MADD Founder Insults the Military

[Jon Miller]

Hmm, but people need to drive to work. When do people need to drink for any reason?

JM

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Hmm, but people need to drive to work. When do people need to drink for any reason?

JM

With a 16-year-old drinking age but a 35-year old driving age, we get free-flowing booze AND state of the art mass transportation. It's win-win!

[Jon Miller]

The 35 yearold driving age might be easier to enforce than the 21 yearold drinking age also...


JM

[David Floyd]

If people were really interested in safety on the roads, they would create a MAXIMUM driving age, or at least, require people over a certain age to pass annual driving tests.

Hmmm, I wonder why that will never happen? Clearly, it isn't because age discrimination is wrong, seeing as how it is done to young people - could it be, because old people vote??

It's pretty much hypocrisy - as has been pointed out, if MADD was truly interested in safety, they would do something to actually address drunk driving, rather than just showing up to every single DWI court case they can find and make it politically impossible for a judge to give a break to a kid who made a mistake. While they're at it, they would also support my above idea about regulating old drivers.

MADD

[Wiglaf]

It's kind of a fact that 18 year olds are biologically less risk averse than people several years older. That is what she was trying to say, but she's clearly not being too clear when she speaks, and her statement when written out is incoherent.

Lowering the drinking age is probably a good idea just because no one follows the law anyway.

[Aeson]

That is what she was trying to say, but she's clearly not being too clear when she speaks, and her statement when written out is incoherent.

She was probably drunk...

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by David Floyd
If people were really interested in safety on the roads, they would create a MAXIMUM driving age, or at least, require people over a certain age to pass annual driving tests.

Hmmm, I wonder why that will never happen? Clearly, it isn't because age discrimination is wrong, seeing as how it is done to young people - could it be, because old people vote??

It's pretty much hypocrisy - as has been pointed out, if MADD was truly interested in safety, they would do something to actually address drunk driving, rather than just showing up to every single DWI court case they can find and make it politically impossible for a judge to give a break to a kid who made a mistake. While they're at it, they would also support my above idea about regulating old drivers.

MADD

Grey Dawn

[Elok]

I support lowering the drinking age accompanied by a national campaign to educate our youth on how to get loaded properly. Some of the things I saw at college were disgraceful. You do NOT drink until you vomit; not only is it dangerous, you're wasting liquor and bypassing the pleasant everything-is-funny stage of hammered for the moany, stupid, talking-on-the-big-white-phone stage which nobody should ever reach. Screw that. Isn't our current "alcohol is an evil poison" just the chemical equivalent of abstinence only sex ed?

[OzzyKP]

Yes, exactly Elok.

[Wiglaf]

national campaign to educate our youth on how to get loaded properly.

Yes, brilliant idea. We'll put it right next to our anti drug and anti sex campaigns for maximum effectiveness.

[Winston]

I get the feeling that Candice Lightner is one of those liberal types who put her brain on permanent hold sometime back in the 70's.

Glad to hear you nailed her good.