Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> DUI Blog

Criminal Law

: DUI Blog

Losing Sight of the Goal

By Lawrence Taylor

For the past two decades, Mothers Against Drunk Driving has — very successfully — engaged in a holy war against drunk driving and underage drinking.  Through MADD’s political pressures on legislators and judges, the offense has been redirected from impairment to blood-alcohol levels, penalties have been radically increased, and constitutional rights have been repeatedly ignored. The offense has been demonized in the public eye to the point that it approaches the status of child molesting, and MADD continues to press for outlawing ever-lower blood-alcohol levels. First, let’s get something clear:  drunk driving is dangerous.  That’s why we have DUI laws — not to punish the use of alcohol, but to punish those who represent a danger behind the wheel and thereby deter that person and others from endangering the public...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).