What The Hell Is Wrong With The Western World?

After viewing my last blog, particular questions may come to your mind, like: Is the statistic that 35% of our nations FAS children will end up in a federal prison unsubstantiated? Could we compare that to other disabilities? Is it our collective fault?

NO, NO & YES!

This won't take long - it's too easy. 1st, I have read from a ton of sources about our FASD children committing atrocious crimes. Remember the holes in the brain? Well, those holes are caused by drinking pregnant women. (Please - I am not slandering but merely telling the truth.) And the other item of absolute non-controversy is: "Irreversible FAS brain damage can cause children and adults to repeatedly "do stupid things..." caused by these holes in places that affect judgement, right and wrong, and compulsion coupled with lack of control.

In fact, an FAS child could potentially do as many bad things from the umbilical alcohol-induced sac of life without drinking later as an adult, as an otherwise uneffected, yet drinking idiot, could do when he or she is wired on Vodka or Rum. Point - the police would be "hand-cuffed" to not say that alcohol produces some of the most vicious attacks on human life than any other drug. It's true.

I know this is getting messy. My real point is when you consider that 35% of all FAS children will end up in a federal penitentiary at least once in their life time, and then you subtract all other "barbarians" for the rest of the jail population (and there are many, many, many), you can see how dangerous it is for our country to allow drinking during pregnancy to continue. In other words I say bluntly, "Make a bill, make a law that will stop pregnant women from drinking." If that were to happen, our country could save potentially billions of dollars and many lives as well as the family frustration of having or adopting an FAS child.

Now I revert to MADD. Look at their progress. I believe very strongly that MADD has saved a lot of innocent lives. I mean a lot. In fact the blood level for drinking and driving went down to .05 from .08 in many of our provinces in Canada. If you think for 1 second you would realize that MADD's targeted, and sometimes gruesome ads, have been proven effective. I want the very same, and in this case, besides innocent lives, we're talking about 225-million dollars per child per lifetime.

This much: $225,000,000.00

It's coming out of your pockets. Like I need to tell you that.

So here: Pregnant women + buying alcohol giving our government lots of revenue + having FAS babies + then federal prison (35%) or some kind of terrible, tragic event - adding up to:

 $225,000,000.00 - COMING FROM WHERE?

Everyone's pockets.


The government is spending a lot of money on defence, which I agree is necessary to a point. But take away 1-billion dollars and spend it on FASD campaigns as vigorously as MADD and the governments imposed warning labels on cigarettes, have done. This time put ads on bottles of booze. Well we know that that is not going to happen. Gosh, it might mean less revenue for liquor sales. And while we are in the liquor store we might as well take a look around and see "Coolers," ads labelled as "Refreshments" in big neon lettering on the wall above those shelves. On another wall by the wine, neon letters spelling out "A Get Away." The government purposely advertises "well-being" when you walk into their liquor stores.

We can ask, what's wrong?