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From an email at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Good ol' drink puritanism.

Laura Cockson Memorial Scholarship
Nominations & Application

On Saturday, March 14, 1998, Laura Cockson was killed when a car, whose driver was under the influence of alcohol. As a result of the accident a scholarship was established in Laura's name.

The $500 scholarship is awarded yearly to a student who works to promote healthy decision-making and responsibility with regard to use of alcohol among students.

Email your nominee�s name and their email address to: asun1@unl.edu. The deadline for nominations is Friday, October 28th . The actual scholarship deadline is Thursday, November 3rd . Contact the Student Government for additional information, or go to www.unl.edu/asun for a copy of the application.

This from a University that pushes homosexualism, a much more deadly recreational activity.

But one is the Left cause of the decade, and the other isn't.

"MADD at GM," MADD at GM, http://www.maddatgm.com/index.html, http://www.maddatgm.com/index.html (from Houston Chronicle through The Corner).

"MADD Off the Rails," MADD at GM, http://www.maddatgm.com/rails.html.

Have you ever had a glass of wine with dinner... and then driven safely home?
Have you ever driven home after having a beer at a ballgame?
Have you ever had a cocktail with your friends after work before heading home?

If you've answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you're what MADD calls a "drinking driver" .. and if MADD had its way, you would have been arrested.

From another MADD at GM page

Over the past twenty years, efforts of government, traffic safety, and adult beverage retailer groups have fundamentally changed the nature of the drunk driving problem. What once was considered at worst a social mistake is now recognized as a life-threatening and illegal act. Recognizing this fact, drunk driving is anathema to responsible adults.

Drunk drivers are now overwhelmingly made up of product abusers who routinely reach high blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) and often are repeat offenders. Government data shows that the average BAC of a drunk driver in a fatal crash is .19%—over twice the legal limit. And while this group makes up a very small portion of all drivers, they cause an overwhelming majority of alcohol-related fatalities each year. (Many of them are the drunk drivers themselves.)

But despite the fact that the drunk driving problem has been boiled down to what even MADD calls a “hard core of alcoholics who do not respond to public appeals,” MADD continues to advocate senseless PR campaigns—campaigns that take aim at responsible adults, not this “hard core.” Why? Because the original, well-intentioned MADD organization has been hijacked over 25 years into a $50 million PR organization with an anti-alcohol agenda.

I have little sympathy for the health mullahs. The Global War on Terrorism is a war for freedom against vertical control. Salafists and virtue police are a danger to the liberal dream in every nation, whether Secular, Christianist, or Islamist.