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?The Politics of Modern Prohibition?

By Lawrence Taylor

Recently, it seems that there has been an increasing willingness of the media willing to reject political correctness and MADD’s hysteria, instead adopting a more objective and reasoned approach to the question of traffic safety… Our View:  The Politics of Modern Prohibition Colorado Springs, CO.  May 4 –Do not drink and drive. Do not drink and drive, do not drink and drive, do not drink and drive. There. It has been said. The Gazette’s editorial board officially opposes drinking and driving. It’s a truly bad idea. With that out of the way, it’s time to raise the question: Why does law enforcement aggressively seek to prohibit drinking and driving, severely punishing some drivers who’ve had a few drinks and caused no harm, while tolerating an array of other dangerous driving conditions? The answer might be the politics of modern prohibition, or the political feasibility of enacting controls over people who drink but not people who are too old or too ill to drive safely, or those too busy texting, eating, shaving or looking at maps to pay attention to traffic around them… Our criminal justice system does not demand that most people with dementia stop driving, even though it’s a condition that can cause them to crash...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).