NTSB convincing states to lower drunk driving minimum to one or two drinks (Updated)
Earlier this month, Utah lawmakers passed HB155 which would make it illegal to have a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.05%. A 0.05% BAC translates into only one or two alcoholic drinks!
"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..."
"For several years, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has encouraged states to drop their blood-alcohol content levels to 0.05 or even lower."
Since 2013, the NTSB has claimed that impairment begins after having one drink.
Updated 6/4:
Why should you care about what happens in Utah with their known bias against alcohol consumption? Richard Berman president of Berman and Company wrote. “Because in 1983, Utah became the first state to lower its BAC arrest level to .08. After many years and contentious fights surrounding drinking and relative impairment, all 49 other states followed suit. Admittedly, this copycat phenomenon was helped by the threat of losing federal money for a law that was aimed at the wrong people. As is often the case in politics, the desire to say “me too”—not informed judgment—was the impetus behind the momentum. That’s why it’s important to pay attention, even if it’s to Utah’s weird alcohol laws.”
When motorists are forced to stop at a DUI roadblock all a cop has to do is claim he smelled an odor of alcohol and a person's life will be ruined forever over one drink
NTSB lies about drunk driving, claims its a national epidemic
In 2013, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman lied about drunk driving, claiming it's a national epidemic
“Most Americans think that we’ve solved the problem of impaired driving, but in fact, it’s still a national epidemic," said Hersman.
Watch the video below, as NTSB's Vice ChairmanBella Dinh-Zarr claims that having one or two drinks is too much for anyone.
The NTSB claims, that people who've had one, two or three drinks (0.05-0.79% BAC) are seven times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash. At approximately one minute into the video the NTSB calls a "0.05 BAC a preventive measure."
Rep. Gage Froerer warned, lowering the BAC to 0.05% will affect Americans "personal freedoms and rights." Rep. Kelly Miles said, Americans shouldn't "drink anything and drive."
According to the Washington Times, the NTSB has been looking for ways to justify its budget.
The NTSB has been trying since 2013 to force states into lowering their BAC levels to 0.05. (click here & here to find out more.)
Ask yourselves, if lowering the BAC to 0.05% is a "preventative measure" and not scientifically proven, why are they doing it?
Drunk and drugged driving is at its lowest EVER
Two years ago, I wrote an article revealing how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) admitted that drunk and drugged driving is on the decline.
A 2016 article in USA Today revealed, there's been a significant decrease in drunk and drugged driving...
"Alcohol use is also at its lowest level ever: 37.3% of 12th-graders said they have been drunk at least once, down from a high of 53.2% in 2001." (Click here & here to find out more about declining DUI's)
If drunk driving is on the decline, then that means the NTSB has been lying to the public for years.
Breathalyzers are notoriously inaccurate
Three months ago, I wrote an article about a million dollar breathalyzer that the FTC described as "deceptive and dangerous." And this past December, a man was charged with a DUI, despite having a 0.00% BAC. In 2010 a Pennsylvania judge claimed the Intoxilyzer 5000EN was inaccurate and the state of Maine was forced to replace them. A Google search for "inaccurate Breathalyzers" returned 65,500 hits.
Inaccurate Breathalyzers aren't the only issue...
According to Statistic Brain.com 1.5 million Americans are arrested for DUI each year. The Fed's, Police, MADD, and the NTSB don't want the public to see any of the 170,000+ source codes that Breathalyzers use.
For years, Breathalyzer companies have claimed that independent examination of their source code is a trade secret, and disclosing it would financially destroy them.
You can't make this crap up.
Breathalyzer companies claim. they have to keep their source codes a secret because of the "highly competitive commercial environment" in which they operate. CNN asks, "Should computers with secret methods of operation be used to convict Americans accused of drunk driving?" (A Google search for "breathalyzer software codes are a secret" returned close to 1.5 million hits.)
What they're really saying is, we don't care that millions of Americans have been falsely arrested. All we care about is protecting our PROFITS!
The public is being deceived, lowering the BAC isn't about safety. It's about keeping DUI revenues flowing to state and corporate coffers.