Lawrence Taylor notes that MADD has done something of a reversal in the face of Washington, D.C.’s zero tolerance backlash. Fortunately, we have lots of MADD higher-ups on record in support of zero tolerance policies.

On a related note, I seem to have a hard time getting anyone from MADD to debate me. They’ve cancelled out of two planned radio debates. The latter was scheduled for this Sunday at 4pm, and has been for nearly two weeks. MADD cancelled yesterday, citing schedule conflicts. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that last time I debated a MADD exec on the radio, all five callers harangued her for her position (that we should arrest parents who give their kids a taste of alcohol). I bring this up not to gloat (okay, maybe to gloat a little), but because it’s unfortunate that a group with so much influence and who is pushing so many radical policies doesn’t have enough confidence in those policies to subject them to the scrutiny of a public debate.

If MADD believes, for example, that pushing the neoprohibition agenda onto family law (for example, by insisting on zero tolerance for divorced parents with kids in the car, under penalty of loss of all parental rights) is a good thing, they ought to take the idea to the general public before trying to sneak it through state legislatures.

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