P-Mac's column today is a fulfillment, in a way.
About 20 years ago, a (now-deceased) Miller Brewing exec told me that the country 'was entering a new era of Prohibition.' He was not quite right; perhaps the better description would have been that we were 'entering a new era of Nanny-State'.
The Small-Laws era.
You knew that your government is planning to put a blood-alcohol interlock on your car's ignition, didn't you?
...the feds and the car industry are nonetheless going halves on inventing a device to be mandated on every new car. Ferguson says the project aims to have a prototype within a year and a demonstration vehicle by 2013.
For all the obvious reasons, the devices will not be particularly accurate, and will most likely over-compensate--that is, disable your car even if you snarfed down only 1 or 2 beers in the hour prior to saddling up.
That's "prior" as in "prior restraint." Legal techies may not like the way I use that term, but then.....oh, well.
My friend from Miller Brewing was, perhaps unwittingly, a Chestertonian, who famously quipped "When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws." - Daily News, 7/29/05
And Nanny-State is the state of Small Laws.
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Keep up the good work, my friend-
The Reaganite Republican
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Done!
Thanks for reading!!!
There is no proposed law as McIlheran describes. He's making it up, or someone fed him bad information.
Who needs a "law," Jay?
How about a nice, shiny, new Directive from the CPSC, or Dept of Transportation?
Regulation: better than laws, because we don't need Congress to make it happen!
Normally when people say a thing is going to happen, and it isn't going to happen, we say that those people are lying.
YMMV, of course.
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