Re: Intrusion
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:56 pm
I'm a lush. And fortunately, Cheryle is my designated driver Lab nights. Or any night, even one or two, Cheryle gets the keys. Thank you Cheryle.
DUII laws are but one aspect of a larger social health issue, as drug laws in general shouldn't be addressed by labeling users criminal, but rather a health issue. Same thing, yet, for roughly ten percent of our population, alcohol use becomes a debilitating destruction of family, career and health, as any addiction can become whether gambling, heroin, meth, social networking, gaming, eating and on and on. For small percentages of our society, almost anything can become life destroying. Amy Winehouse comes to mind.
Are we such cold individualist (I got mine, fuck you) bastards that we have no concern for those in our society that are hurting? No hand offered to support and help those suffering the afflictions of addiction? In our current economic strifes, addictions are sure to rise. Isn't ignoring the pains of our neighbors an act of complicity? DUII laws can serve as an intervention. There's my complicity Steve.
Billy Bragg expressed it well regarding Amy. Just a couple minutes.
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/8 ... l_implicit
What brought this on? Actually it was an interview with Ken Burns locally discussing his new six hour documentary on Prohibition. History points to the fact that there is nothing new in this world but history we haven't learned. Wedge issues, legislating morality, the parallels are chilling. Fairly lengthy, but insightful, considering the direction this thread has turned.
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/k ... ohibition/
I'm having another beer, but not driving anywhere, I could, but I'm aware of the consequences, so choose not to,
neal
DUII laws are but one aspect of a larger social health issue, as drug laws in general shouldn't be addressed by labeling users criminal, but rather a health issue. Same thing, yet, for roughly ten percent of our population, alcohol use becomes a debilitating destruction of family, career and health, as any addiction can become whether gambling, heroin, meth, social networking, gaming, eating and on and on. For small percentages of our society, almost anything can become life destroying. Amy Winehouse comes to mind.
Are we such cold individualist (I got mine, fuck you) bastards that we have no concern for those in our society that are hurting? No hand offered to support and help those suffering the afflictions of addiction? In our current economic strifes, addictions are sure to rise. Isn't ignoring the pains of our neighbors an act of complicity? DUII laws can serve as an intervention. There's my complicity Steve.
Billy Bragg expressed it well regarding Amy. Just a couple minutes.
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/8 ... l_implicit
What brought this on? Actually it was an interview with Ken Burns locally discussing his new six hour documentary on Prohibition. History points to the fact that there is nothing new in this world but history we haven't learned. Wedge issues, legislating morality, the parallels are chilling. Fairly lengthy, but insightful, considering the direction this thread has turned.
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/k ... ohibition/
I'm having another beer, but not driving anywhere, I could, but I'm aware of the consequences, so choose not to,
neal