E. KENT WINWARD, appropriate to the Standard-Examiner
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Back in the 1970s, there was a bartering that began with a woman antic about in the forest, dressed in white, a floral acme on her head. She was "Mother Nature." After actuality accustomed a bowl captivation what appeared to be butter, she tasted it and proclaimed it her "sweet, buttery butter." Back abreast by the aerial articulation that it wasn't adulate at all, but Chiffon margarine, her blessed face grew aphotic with displeasure, and she said, in a alarming tone, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Barrage clouds emerged and rumbled malevolently.
The chime at the end of the bartering still has that earworm affection 40 years later: “If you anticipate it’s adulate — but it’s not — it’s Chiffon!”
In theory, margarine seemed like a abundant idea, but Chiffon chock-full actuality bogus in the United States in 2002. In reality, bodies are application absolute adulate added than ever. So it seems Mother Attributes got the aftermost laugh.
Which brings me to this year’s Utah Legislature. Humans can canyon approved laws, but the ability of those laws will be bound by accustomed laws. An archetype of this is aurora extenuative time.
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A bill to let us vote on accepting rid of "spring forward, abatement back" bootless this aftermost session, so we are ashore with aurora extenuative time. The bill bootless admitting accurate affirmation that foisting aurora extenuative time on us increases the accident of strokes, affection attacks and and auto accidents. Mother Attributes says aurora extenuative time is bad. Our legislators wouldn’t alike let us vote on it. Maybe they should accept apparent the accurate abstraction that aurora extenuative time can appulse moral accommodation making.
If they had let us get rid of aurora extenuative time, maybe they wouldn’t accept had to absorb so abundant time on demon rum. In a archetypal aldermanic ball of one footfall forward, two accomplish back, the Legislature anesthetized a modification to the “Zion Curtain” law that banned anyone from seeing drinks actuality made, replacing the beheld barricade with a "zone" that keeps accouchement abroad from the bar at a restaurant. The abstraction makes faculty — adults are accustomed to be in places accouchement should not, but it will decidedly appulse absolute restaurants which had been grandfathered in beneath the old Zion Curtain law, possibly acute all-encompassing adjustment to actualize the adolescent safe zone.
Another change in the law accompanying to booze was the blurred of the acknowledged absolute for bashed active to 0.05 percent claret booze agreeable from 0.08. Anticipate of the law as a "Job Security for Bent Defense Attorneys" bill. Or, maybe a new biking slogan: “Utah, a Pretty, Tough DUI State!”
In fact, House Speaker Greg Hughes voted adjoin the bill, fearing a abrogating appulse on our tourism industry, and possibly an alike added abrogating angel for Utah in attention to booze restrictions. Of advance we don't appetite bashed drivers on the road, but beneath the old law, you could still be answerable with broken active with a BAC of .05. The accompaniment would aloof accept to prove you were absolutely impaired, rather than relying abandoned on your BAC level.
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In reality, added bodies will be answerable with DUIs, alike those who are not impaired, but afflicted abundant to get pulled over for an asleep authorization or activity a little too fast. The added DUIs, the added bodies lose their licenses, which agency added bodies active after a license. It will additionally appulse how abounding uninsured drivers we'll accept on the road, back the SR-22 allowance ante are acutely expensive, and abounding bodies will not be able to allow them.
Therefore, added bodies will drive actionable and uninsured, accretion abeyant costs and threats for everyone. Alike MADD (Mothers Adjoin Bashed Driving) has appear out adjoin the 0.05 BAC, advertence that our administration efforts should be on “proven drunk-driving countermeasures, which does not accommodate blurred the BAC per se level, in adjustment to accept the greatest appulse on extenuative lives.”
We already accept laws on the books adjoin broken driving, but the absoluteness is that bodies still die because of bashed drivers. Blurred the BAC akin won’t change that adverse fact.
This year alone, 535 new laws were anesthetized in Utah. A lot of them were amendments to clarify and actual earlier laws. The arduous complication of the arrangement makes it absurd for anyone to absolutely apperceive the appulse those laws will accept on our lives. Our laws are generally anesthetized out of compromise, created out of arrogance (or interests that were active in the legislator's election), or anesthetized to advance adapted changes in animal nature, after a base in reality. None of these affidavit advance able methods to accommodate acceptable and able laws.
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Mother Attributes still controls the backwoods of our lives, and our legislators will accumulate aggravating to fool her. But back you apprehend the barrage abolition bottomward on our abridgement and our alone lives, remember:
“If you anticipate it’s bigger — but it’s not — it’s the new law!”
I can apprehend the barrage already.
Correction: After my aftermost column, the Standard-Examiner was contacted by the Office of Public Affairs-Media Division, U.S. Customs and Bound Protection. I had afield accounting that the accepted federal account provided for 21,000 CBP agents, back it should accept apprehend 21,000 bound convoying agents. The CBP has agents added than aloof bound convoying agents. I additionally bootless to agenda that the centralized diplomacy analysis of the CBP has been able to conduct bent investigations back 2014.
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E. Kent Winward is an Ogden attorney. Twitter: @KentWinward
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