Misinformed About Drunk Driving?
The MADD organization seeks to arrest, fine & criminalize mere social drinkers via lobbying to lower the legal BAC down to .05 from the current .08:
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrivingIssues/1136908788.html
MADD has become a Prohibitionist group:
http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=482
Reducing BAC levels from 1.0 to .08 didn't decrease drunk driving fatalities:
http://www.motorists.com/pressreleases/alcoholincrease.html
$20,000 reward if MADD claims can be proven:
When Drunk Driving Deterrence Becomes Neo-Prohibition (Fox News):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171383,00.html
GAO report > "GAO found that the evidence does not establish that .08 BAC laws, by themselves, reduce the number and the severity of alcohol-related crashes.":
http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/summary.php?rptno=RCED-99-179&accno=162291
MADD's main focus now is raising money:
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/InTheNews/DrinkingAndDriving/1111690174.html
False use of term "alcohol-related":
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrivingIssues/1061321660.html
Charity Navigator rating (two stars out of 4):
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4129.htm
MADD founder quits in discust of the organization's neo-prohibitionist aim:
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1119636699.html
