EDITORIAL: When Political Correctness becomes a political crime: Have a Beer, then go to jail.

A lot is going to be made of and said about today’s events with Bucs Wide Receiver Mike Williams getting arrested for a DUI. By now, you know the Blood Alcohol level was under the legal limit of .08. That legal limit changes over time. About ten or so years ago it was .10. Longer before that, when you got caught drinking and driving, you got a ticket. Before anyone takes my message the wrong way, I do not condone drunk driving. Drunk driving kills people needlessly. If anyone I loved were killed by a drunk driver, Im sure I too would look to start some kind of a group, like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), who are the main reason DUIs became a thing of the present. But there is a great difference between a person who is drunk, and a person who drinks. It seems that it is not enough to arrest drunk drivers, it is now the goal of Police to arrest anyone who drives with so much as a drink. The current legal limit is .08, about two beers for an average person. Mike Williams was caught with about as much alcohol as one 16oz beer. Legal limits can be raised, they can be lowered. Its all political. But arresting someone for getting behind the wheel of a car because they perhaps decided to be the responsible one and sip on ONE beer all night, is just plain wrong. The Police have said Williams car was swerving. My car swerves every time I come home or drive to work. And I havnt had a drink in about 5 years. I just swerve. I text sometimes, play with my iphone. Soon, that will be a jail-able offense too. Now were are hearing all about Mike Williams past at Syracuse, as if somehow that is relevant again. If it didn’t bother you when he was catching that Touchdown, then it shouldn’t now. Today, were starting to see the problems with a society that is geared towards too much policital correctness. It’s almost as if there is a counter balance at work. You had a 70s women’s movement where women wanted to be the same as men, and equal, and today you have women who want to be different, but equal. The DUI is a tool that can be used the right way. We can use it to remove the guy who thinks there is no problem getting behind a 4000 pound sled and trying to steer it home while he probably couldn’t walk to the same place. But when we are arresting someone for having a blood alcohol level that is not even illegal, then its almost to me like were arresting someone for writing bad checks because his check bounced because of an NSF. As a society, we have to be aware of the difference, because one day it could be us, and when it is, no one will read about it in the papers, because we are not NFL stars. And good thing, because then people would question our past again too.