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DUI ?Scarlet Letter? License Plates Another Bust

By Lawrence Taylor

I’ve railed long and hard in the past about the growing trend of humiliating citizens convicted of drunk driving by forcing them to have special license plates on their cars (no matter who is driving).  See, for example, The Scarlet Letters, The Return of the Scarlet Letter, and Washington State Says "No" to DUI Scarlet Letter .  The idea came from the old Salem witch trials, when women accused of adultery were branded or had to wear a scarlet "A", as memorialized in Nathaniel Hawtheorne’s classic novel The Scarlet Letter.      Another of the hair-brained weapons in MADD’s "War on Drunk Driving", this one has proven a failure as well… DUI Plates Are Another Flop Akron, OH...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).