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To: elkfersupper

Please explain


117 posted on 11/18/2008 9:28:56 PM PST by NinoFan
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To: NinoFan
Please explain

The term of art whenever you see a news story or hear about the "DWI Crisis" is "alcohol-related"<>"Alcohol-related" means that if anyone at the scene (driver, passenger, pedestrian, etc. was "perceived" by the cop in charge to have a blood alcohol content of .01% or above, the incident is "alcohol-related".

Also, if whatever happened is within throwing-distance of a liquor establishment, or if there happens to be a 1940's-vintage beer can in the ditch next to the wreck, that is also "alcohol-related"

If a train carrying booze plows into a school bus and neither school bus driver nor locomotive engineer was "drunk", that is "alcohol-related".

Neoprohibitionists used these made-up statistics to make alcohol transportation, possession and consumption anywhere into what is now de facto prohibition.

One can still buy alcohol (surprise - tax revenue), one just cannot transport or consume it anywhere without the possibility (soon probability) of arrest.

127 posted on 11/19/2008 8:03:18 PM PST by elkfersupper
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