getMADD.com Established September 2003. No one has successfully challenged the
statistics on these pages This web site provides information related
to Driver's Rights,
DUI laws and the Anti-Alcohol/Prohibition Crusade
MADD,
Inc. received $4,436,481 from arrestees 'forced' (MADD'S
word, not ours) to sit in on their VIP panels in 2006 And in California, police can enter your house without
a warrant if they suspect a drunk driver is inside.
Congress will decide whether to force the states through blatant extortion to
pass laws mandating seatbelt interlocks for all first time DUI arrestees
regardless of their BAC level. The device disables the car if the driver's breath has a
minimal hint of alcohol. If you agree that interlocks should only be mandatory for drivers
who exhibit actual impairment--those whose BAC readings are above .12 or who are repeat
offenders, OR if you just believe in the 10th Amendment of our Constitution, then contact
your congressperson and ask them to remove the clause from the 2009 Highway Act.
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2007 Official Gov't Statistics: www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/810985.PDF
Of the 12,998 deaths involving a drunk driver,
10,792 deaths were the drunk driver or his passenger.
2,206 were in other vehicles or pedestrians,
implying that they were all blameless victims. 2,206
is 5% of all traffic fatalities. If any of the
2,206 were impaired is not recorded and who was at-fault is never discussed.
We know that the NHTSA makes up BAC numbers for an average of 60% of the drivers using
imputation (statistical probability), so the real numbers will be lower unless they
guessed right 100% of the time. The government quietly admits that their figures are
approximate and that alcohol impairment did not necessarily lead to the fatalities. www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/810985.PDF
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MADD is now MADD, Inc. The
new corporation was lucky enough to get $12,700,000 in government (taxpayer) money in
2004, without lobbying, since that would be an illegal activity for a non-profit
organization. As we celebrate the freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution
on July 4th, reality sets in. Where are you? A scene from East Berlin in 1970? Communism
is washed up, but police checkpoints have migrated to a town near you. Welcome to the
Brave New World.
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contain news, commentary or recommendations on a changing basis.
Pavlov: Creating
Hate. (It's not just about dogs anymore) Attempts
by government and special interest groups to influence our thinking is not a new
phenomenon. In the 50's, we were convinced that there was a Communist under every bed just
waiting to enslave us and our families. The Commie hysteria went on to justified the
Vietnam war in the 60's.
Think about words
or phrases that make your blood boil. "Communist" has lost its magic, but how
about "drunk driver"! Twenty-five years and hundreds of millions of
dollars spent by our government, MADD and other anti-alcohol groups has rendered us
unable to view every drunk driver as anyone other than a vile, child killer. Read any MADD
press release. There is always a reference to a specific family member killed and the
continued grieving of the mother or father. And with deliberate motivation the killer
“drunk” driver morphs into any and all “drinking” drivers, who we are
told are just as dangerous; statistics be damned. You can't help but feel sympathy and
yearn for justice and/or revenge, but against whom?
This social
conditioning is similar to Pavlov's experiments with his dog. Ring the
bell, offer Fido some food and watch him salivate. After a while, just the ringing of
the bell causes the dog to salivate. Sound the alarm, mention a dead child and watch
the public demand tougher laws against all drinking drivers.
If he is
a killer he should be severely punished, and today's laws ensure that he will
be, unless he's a politician or policeman.Why is the same
hatred not expressed toward a speeder or red light runner who kills someone?
Because we have not yet been conditioned to hate these killers. Our laws
even mandate lesser punishment if alcohol is not involved.
What happens when
the thought control groups reach their goal that it's not drunk drivers but all drinking
drivers that are the scum of the earth? It used to be "Don't let friends drive
drunk." Now it's "You drink, You drive, You lose." What does that
mean? Is it illegal to drive after drinking? If you have a beer and get behind the
wheel are you, in MADD's words, the same as a "drive-by shooter?" Say it on TV
for 25 years and, the public subliminally gets the message. "It must be
true, why would they lie?"
MADD is
determined to convince us that Prohibition was a good thing, it was just done the wrong
way. They are doing it through hysterical unverifiable claims that tens of thousands of
innocent people are killed by drunk drivers each year. They are doing it by
exploiting and highly publicizing only those tragedies that involve alcohol. They are
doing it through media coverage that loves the sensational story and never checks the
source or the verifiably phony statistics.
And once we are
all conditioned to their alarm bell, there will no longer even be a need for them to feed
us their lies..
