" programs on the Austin CW TV programing to understand that any protest at all is reacted to as if it was an attack to the officers involved. Passivity is the only response that will keep you safe once arrested. Safe meaning out of brutally applied hand cuffs or the "chair" or a human mussel of sorts. The bizarre scene is related in the show as if the officers are in the "right" ...I wonder if Virginia ever learned why she was there...she kept saying "I did not do anything wrong..." she was at her home ..she had consumed some alcohol...but why was she there. The truth is that a person has no voice until they are out of JAIL and with a Lawyer and even that is suspect depending on the Lawyer you pick and the advice he gives.

This is great!!Btw, it's not violating any rights; police would be allowed to get a blood sample before from a dwi suspect, if they refused a breath test-however it would have to be done by a nurse. Nurses didnt get into their proffession to go to court and testify against dwi suspects.. police officers do. Therefor, the chief wants to get a certain number of officers trained in this task, so that nurses are not dragged into these situations. Also, less dirtballs will be able to get off their dwi charge by hiring a top-dollar attorney, because the hard evidence of their blood sample will be present.

What gives these people the right to your blood that runs through your veins? If all men are created equal, what gives 1 or even 100,000 men the right to forcably draw blood from another? Excersise your freedom.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
-Benjamin Franklin

This is so wrong in so many ways. It seems like every since 9-11 the american poeple have forgot who we are really after. To me it seems like the goverment is after its own people. Blood tests, no HABEAS CORPUS, and and the bailout of banks. People, wake the FUCK up. I have never got a DWI but, i am outraged to see so many americans just give there rights up. When u give BIG Goverment power what do they do with it, abuse it.. THINK ABOUT IT...We are not dumb, slow, or lazy how they think we are. You have a voice so let it be heard!!!!!!!

for a second I thought you were being sarcastic,but I guess not,and so I have to say,it is people like you and that ASSWIPE of a"police chief" who are exactly what's wrong with America today!
this is a SLAP on every FREE MAN's face!a slap to DEMOCRACY,a slap to the constitution and a slap on the face of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

it is amazing how some people are so desperate to score some PATHETIC points in the books of their bosses,and are happily willing to kiss some major ASS to the NASTY PHONY ZEALOTUS special interest groups!some people just can't live with freedom,they can't stand the very idea of it!

some peope are just happy to live their lives in a cowardly existence and would try their best to force others to SUBMIT to tyranny in any form or shape!tyranny of hate,tyranny of fear and tyranny of anger are what we have in America today, disguised as "security" , "mothers" and "legal system"!

those people are the REAL threat to this country!a threat that is so devious,persistent and worse of all SYSTEMATIC!I and millions like me who value freedom and human rights,can live with the "threat" of alcohol any day before we drag our country and our children's future on the same muddy humiliating road on which nazi germany and communist soviet union had been!

"first,they came for the jews,and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a jew...and then they came for me,but there was no one left to speak out for me".. stand up for your rights people,stand up for your brothers and sisters who have been turned into "criminals" for life over night with no ACTUAL crime.

and for those who hate freedom and civil liberties so bad,GO TO CHINA.

You are very wrong my friend. I hope that you are so cheary when they are getting warrants to in an hour to search your house and find religious paraphenelia. You see... this is how it works... The more they whittle away at peoples rights = your rights that you hold so dear and the same rights that our forefathers wrote into the constitution being eliminated. Police officers turning into phlobotemist is absurd. The medical field doesn't want to touch this because of the potential for lawsuits in the future. I'll say this again that there is a good reason why this is just one lawsuit away from getting Mr. Acevedo into a criminal conviction that he can't dig out of. The APD is not beyond lawsuits.

This is not great Joe. You are being blinded by anger and fear.
We do not wish to allow random physical violations by young highly adrenalized young men. Civilization must remain. Let us choose a higher plane for ourselves and for the future generations.

Prior to this, NOBODY got your blood. If you refused a breathilizer you went to jail.... no cop, paramedic, nurse or doctor took your blood.

