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Fascist Police State Ping! Again, I have to laugh at everyone on this thread that is advocating coming down hard on drinkers, while 90 year old granny that has severly diminished capabilities is allowed to roam the streets in her Crown Victoria, mowing down pedestrians. AT MY DRUNKEST, I could drive better than 99% of old people - that's a FACT.

The whole DUI industry is driven by hysteria and dollars. It is a giant cash cow, and hysterical MADD people keep getting the limits lower and lower, and thousands of people each week who can hold their liquor and get home safe are turned into criminals. The only drunks that need to be removed are the problem drunks that cannot function properly - the rest of us should be able to have 2 or 3 beers and be allowed to drive home without going to jail. I'm sick of the DUI industry and all the pansies that drive their collective fears into a force that makes the rest of us less free. last night I left a restaurant completely able to drive home without killing anyone, and as I leave the establishment I see a cop down the street radioing that people are leaving the place. Sure enough a cruiser comes by and pulls us over, I have to do the dance, I'm just below the limit. I alnmost had my career ruined because I had 2 beers. You DUI nazis stink!

The fact is that it isn't the drinking that people are coming down on. It is in FACT the DRIVING in combination with the drinking that is the issue. While you raise a fair point about 'blue hairs' and their ability to drive, that is, indeed, a seperate subject. Mixing the two only attempts to deflect the wrongs in one situation by pointing out the wrongs in another situation. If you could defend the right in the situation of driving when drinking you would not resort to such tactics as you have.

You sir, have every right to drink and I support that right 100%. When driving is added to the context things change. Do you think that you have a right to drive drunk? If so, where does that right come from? Where does it exist?

I laugh at folks that try to discount and dismiss one wrong by posing another, totally seperate wrong.

I would like to see you make the case that you have a right to drive drunk based on the merits of driving drunk.....as opposed to using examples of other things that are improper as well. My bet is that you cannot and will not do so.

Instead of using the 'blue hairs' or the cell phones or the sleepy driver as reasons not to address drunk driving, how about pushing for all these things to be addressed?

I have to laugh at everyone on this thread that is advocating coming down hard on drinkers, while 90 year old granny that has severly diminished capabilities is allowed to roam the streets in her Crown Victoria, mowing down pedestrians. AT MY DRUNKEST, I could drive better than 99% of old people - that's a FACT.

Would 'shoot on sight' be considered 'advocating coming down hard on drinkers' (and drivers)? Then you are laughing at me. More-friends-and-relatives-killed-by-drunk-drivers-than-granny-drivers ping.