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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.. ~~~~~~~~~~~

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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