-Caveat Lector- FREEDOM NOW NETWORK - October 23, 2000 CONGRESS, CLINTON AND DRUNKS..... by Dot Bibee, Freedom Now Network ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) According to the national media, Clinton did a WONDERFUL thing today. He signed a bill that will save 500 lives a year!!! What he actually did was SIGN the Transportation Department's Appropriation Bill H.R.4475 (as amended) which is titled "Making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes." TRULY unconstitutional on the surface since the BILL will hold the states hostage (as it has with previous years bill) by forcing them to adopt a new limit of .08 for a "drunk driving charge" or they will lose MILLIONS in Federal Highway Funds. So much for State Sovereignty. Now, don't get me wrong, I do not approve of Drunk Driving but .08 could hit MOST Americans on their way home from work and it also means that you can have your car confiscated and a drunk driving record (up goes the insurance) and more!!! Now, do I have your attention. DON'T MISS my next message entitled UN-TAC-OP from LtCol Archibald Roberts. This is HOW you can take your country back and reestablish your State's Sovereignty. We MUST stand up now before it is too late. ....Dot Bibee Monday October 23 10:49 AM ET Clinton Signs Stricter Drunk Driving Law By Steve Holland<A HREF="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20001023/ts/clinton_drunkdriving_dc_1. html">Click here: Clinton Signs Stricter Drunk Driving Law</A> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20001023/ts/clinton_drunkdriving_dc_1.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton signed a law on Monday imposing a stricter national standard for drunken driving with the potential to save 500 lives a year. The law would penalize states that do not meet the new limits by taking away millions of dollars in federal highway funds. "How often do we get a chance to begin a good morning and a good week by saving 500 lives a year?'' Clinton said during an upbeat, sunny ceremony in the White House Rose Garden shortly after he signed the law in the Oval Office. He said the ``law is reasonable'' and that lowering the limit will make Americans take greater care when they drink alcohol in any amounts and they intend to drive. Clinton said credit for the law goes largely to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization for the pressure it exerted for the legislation, overcoming opposition from lobbyists for the alcohol industry. The group's national president, Millie Webb, 28 years ago in Franklin, Tenn., lost her 4 1/2-year-old daughter and 19-month-old nephew in a car wreck caused by a drunk driver. Webb was burned over 75 percent of her body and suffered a broken neck. Seven months pregnant, her unborn child survived the crash but was born legally blind. "Every 33 minutes, a person is killed in a drunk driving crash,'' Webb said in introducing Clinton at the event. "It is still the most frequently committed violent crime in our nation, but those deaths, all of these deaths, are completely preventable.'' Under legislation approved earlier this month by Congress as part of national transportation funding, states would be required to adopt a .08 blood-alcohol level as the legal threshold for drunken driving by 2007 at the latest. Eighteen states and Washington D.C. already set a blood-alcohol level of .08 as the standard for drunken driving, but 31 states have a blood-alcohol limit of .10. In Massachusetts, a level of .08 is considered evidence but not proof of drunkenness. The new law penalizes states that do not implement the .08 standard by 2004, cutting off 2 percent of their federal highway funding, with the penalty climbing to 8 percent by 2007. States that adopt the standard by 2007 would get back any lost highway funds. Research cited by Mothers Against Drunk Driving shows an estimated 500 highway deaths could be prevented annually if all states enacted the .08 standard. Though deaths related to drunken driving have been decreasing in recent years, it is still the greatest factor in motor vehicle deaths and injuries. In 1999 alone, 15,786 Americans were killed in alcohol-related crashes, including more than 2,200 children. "There are still too many drunk drivers and there still will be too many after this law'' takes effect, Clinton said. The Mothers Against Drunk Driving said virtually everyone is dangerously impaired at a .08 blood-alcohol level no matter how many drinks it takes an individual to reach this level. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a 170-pound man can consume approximately four drinks in an hour on an empty stomach before reaching a .08 level. 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