May 13, 2004 - From the "Special Interest Groups are Successful at Pushing their Agenda Because we are Stupid" Department - The State of Pennsylvania announced that DUI arrests in 2003 increased from 2002. They lowered the blood-alcohol level (the legal definition of "drunk") from .10 to .08 last year. Now, here's a question: Which scenario is more likely to lower the number of DUI arrests? a) changing the definition of drunk from .10 to .08 or, b) changing it from .10 to .12?

Of course the number of arrests went up. Basic math skills, which an increasingly larger segment of the population doesn't have, would tell you that. Considering the small increase in arrests (65) in 2003 over 2002 and the fact that state redefined what drunk driving is, it appears the drunk driving is actually on the decrease. However, militant special interest groups and the Fatherland, er, I mean State, would have you believe otherwise. If parents and the schools taught thinking instead wasting time on political correctness maybe the State wouldn't be able to snowball the citizenry as easily.

This will be spun to sell the people that they'll be safer with less rights. Sure, DUI is not anything to endorse but arresting people with blood alcohol levels of .09 simply punishes the mistakingly guilty and not the chronic offender. These DUI checkpoints are set up to force people to prove their lack of guilt by assuming everybody on the road is guilty until proven otherwise. We harass our own citizens day in and day out with roving patrols. Law enforcement should go after the real criminals instead of picking on easy prey. Your papers, please.