ASH goes MADD

Just like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) moved away from drunk driving campaigning to become a prohibitionist organization once it had achieved its initial aims, Pilar points out that ASH appears to be going down the same moral slippery slope.

“MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) started off campaigning against drunk driving and they were successful in achieving their aims because society, as a whole, agreed with their aims and couldn’t understand why the government had done nothing to stop the drunks,” explains Pilar. “However, flushed with their success the MADD women didn’t want to return to their kitchen sinks and morphed into a prohibitionist organization campaigning for strict alcohol sales and drinking laws.”

“MADD eventually became such a moral crusading blight on society that the original founder has disassociated herself from the organization!”

“Having achieved its original aims – banning smoking in workplaces and public institutions – the ASH people really have no more reason to exist and should pack up and find a real job,” says Pilar, “but they’re digging their heels in and becoming moral crusaders just like their MADD counterpart.”

“Between them, the MADD and ASH people are determined to wipe out alcohol and tobacco use,” says Pilar, “and this time around, prohibition will work because they have the World Health Organization and Big Pharma on their side.”

“Prohibition will be achieved gradually, inch by inch, rather than by the drastic legislation last century which resulted in a bootlegging crime wave,” explains Pilar. “First they work on the obvious – that drunk driving causes death, and smoking causes lung cancer – and, having garnered public support to achieve their initial laudatory aims, they then work on less obvious factors to demonize not just drinking and smoking, but drinkers and smokers.”

“ASH has been going strong for nearly 40 years and it is not going away any more than MADD is,” says Pilar. “There are now laws in place to prevent drunk driving and smoking in enclosed places – and smokers are a lot more observant of the laws affecting them than drunk drivers are – but the aim is to stop drinking and smoking altogether and replace these habits with pharmaceutical products.”

“They will achieve their final aims by a relentless moral crusade against drinking and smoking, preaching it from the pulpits and classrooms,” says Pilar. “The safe level of drinking is being reduced year by year, and more and more dodgy studies are being done to show that drinking is as carcinogenic as smoking.”

“It will be a lot harder to convince people that drinking is as bad as smoking because so many more people are addicted to it – and there are plenty of old folk around who remember too vividly how bad the Prohibition years were – but when you consider that 40 years ago smokers were in the majority you get to understand that constant and relentless chipping away will eventually turn the tide far more successfully than any outright prohibition.”

“MADD and ASH are on a roll, they have powerful friends, and they’re out to save us all from ourselves and if they don’t get us, they’ll get our children and grandchildren – that is, of course, if they haven’t been so scared off by the horrors of alcohol and tobacco that they’ve turned to hard drugs and done themselves in good and proper.”


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