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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (151911)	6/9/2001 8:06:44 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

JDN, Nobody wants to see anyone else's kid go to jail. It would be nice to see a more civilized attitude from all sides, where the sort of personal attack that the Clinton's endured for eight years could not occur. Scumbria

To: JDN who wrote (151911)	6/9/2001 11:33:08 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 769670

Most of the time, the bartender was urging me to drink more, not calling 911! ;) Derek

To: JDN who wrote (151911)	6/9/2001 12:38:40 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

This is another side to the bartender's story. I do not know how experienced he or she was or if he or she was the owner of the business. My husband's family has been a bar, restaurant, & nightclub owner since 1929. They served most of the yuppies in the area their first drink...legal or illegal. My husband bartended himself through much of those years to keep control of what was happening in the nightclub. The serving of miners is a huge problem as you get citations for serving them. If anything serious happens to a minor that gets drunk in your bar you will have bad press and points against your liquor license. It isn't easy to get a license and they cost well over 100,000k these days. You can lose that license if you are sloppy and get caught serving minors. One night a substitute bartender served an illegal minor who took off with a guy and got raped. She was picked up by the police when she was spotted walking down a street with few clothes on.........poor thing. We got cited for serving a minor. If my husband had seen Jenna Bush with a fake ID in our bar during the next couple years he might have called 911 himself in panic over having such a high profile customer tryng to illegally drink . What is most important is keeping your business running....who wants to lose their investment? !!!! You can be closed down by the Board of Alcohol Control.

To: JDN who wrote (151911)	6/9/2001 1:20:28 PM
From: Greta Mc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well said. If everytime an underage person presented a false ID to buy alcohol and 911 was called, then what would happen to the imminent emergencies? And imagine every underage drinker (or potential underage drinker using a false ID) being brought into court? I'd guess it's not a burden our courts could handle, and it might mean delaying justice for others. Having said that, the Bush daughters must face a reality: They are being targeted. They can be sitting in a restaurant where 911 (or even a nonemergency number) has never been called for someone trying to pass a fake ID, but if THEY do it, then 911 will be called and THEY will be charged. They can be at a college party where lots of underage drinking is occurring, but if they take a single sip of alcohol, then it will be reported, and may lead to charges being brought against them and no one else. It's not fair; but I think it's THEIR reality...it's not the reality for the 99.99% of the others that do it: It's their reality because of those who disagree politically with their father. Just my opinion, and they better get used to it.