Attack the drunks, not the businesses

The DuPage County Board wants to ban liquor from a strip club and fine the business as well as customers for violations.

Aside from the dubious constitutionality of singling out one business, I question why government is fining a business at all for serving liquor.

For the past century, Big Brother government has steadily eroded personal liberties in the belief that it knows better than we do what is good for us. At the same time, it has attacked business for actions that are really the fault of customers.

And people have responded by shirking responsibility for their own mistakes. Hence a recent lawsuit against McDonald's by a customer who claimed that they made him fat.

The DuPage County Board continues this trend by fining Diamond's as well as customers for violations of new liquor violations. They should do no such thing. No one forces anyone to drink to excess or drive drunk. So why treat them like children?

If the county board wants to attack drunken driving, it should penalize motorists rather than businesses that serve liquor. The board should also attack distracted or reckless driving of any kind such as talking on cell phones, text messaging, eating, applying lipstick or anything else that distracts people from driving.

Right now, drunk drivers suffer little punishment and these other folks suffer none at all, like the trucker who killed seven people in Indiana when he lost control of his rig while searching for a dropped doughnut.

So quit with the stupid laws over serving liquor and go after the motorists themselves and not just drunks but negligent drivers of any kind.

Make them grow up.

John Zwicky

Lombard