The Thamesmead Grump

CRY FREEDOM

30 years ago, the government introduced a new offence under the Road Traffic Act 1991 that was to be known as 'causing death by driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs' and which carried a compulsory prison sentence of up to five years.

According to Drink Driving.org, between 1979 and 2014 an average of just 666 people a year were killed in drink-driving related accidents and just 3,551 were seriously injured, and by 2015 that figure had dropped to 230 deaths and 1250 serious injuries. Compared with the number of people who die of the Flu every year this is tiny and in no way justifies the draconian law restricting the public from getting absolutely hammered down the pub and driving home afterwards.

It's a fact that, even if you are killed by a drunk driver, you will be immune from ever being killed again and eventually a herd immunity will build up in the general population. And yet, over 600,000 people have fallen foul of this piece of legislation.

Clearly, this is just another attempt by the government to control us. It's no coincidence that the devices they use (breathalysers and the like) don't just detect the amount of alcohol you may have ingested, but can also download all your other activities as well. Evidential breath testing machines, introduced in 1968 are mainly manufactured by a company called Dräger which is based in the German city of Lubeck. Lubeck is noted for its manufacture of marzipan: need I say more? Blow into one of these things and you might as well invite MI5 into your home, give them all your social media passwords (although they probably have them already) and tell them about all the other stuff you do that the government wants to know about.*

I say it's time for us to take back control. Let's all show we are not just puppets of the government, but that we have rights that are worth defending. We should all get totally shit-faced on whatever it is we get shit-faced on, then climb behind the wheel of our cars, vans, 38 ton trucks (whatever) and head off into the dawn of a new, freedom loving future. That'll show the bastards.

* I recently discovered that the Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop would only take card payments so that "they" could monitor us. Let's face it, if the government are monitoring all our Krispy Kreme Doughnut related activity, what else are they after?