Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: jamaly
Since when did wanting to be safe from drunk drivers become political?

Since MADD started being more interested in being neo-prohibitionists than in actually reducing the number of traffic accidents and fatalities caused by alcohol. They broaden their definitions of "intoxicated" and "alcohol-related" so as to increase the number of "intoxicated" motorists and "alcohol-related" crashes, and then point to such increases as a basis for imposing even broader definitions of "intoxication".

71 posted on 07/06/2006 9:12:29 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies ]


To: supercat
Since MADD started being more interested in being neo-prohibitionists than in actually reducing the number of traffic accidents and fatalities caused by alcohol. They broaden their definitions of "intoxicated" and "alcohol-related" so as to increase the number of "intoxicated" motorists and "alcohol-related" crashes, and then point to such increases as a basis for imposing even broader definitions of "intoxication".

IMHO if the amount of alcohol someone has consumed affects their driving ability they should be arrested. If drugs, prescribed, over the counter or illegal hamper someones driving ability, they should be arrested. On any given weekend night 1 out of 10 cars has a drunk driver behind the wheel. Impaired drivers need to be stopped. No one has the right to endanger other people because they can't control their own behavior.

76 posted on 07/06/2006 9:22:36 PM PDT by jamaly (I will never forget 9-11-01!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson