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To: GraceZ who wrote (30488)	5/1/2005 5:50:20 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I applaud Australia's approach to social problems because it results on less detrimental impact on both society and the addict. There's less crime, fewer people in prisons, shorter sentences, and its far less costly than the big government, police state approach, you're promoting. Australia says you're an addict, there's nothing we can do to change your mind until you decide to stop but we can prevent you from causing too many problems for other people. Sensible! In most ways Australia treats alcohol just like any other drug. If you get behind the wheel of a car under the influence of alcohol, heroin, or cocaine you're treated pretty much the same if the police stop you. The penalties for causing damage or death with your car are identical regardless of what your drug of choice was when you caused the accident. This is entirely common sense to me. For a person like yourself well-schooled in wowser ways, it makes sense to let the drunk-driver off with a two-day class -- while the penalties become increasingly strict with prison time as the impaired driver's drug of choice meets with your increasing, narrow-minded, disapproval. I think think you're flat out nuts, just like any dry-drunk. Having noticed the change it made on a number of my friends, I'm confident that a few years of AA meetings could smooth away some of your rough edges. C.J. Dennis defines the term: 'Wowser: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and herself for a warder'. The term originally meant `A person who is obnoxious or annoying to the community. The shift to the present sense of wowser (to wit, a mealy-mouthed hypocrite, a pious prude, one who condemns or seeks to curtail the pleasures of others or who works to have his or her own rigid morality enforced on all) occurs at the turn of the century. biologydaily.com australianbeers.com .