DHS is convincing states to lower their BAC limit to 0.05 or one drink
image credit: Countering Drunk Driving Standards 2013
This month the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Mathematics (NASEM) published a report that encourages states to make it illegal for people to have one drink and drive.
The NASEM report titled 'Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities' claims that a person’s ability to operate a motor vehicle begins to deteriorate at a BAC below 0.05 percent and recommends police arrest motorists for consuming one drink.
"The committee recommends that state governments enact per se laws for alcohol-impaired driving at 0.05 percent".
A Google search of the NASEM and Homeland Security returned more than 4 million hits. (To learn more about NASEM's close relationship with the Feds, click here.)
Currently, police in America use thirty-three different checkpoints to question and arrest anyone. They also stop and question 50,000 motorists daily or 20 million a year.
Can you imagine how much higher those numbers will be if police are allowed to arrest people for consuming just one drink?
DHS is using numerous government agencies to convince states to lower their BAC limit.
NTSB has been trying to lower the BAC for five years
As you will see, DHS is going to great lengths to lower the national BAC from 0.08 to 0.05.
According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has been actively trying to convince states to lower BAC's for the past five years.
"On 14 May 2013, the NTSB, an independent federal agency dedicated to promoting transportation safety, issued a report recommending, among other measures, that states should lower the illegal BAC limit for driving from 0.08 to 0.05".
But that would never happen here right?
Last year Utah, made it illegal for motorists to have one or two drinks and drive.
"The proposal would mean that a 150-pound man could get a DUI after two beers, while a 120-pound woman could get one after a single drink..."
People in five states could be arrested for consuming one drink
At least three more states are thinking of arresting people for consuming one drink and driving.
Last year it was revealed that Washington and Hawaii were considering lowering their BAC to 0.05.and four days ago, Fox 11 revealed that Wisconsin was also considering it. On March 5, 2018, Delaware announced they want to lower their BAC to 0.05.
Which brings the total to five states, that will arrest people for having one drink.
The push to lower BAC to 0.05 has been going on worldwide for at least a decade.
For at least ten years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been trying to convince countries across the globe to lower their BAC's to one drink.
"While most countries (86%) in the European region have BAC laws in line with this recommendation, in other regions of the world most countries either do not have BAC limits or have limits that are above 0.05."
Does the WHO work with Homeland Security?
A Google search of WHO and Homeland Security returned over 37 million hits, so I leave it for you to decide.
Make no mistake, lowering the BAC to 0.05 will have far reaching consequences for everyone. (For more information about NIH and the NTSB's close relationship with DHS, click here & here.)