Why is intoxication a crime at all? To me, that is even more important than private versus public. Who has a right to care if I want to sit somewhere stewed so long as I don't bother anyone or commit a crime?
Leonardo | Homepage | 03.22.06 - 4:42 pm | #

agreed! I don't see anything wrong with someone walking down the street intoxicated, as long as they're bothering anybody.
cicero | Homepage | 03.22.06 - 6:14 pm | #

There are certain groups, such as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), which started out with a noble purpose of curtailing the illegal and dangerous practice of driving drunk, and have mutated into a front for the Neo-Prohibitionist movement in this country. For the same reasons that brought about the Prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's they want to do it all over again.
What the hell, last time it only brought about the largest surge in organized crime in this country's history, why not give it another go?
Andy | 03.22.06 - 8:23 pm | #

this is absolutely a private property issue. But not because the bar is owned by a private individual, but because my mind is owned by a private individual; and as such, I have ultimate control over what I think, who I think about, and in what manner I do that.........even if it is aided by outside influences such as a drug (alcohol in this case).

But trying to convince people that they own themselves is an excercise in futility most times.
greg | 03.23.06 - 8:14 am | #