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CLICK HERE Double victims are victims of the drinking age and of drunk drivers.
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Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) See photo credit #1, below. NEWS LINK Republican Congressman Kevin Brady, busted for drunk driving on 7 October 2005, won re-election on 7 November 2006 by a 2-to-1 landslide, proving that most voters care about DWI only when it is a convenient excuse to violate the rights of people younger than 21. Business opportunity: A chance to lose or make money selling UDADDTM merchandise. CLICK HERE Start a local UDADDTM chapter: CLICK HERE
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Andrew Hopkins and Grace Chamberlain never got a chance to drink legally. They were both 18 when they were killed in a head-on crash on Route 700 in Burton Township, Ohio on 2 March 2006. Evan Dasilva, then 19, was critically injured, suffering fractures from head to leg, and permanently lost sight in one eye. All three attended Hiram College.
The suspect was 47 years old, had eleven prior DWI convictions on his record, fifteen suspensions against his license and 0.26% BAC by blood test.
Andrew and Grace didn’t have to perish. The State of Ohio could have sent that criminal to prison for some serious time. They had eleven chances. They don’t want to reduce drunk driving. It’s easier for legislators to pretend they’ve done something, by imposing the drinking age, than it is to impose serious drunk driving laws, which would apply to the lawmakers themselves.
“In 2005, 6,100 youth ages 15-20 were killed in traffic crashes—of those, 2,035 youth died in crashes involving alcohol.” http://madd.org/news/11493
Get a load of this!
The victims were 20. The drunk driver who
hit them was 22. Lisa Dickson’s dad joins MADD to promote prejudice against people
like his daughter, who never got a chance to drink legally. (According to
this he’s a chapter
president.) Then he writes a letter urging the judge to cut the drunk driver’s sentence,
because Mr. Dickson is with MADD and MADD does not care about drunk driving. Besides, the
killer did say he’s sorry. “All we were looking for was for him to
stand up and say, ‘You know what? I screwed up.’”
CLICK HERE. Makes sense to him. I mean, the killer was driving drunk, 0.20% BAC and killed
two innocent people on 11 May 2002, but, I mean, at least he wasn’t drinking under
age. VIEW LETTER IN .PDF
Phone that MADD Chapter at 1-850-983-6775 and listen to the recording. Think. MADD is making big bucks off drunk driving.
“Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for youth
ages fifteen to twenty (NHTSA 1997).”
U.S. Department of “Justice”
Click on headline for full article from the Nashua Telegraph.
Hold individuals responsible for their own respective actions
These high school students arrived late for their senior prom, but with quite a story to tell. They used a cell phone to report the limo driver, had her park mid-trip, and took the key. She got arrested for her third DWI. Of course, she is still free to buy all the booze she wants, but they can get arrested and hauled off to jail for having one can of beer. Is that fair? Who is more responsible?
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Democratic Presidential candidates Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich expressed support for lowering the drinking
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Don’t expect men and women under 21 to want to enlist in the National Guard when Congress and the state legislature show so much unprovoked hostility toward people that age, purely out of malice.
Don’t expect much respect for a law imposed as a consequence of overt Congressional bribery. What do people under 21 get from federal highway construction grants? Burned.
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UDADD demands the repeal of underage drinking laws, which will save lives because it will force legislators to pass tougher drunk driving laws on themselves.
Underage responsible drinkers have a powerful incentive to demand punishment for drunk drivers: Underage responsible drinkers not only are being punished for drunk driving crimes they didn’t commit, they are also the innocent victims of such crimes.
All of the punishment for drunk driving crimes should be borne by the drunk drivers.
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A serious crackdown on drunk driving would save far more lives than the underage drinking laws, because the vast majority of drunk drivers are over 21.
More people walking home and more people under license suspension means more citizens complaining about laws and policies that favor motorists and penalize pedestrians. Powerful political interests want to avoid that.
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UDADD demands tougher drunk driving laws, which punish the criminals for their willful wrongdoing,
instead of punishing responsible drinkers for being under 21, which they cannot avoid. Drunk drivers would rather punish underage responsible drinkers. (“I can drive better drunk than they can sober.”) In Vermont, Governor Richard Snelling proved this in the 1980’s. Twice, he vetoed bills to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21, telling the Vermont Legislature to crack down on drunk driving. Under mounting pressure to “do something” about the carnage on the roads, the Vermont Legislature passed a bill to raise the penalties for drunk driving, which Governor Snelling signed.
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Outvoted discrimination victims: Don’t think you’re “fighting back” when you drink, as Rosa Parks fought back against discrimination when she refused to relinquish her seat. If you drink yourself to death, it doesn’t hurt drunk drivers or enemies of liberty one bit. Stick around and campaign for liberty.
Start today. If it’s between 9:00 and 17:30 in Washington, D.C., call both U.S. Senators and the U.S. Representative elected where you live, through the Capitol Switchboard at 1-202-225-3121. Otherwise, CLICK HERE. Demand the repeal of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act.
