Dishonest Dries

If you ever drink alcoholic beverages, you’ll understand.
There is a significant portion of humanity who inherited a horrible weakness, making them virtually unable to control certain compulsive behaviors. The particular weakness varies. Most alcoholics suffer this sort of genetic flaw; they cannot stop drinking by their own volition. I’ve seen it firsthand too often. And as an ex-cop, I’ll tell you the number one cause of car wrecks (not counting fender benders) is substance abuse. I’m all for taking their license if they get behind the wheel incapacitated, and jailing them on the third offense, and taking their car. Of course, that’s three strikes which expire after a reasonable time limit. But the current system itself as implemented is a criminal fraud.
As an ex-cop, I will also tell you there are few industries so corrupt and powerful as the Prohibitionists, AKA “Dries”. Their presence in the government is ubiquitous. No, not honest ones; among bureaucrats, many of them do drink. But they have a vested interest in keeping the lies and laws in place. Most of the statistics come from this industry, and if you have proof to counter their lies, you can’t get published very easily. That the big beverage producers are another corrupt industry is beside the point; you’d be amazed at how much they work together with Dries.
The War on Drugs isn’t working to reduce drug use, only raise the price and make a select group of politicians and bureaucrats rich. Prohibition didn’t work because the mob and government weren’t working together as well as they do now; but they won’t try that again. Instead, they use “drunk driving” as the excuse for enacting laws which serve the same effect as Prohibition. I’ve seen a guy with a BAC of 0.10 who passed all the sobriety tests, but I wasn’t permitted to write that in my police report (BAC 0.08 is the legal upper limit). I’ve seen commanders order their MPs to use up badly flawed BAC test kits, giving known false readings because there is big money behind DUI convictions. It didn’t matter if they fell under appeal because that got far less publicity. I am told it happened in civilian police departments, too. How many lawyers would dare to fight this stuff? They get paid more to compel their clients to cop a plea.
In terms of real justice, the BAC means nothing, because you and I both know human resistance to alcohol varies wildly. There’s an amazing hypocrisy regarding other human factors which limit the ability to operate a vehicle. What matters objectively in terms of car wrecks is whether they can operate it within safe limits, never mind why not. If we had honest tests of capability, there would be far fewer convictions, and a whole industry would fold and have to get honest jobs. Here’s the kicker: The folks at the top of this mess know beyond all doubt the current system is not working, but they keep it in place because it makes more money than one which actually worked.
If that’s not bad enough, the most dishonest Christians I’ve met as a whole have been prohibitionists. They lie to themselves. Never mind ignoring the obvious meaning of Scriptures, such as where Jesus was accused of being a drunk because He enjoyed tipsy celebrations. These are the people who lock onto that false statistical data and what they believe it implies. They memorize vast reams of mythology about it. This conditioning goes so deep they utterly convince themselves if you drink at all, you must be an alcoholic. They’ll give lip service to the idea some drink responsibly, but when you see how they talk and act, you know they don’t believe a word of it. I’ve seen Prohibitionist Christians literally hang around known drinkers (though not in the bars, of course) waiting for them to confess.
Were you aware of the vast money and corruption behind Alcoholics Anonymous? Not so much from the organization itself, but the money it represents for those who make the official referrals and sell the materials. Have you heard their intellectually dishonest tripe? Granted, the original AA program had flaws enough of its own, born from a very badly broken model of psychology, but what you see today is the results of bad hijacked by worse. Some places I’ve seen it done right, but less and less these days.
At times I’ve done some volunteer work with addiction recovery ministries. AA members go from drunk to crazy. All it takes is one brush with these people and you understand the mythology: Everyone who drinks must be an alcoholic, because you simply cannot justify drinking under any terms. First, they bury themselves in the notion they can’t handle it, then they project that back on every one who dares take a sip of beverage alcohol. Usually they simply exchange one addiction for another, because the new one isn’t illegal. It’s the same business in all the different AA-based therapy models for other types of problems — overeating, pornography, gambling, etc. But the worst part is the government makes this one program compulsory, regardless of flawed implementation. There are no alternative therapies. Oh, it works, after a fashion, but it can be worse than jail if you don’t actually need any part of it.
It won’t make a bit of difference what I say about my own personal habits regarding alcohol. Having pulled the scab off this infection, I mark myself among Dries as a drunk. In other words, with Dries in general, and far too many AAs in particular, it’s like talking to a brick wall. I am not in the habit of debating with inanimate fixed objects, but I assure you it would make more sense than talking to the average Dry. They don’t even have the advantage of claiming mysticism. Dries spew forth all sorts of manufactured “facts” and deny any facts contrary to their dogma. Communists love this kind of people, calling them “useful idiots.”
The point here is not to start a debate, because that’s utterly pointless. Rather, I was hoping to add a little information about what I discovered hidden in the background so sane folks would know to be more cynical about it. Meanwhile, the whole thing reflects yet one more fundamental flaw in our schizophrenic Western culture. But when a Dry reads all this, he’ll swear up and down I’m simply “justifying” and deceiving myself.
And people accuse me of shirking objectivity.