Well, when we read these three items it got us thinking how prescient George Lucas may have been:
Apparently Arizona has decided it is the officer's choice, not the detainee's choice, whether to use a breathalyzer, urine sample or blood sample. (We have real concern over possible abuse. Let us see - "Yes, your Honor. He attempted to resist so I put him on the ground and handcuffed him face down. As I handcuffed him I smelled alcohol so I stuck him with a hypodermic needle to draw blood. The first four sticks were unsuccessful."). Would you want a police officer to take blood from you in the field, with no witnesses and without proper medical supervision?
The Posse Comitatis Act, a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385), generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act. (Seems to us the CHP/USMC "partnership" in local roadblocks is illegal and just one step away from a police state.)
Apparently Arizona has decided it is the officer's choice, not the detainee's choice, whether to use a breathalyzer, urine sample or blood sample. (We have real concern over possible abuse. Let us see - "Yes, your Honor. He attempted to resist so I put him on the ground and handcuffed him face down. As I handcuffed him I smelled alcohol so I stuck him with a hypodermic needle to draw blood. The first four sticks were unsuccessful."). Would you want a police officer to take blood from you in the field, with no witnesses and without proper medical supervision?
The Posse Comitatis Act, a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385), generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act. (Seems to us the CHP/USMC "partnership" in local roadblocks is illegal and just one step away from a police state.)
The project is supposedly to create a robotic soldier that won't commit "war crimes". (I wonder whether they can be programmed to draw your blood?)
So you see, 38 years after THX 1138 debuted, a world of robotic military personnel roaming our streets and enforcing our drug laws is not that far off.