Ban The Sale Of Beer

dudebert^

Yep.

And, what gets me is that an accident can occur for other reasons, even if one of the drivers has been drinking, but if someone 'blows', then that is automatically almost always cited as either the majority of the cause of the accident, if not THE cause, whether it truly was or not.

In our zeal to decrease actual drunk driving accidents, too many kool aid drinkers want to use this ‘cause’ as yet another way to feed their never-ending, obsessive urge to control others and to feel smug self-righteousness while at the same time suspending critical thought.

This zeal has also resulted in what I consider unconstitutional checkpoints, and here in California, the state apparently is not making enough money from drunk drivers at these checkpoints to justify the taxpayer dollars spent to operate them and apparently feel they are not pulling in enough of this 'sin' revenue, so they are expanding their searches (and seizures, which are big bucks) to a myriad of 'other' things (wanting to search cars, and some even are now third-degreeing passengers). I just don't see how it can be constitutional to detain drivers simply for driving down a certain road at a certain time of night, whether it is advertised in a small section hidden within a newspaper or not.

It's just another way we are morphing into an Orwellian 'Minority Report' type of society.

And, now they are slowly releasing state-funded 'studies' via the media that say driving while tired or driving while taking a cold/sinus medication *can* be just as dangerous as driving drunk. This is just a precursor to justifying legislation for fining/criminalizing drivers whom they think police can determine are too 'tired' to drive or are driving after having taking a Sudafed for their allergy, to try to get through their workday. And, to stimulate yet another revenue generator while hiding behind the 'it's for our own good' excuse.

While the U.S. Supreme Court has made the DUI exemption to the Constitution, eleven states have found that sobriety checkpoints violate their own state constitutions or have outlawed them. In these states, individuals have more protections against unreasonable search and police sobriety roadblocks are prohibited.

And, while we spend our valuable police personnel resources on these sorts of things, we have copper thefts, home invasions, and gang-related crime booming out of control in our state.

"Anyone who will trade freedom for security deserves neither".

BTW: I do NOT drink alcohol.





11/16/12: The day the Twinkie died :(

It's funny - I used to feel like the OP. I hated, HATED beer because I perceived it as the root of all evil. Someone in my family was an alcoholic so I resented beer for many years.

As I got older, I realized that alcoholism is a disease. That if people drink, they have to take responsibility.

Which is really what Clean and Sober is about.