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Gov't gives MADD, Inc the tools to mislead the public. 16,694 alcohol-related deaths! That's the
government's number for 2004. They imply that it is exact--sure looks like it is--but
quietly admit it is just an estimate and they never freely define their vague term
"alcohol-related."
They also publish another estimated number: 12,874
as the number of deaths involving a drunk driver and then admit that there is nothing
in either of these numbers to indicate that alcohol was the cause of
these deaths.
They admit none of their numbers are based solely on a computation
of actual deaths and that their estimates are based on data that is, on average, 60%
incomplete.
They admit to age and gender profiling in deciding if alcohol was maybe
involved in a traffic death.
They admit prejudice toward people who own pick-up trucks and those who drive
late at night in making their ASSumptions.
They admit that no other civilized country uses their methods of imputation,
profiling and guessing to come up with drunk driving statistics.
Finally, they admit that their staggering numbers may be misused and
misinterpreted by special interest groups.
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Nationally, 12.8% (Not MADD's 42%!!) of all drivers involved
in fatal accidents during 2001 are known to have been intoxicated according to the BAC
laws of their state. This number is based on a systematic examination of the official
government records of each and every accident involving a fatality during that year in the
US. It is based on factual evidence rather than on estimates or guesses.
(Individual police case data from www.ridl.us on their statistics
page.)
MADD
Statistics
Prohibition, DUI,
Law Enforcement
Money, Freedom,
Laws, etc.
Keeping Abreast of MADD
~~ MADD:
In their own words MADD Canada was exposed for mislabeling fund
raising costs as "education". MADD USA uses the same tactics but hasn't been
called on it yet by the news media.
2009
figures just added
Traffic Deaths 1993-2009
An easy-to-read Chart
2,200 innocent victims of drunk drivers were killed in 2007. The other deaths were
the drunk drivers, their willing passengers or drunk pedestrians.
Follow
the Money:
And you thought it was about saving lives In 2006, MADD received $4,436,481 from
arrestees who in MADD's words were 'forced' to sit in on their VIP panels.
The 2004 figure was $3,749,000
The 2005 figure was $3,957,095
(More arrests=more money for MADD. Hmm).
From
2004: The NHTSA assumes we have all succumbed to their anti-alcohol propaganda. This
statement appears on their website: "Whereas: Each year
drunk and drugged driving leads to one death every 33 minutes, one injury every two
minutes and 1.5 million arrests nationally..." No longer
is the target group vaguely called "impaired" drivers. Now they are all drunk
(or drugged). This bold-faced lie, parrots the misstatements of MADD and shows the true
agenda of a supposedly neutral government agency.
Random
Fact:
In Fairfax, VA: More than
170,000 vehicles have gone through DWI checkpoints over the past two years, netting a
total of 247 arrests for DWI and 169,753 people, (99.85%) stopped for no reason. Taxpayer
cost $1,000,000+
Random Fact:
210,646 people were stopped at sobriety checkpoints in 2003 in Pennsylvania. Only 532
or 1/4 of 1% were found to be impaired. ---NHTSA website, Dec, 2003. (The other
210,000 detainees were no doubt impressed with the efficient use of taxpayer money and
manpower.).
Just a thought: Do
you think the people who have lost loved ones to drunk drivers realize that they are
merely pawns in promoting a Prohibitionist agenda? MADD is no longer fighting for stiffer
penalties for drunk drivers who kill. They have already fought and won that battle.
Instead, the highly publicized tragedies are being exploited by MADD to procure money and
condemn alcohol consumption.
A NHTSA confession:"The results of the inquiry indicate that the definitions
used in the United States to track alcohol involvement in fatal crashes are not shared by
other developed countries." from NHTSA: Alcohol Involvement in Fatal
Crashes--Comparisons among Countries
Our Goals:
~To promote the creation of DUI laws based on facts
~To insure that DUI punishment is based on the severity of the crime
~To retain and protect our Constitutional freedoms
~To hold government agencies accountable for their information and expose
misinformation
~To evaluate the motivation of MADD and other groups that influence public
opinion
~To eliminate sobriety checkpoints that stop people with no probable cause
~To identify and monitor the Anti-alcohol movement and its agenda
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"Police
officers have discretion whenever they stop anyone, but they should particularly extend
that courtesy in the case of other police officers and their families," Suffolk
County Police Benevolent Association president Jeff Frayler---Newsday
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject."---Winston Churchill
"Get your facts first, and
then you can distort them as much as you please."---Mark Twain
No, this is not a sobriety
checkpoint. Possibly an alternative energy source.But that's another topic.