I didn’t fully comment and the post was getting long so broke it up a little:
“So MADD created a whole industry of judges, cops, attorneys and prosecuters??? Wow, even THEY don’t think that they had THAT much power. “
Clearly you are aware that the .08 BAC built law offices, Assistant DA offices, Bail Bond businesses all over the country. This is reality. It is what it is.
Yes, I am. I am also aware that EVERY single thing we see on the boobustubus is a packaged, pre-thought out product for us to believe in, consume and wholehearted embrace.
Drunken drivers kill more people every year than all the soldiers we lost in Vietnam. I can sympathize with those folks who lost their loved ones to drunken drivers. I don't drink any more and I hate driving at night. I ALWAYS was out of the bars and ALMOST home a good 3/4 hour before the bars closed (2:00 A.M.) and thus avoided most of them. I was NEVER, EVER stopped for drinking/driving. I was NEVER that stupid.
How else would you and I know SO MUCH about that business?
"Dog" and "Beth" wouldn't have made it on to the 3:00 A.M. C-rated movies 20 years ago. Now they have a NAME and their own T.V. show.
As I recall, one of the shows that started it was America's Most Wanted. It was THE most HORRIBLE event in John Walsh's life that precipitated his show but his agony, anger and persistence started something HUGE and good.