This is a total violation of 4th amendment. And even if they are doing this with warrants it is still illegal. The government can not force you to give them a blood sample. Although there is a huge federal database that stores the DNA of everyone who was born in the last 35 to 40 years. But I'm digressing. Bottom line is that this is a criminal operation and this police chief should be arrested. Look I don't like drunk drivers either but you have to decide what the bigger threat is. Drunk drivers have never murdered hundreds of millions of people governments on the other hand have. Government's always go bad when they get this much power. And to my knowledge they didn't have cops taking people's blood on the side of the road in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. This is something that not even the most tyrannical governments in the last few hundred years have done. It just goes to show that we are in some really serious trouble and that we are losing all of our freedoms at an increasing alarming rate.

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For those of us who having our blood drawn is a traumatic experience much less by force this is a violation of the 8th amendment. It's cruel and unusual punishment. How dare they violate the sanctity of person?!! I am a child of God not a piece of meat! This is just Satanic and evil. They would do the inhuman before doing the human thing of providing free public transportation which our society by now should have. They are pushing the people to an ugly revolt against tyranny. It's a God given right to abolish the government!

idiots likes this guy are taking freedom from us every day right underneith our noses, and turning this country into a communist piece of shit. calling everybody a criminal to get them on a file with a little number. day by day our so called rights are being fucked over by these power hungry people and using security and protection as a cover so people will actually go along with it. we need a revolution.

Acevedo announced on 590 KLBJ, January 7th his 'new vision' of people shepharding in the Greater Austin Area. Turns out that he's looking for federal funding to send police officers into a training program to become blood drawers with the end result of being about to serve the search warrant roadside.
That's right, roadside assistance at it's best. I do not wish to see drunk driving but I don't want to see Police officers taking blood in a non sterile environment either. This whole vision is one lawsuit away from dissolving. If the police are going to attempt to entrap it's citizens why not turn the table and entrap the police. Either way, it's an invasion of privacy and a Gestapo move by the one and only Police Chief Acevedo.

I don't think this could be stopped through legal actions!the so called independence of judicial system is nothing but a MYTH in today's America
,especially when "special interest" groups and lobbyists are involved!

haven't you heard about the BULLIES sent by MADD to "monitor" court rooms in litigations concerning "drunk driving"?

in such litigations,the prosecuters,the jury and the judges,can't afford to be anything but "obedient minions" to MADD's wishes,otherwise,they'll suffer all kinds of harassments and possibly PUNISHMENTS!

I say you fight fire with even stronger fire!DUI laws have destroyed way too many lives and liberties,thanks to MADD,backed with the blessings of SPINELESS politicians,compromised judicial system and mislead public!

those MILLIONS who have suffered the consequences of such corrupt laws and biased system,have no choice but to REVERSE the process by forming their own INTEREST GROUP,and to AGRESSIVELY advocate for a TOTAL REFORM of DUI policies,while pushing those BULLIES named MADD back into whatever shitholes they came from!

"Non-consensual Chemical Testing (NCT) Program - Implied consent laws were intended to avoid confrontations with intoxicated persons by providing for the suspension of their driving privilege for refusing to submit to a chemical test. The enactment of implied consent laws did not, however, eliminate the option of forcibly taking blood samples from persons arrested for DUI who refuse to consent to a chemical test to determine their BAC. As such, the CHP developed NCT programs to allow for the forcible removal of blood samples from intoxicated individuals who otherwise refuse to submit to chemical testing".

the paragraph above was copied as it exactly appears on california highway patrol webpage under "impaired driving-enforcement programs".

YOU and your LOVED ONES will soon be FORCED to have your BLOOD drawn by a COP in a NON STERILE environment at the sole DISCRETION of a COP!

if this is not enough to raise the hair on your neck and urge you to stand up for your DEAD and MUTILATED rights,then allow me to welcome you to 21st century NAZI GERMANY.

My husband was arrested for DWI after a slight fender bender on Super Bowl '09. Problem is, he wasn't over the legal limit. He spent 3 days in jail, we were headed to another state because he was going offshore for work and he lost out on over a month's pay AND he had to explain to his company why, we spent $4000 in lawyer fees etc... His court file reads very poorly in his favor because when he was arrested, they had to give reason for obtaining a search warrant for his blood. The blood report was in the very back of the file clearly stating his levels were incredibly below the legal limit. Now charges have been dropped because obviously it's not a DWI but it will end up being a VERY costly ticket and his license was suspended until further told otherwise. I would like to know how I get compensated for the police's error and what it cost us.