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Who really has a more legitimate right to govern what you eat and drink, you or some politicians you voted against?
The voters who elected those politicians have no right to regulate what you eat and drink, be it water, wine or turpentine.
As long as you’re not stealing it, you’re not violating anybody’s rights.
Repealing underage drinking laws does not imply approval of drinking by people under 21, any more than freedom of the press implies government approval of every editorial in the newspaper.
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Home Brewing
Why support companies that spend money telling their end-users not to buy for people under 21, when you can brew your own beer? CLICK HERE Don’t forget to demand an ID from yourself before you drink it, though.
ReasoningWithDrunks
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Some drunks have an inflated view of their driving skill. No amount of reasoning with them can change their wrong opinion. It would be like trying to reason with the hate-mongering MADD bigots about how their government has no right to impose the drinking age on you.
Avoid reasoning with anybody who is totally unreasonable. They have the right to their absurd opinion. Don’t worry that they will opine incorrectly, just make sure they don’t drive.
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Never accept a ride with a drunk driver. You would be putting innocent people in danger, just the same as if you were driving drunk. Don’t try to save a taxi fare playing blotto lotto.
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It’s not just the “reverse psychology” or “forbidden fruit psychology” impelling outvoted discrimination victims to drink more than most adults over 21. It’s also the “last call psychology”. If you get a chance to drink at 13, you may not get another chance for a long time, so you take the opportunity, much as adults over 21 order up at last call.
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Note that some kids will turn down coffee, which is available 24 hours a day at the convenience store, but won’t pass up a rare opportunity to drink an alcoholic beverage. These people get in the habit of drinking every chance they get. Some drinkers don't break this habit as the opportunities happen more and more often as they get older. In some cases, this leads to serious alcoholism, caused by restrictions on the availability of a beverage in what was supposed to be a free country, with liberty and justice for all.
If they give up on trying to buy beer because their first two attempts fail, that means the enemy wins. Outvoted discrimination victims may feel obligated to go to great lengths before surrendering to the enemy.
UDADD demands the repeal of underage drinking laws so that people under 21 can learn to drink under parental supervision at first, and then they can drink in supervised places such as bars if they desire.
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Furthermore, if there are no underage drinking laws, classmates are more likely to report a drunk driving away from their graduation kegger, and that report can save lives, especially if the government punishes the drunk before the drunk does it again eleven more times and finally causes a fatal crash.
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ExcuseRejected:Democracy
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The inherent natural rights of the citizen do not disappear with the manufacture of any document at the seat of government, no matter whether it is a statute, ruling, treaty or constitution.
The only authority the government has is authority delegated to it by the people, which in turn is limited to the authority of those people, who have no authority to regulate what other people can drink.
Drunk driving is recklessly endangering innocent people, a violation of their rights.
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The vast majority of voters have demonstrated their utterly total unwillingness to be vigilant guardians of the rights of people under 21. They’re fired.
These sponsors want states to build more roads, and want to perpetuate laws and practices that reward driving and punish people without cars.
It would not be in these sponsors’ best interest if drunk drivers lost their licenses for ten years for a first offense DWI, but it might be in yours.
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Have they even bothered to do the math? The state would get more alcoholic beverage tax money, especially with out-of-state discrimination victims stocking up.
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States should not surrender their authority for any price, let alone such a low price.
Not to imply that any level of government, other than individual self-government, has a right to impose a drinking age on an individual without his or her consent.
ExcuseRejected:BloodBorders
What about the blood borders between wet and dry counties? These affect people 21+, far more people than the under 21 crowd tempted to make an interstate pilgrimage.
The drinking age was 18 in all of New England, New York and New Jersey. The drinking age was raised in states adjoining Vermont, and Vermont was criticized for the resulting inequality.
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Bowie County, Texas is dry. Miller County, Arkansas is wet. The federal building straddles the blood border in downtown Texarkana. Texas side residents are tempted to drink in Arkansas and drive home.
Photo courtesy of Texarkana Chamber of Commerce. Used by permission.
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PHOTO CREDITS Note: Photographs are for illustration only. All quotes in voice balloons are created by this webmaster. Some politicians in these photos hold an office other than the one implied by the quotes in the voice balloons. On this site, DWI is used as a synonyn for drunk driving, even in cases where the local jurisdiction uses another acronym.
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Outvoted discrimination victims: Don’t think you’re “fighting back” when you drink, as Rosa Parks fought back against discrimination when she refused to relinquish her seat. If you drink yourself to death, it doesn’t hurt drunk drivers or enemies of liberty one bit. Stick around and campaign for liberty.
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Note that some kids will turn down coffee, which is available 24 hours a day at the convenience store, but won’t pass up a rare opportunity to drink an alcoholic beverage. These people get in the habit of drinking every chance they get. Some drinkers don't break this habit as the opportunities happen more and more often as they get older. In some cases, this leads to serious alcoholism, caused by restrictions on the availability of a beverage in what was supposed to be a free country, with liberty and justice for all.
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