MADD doesn’t care if you were drinking responsibly, or that your behavior was entirely legal.
As one past MADD president stated (and others have paraphrased), “There is no safe blood alcohol level,
and for that reason responsible drinking means no drinking and driving.”
And over the last five years, General Motors has spent more than $3
million supporting this neo-prohibitionist agenda.
MADD has been using its multimillion-dollar budget to agitate for lower drunk driving arrest
thresholds and roadblocks, and to conduct PR campaigns designed to frighten responsible
adults out of drinking anything before driving. Does this reduce drunk driving? No.
Statistics and common sense confirm that the drunk driving problem is overwhelmingly caused
by alcohol abusers, and that persecuting responsible adults does nothing to save lives.
As part of its agreement with MADD, General Motors has become a vocal opponent of any drinking before driving.
Think about that before your next car or truck purchase.
