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The problem is that if someone has alcohol in his blood the guy gets nailed whether he caused the accident or not.

That's how the logic of the moral majority goes. If you smoke and you get cancer, hey, tobacco killed you. So what if many people who never smoked die of cancer.

We had just recently a big hulabaloo in Finland of deaths caused by narcotics. If you bothered to read the small print, anyone with a whiff of pot was classified as "death caused by drugs" even if the hapless dude was in the backseat of a Fiat Punto stamrolled by an eighteen wheeler.

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[cruiz-euro]

>In most European nations, the governments are afraid of the citizens. It's because the citizens are
>willing to risk general strikes, walkouts, and other grass roots actions to implement change and
>express their displeasure.

That’s absolutely true. But the problem is to find the middle road.

For example in France the guys have 36 hour working week plus 5 week annual vacation. They still do 40 hrs and save the rest to have 9 week vacation. Not a bad situation, especially considering they have also craploads of excellent wine and good looking women of easy virtue.

But then nothing is enough for them. They throw the whole country to chaos if the govt. wants to increase the railway workers’ pension age from 50 years. That’s not the way to build the nation either.

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>It's possible for a drunk driver to be involved in a crash that
>wasn't his fault and to be charged with the DUI but not the crash

Well could happen for an occasional quarterback but YOU try getting drunk and then t-boning some woman who doesn’t stop at the red. I can already see the headlines “DataDan murders mother of three” and a picture of your sorry face with a sinister smile photoshopped on. People chanting outside the courtroom waiving placards “God hates gays”. You’d get long enough sentence that later on you’d be able to catch baseballs with your buthole.

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