If you have been arrested for DUI and have a BAC over 0.08 or refused the BAC, you will face either a suspension of your license 60 days after your arrest or a Hearing with the esteemed Department of Licensing. If you are facing such a hearing you will come “face to face” (not literally) with one of the DOL’s Hearing Officers. You are therefore in for a real treat. To be perfectly frank, there are several DOL hearing officers who are well informed, fair, professional, and treat petitioners (DUI drivers) with courtesy and respect. However, there are others who are not. Obviously I will not disclose in a DUI blog who the bad DOL hearing officer’s are, but these few individuals subscribe to the theory that the power they enjoy is absolute. This belief of mine, shared by most, reminds me of the following:
The historian and moralist, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Another English politician with no shortage of names - William Pitt, the Elder, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He did say something similar, in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770:
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."
So to summarize, DOL Hearing Officers have substantial power in their limited context of deciding the outcome of DOL Hearings. This power has seemingly corrupted many of the minds at the DOL. This then would explain many of the seemingly erroneous, illogical, and plain stupid decisions some of these power-mongering DOL hearing officers have rendered over the years. Nothing else would explain it!
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