Biker Blocko looks big this year, but "donations" to MADD again

Will they be giving out any of the key tags from the new fund raising program MADD came up wi.........er, stole from the War Amps?
 
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I'm not usually one to care about politics, but anything associated with MADD is boycotted with me.
Great potential to educate people, but with them sticking their nose where it doesn't belong, along with the fact that even their higher ups can't manage to stay sober kind of puts a sour taste in my mouth and will not support anything that supports them.
 
I would have figured that the organizers would have taken a hint from last year and sided with an actual charity instead of collecting money for a criminal organization :confused1:
 
FiReSTaRT said:
I would have figured that the organizers would have taken a hint from last year and sided with an actual charity instead of collecting money for a criminal organization :confused1:
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I think most people go for the event, not really the charity its donating too. And therefore there is still a pretty big, and always growing turn out...I know it has grown alot since the first one I attended in 05 or 06....None of the people I know that go, have any idea about MADD...

It sucks that some people will not attend just because of the charity it donates too, but the show must go on...I didnt even know there was any issues with MADD until I read a thread just like this one about it last year.....Not sure why they didnt make any changes as far as the charity...Im sure if no one went because of it they would change, but it seems 1000+ people still go so its not broken why fix it.....
 
Lynart said:
Yeah but that's one person, not the company.

Don't get me wrong, I think MADD is the dumbest mother ****ing name abbreviation ever and they're stupid as **** when it comes to coming up with scientific facts. But this is like saying one Chinese man eats dogs, all must eat dogs =/
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This wasn't a low level secretary, this was the President of the MADD chapter for that region.

Choose Another Charity Part 2: MADD
http://www.prosebeforehos.com/cultural-correspondent/12/16/choose-another-charity-part-2-madd/

M.A.D.D. admits fundraising practices wrong
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b3_1191974155
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Ask their founder, Candy Lightener: http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1119636699.html
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Guess it got away from her when they realized they could make some coin from it?
What she wanted and what is happening are different things.

Candy Lightner says that "police ought to be concentrating their resources on arresting drunk drivers—not those drivers who happen to have been drinking. I worry that the movement I helped create has lost direction." [SUP]3[/SUP] She is disturbed by MADD's shift from attacking drunk driving to attacking drinking in general.
Ms. Lightner left MADD and is concerned that the organization that she herself created is changing its focus. "It has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I ever wanted or envisioned," she says. "I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving." [SUP]4[/SUP] Lightner emphasized the importance of distinguishing between drinking alcohol on one hand and drunk driving on the other. [SUP]5[/SUP]
After Ms. Lightner criticized MADD, the organization went out of its way to try to minimize her role as the founder of the organization. It posed the question "Who founded MADD?," to which it replied "Although Candy Lightner is probably the best known of MADD's organizers, MADD was established by a group of women in California outraged after the death of a teenage girl killed by a repeat offender drunk driver." However, MADD has more recently softened its stance against her.
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As to the event, I for one care where my money goes. Motorcycle event or not, if it involves MADD, then I want nothing to do with it.
 
I don't know about all this MADD stuff but will we be able to buy beer there this year?
 
mikcbr said:
I don't know about all this MADD stuff but will we be able to buy beer there this year?
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Highly doubt it with that new bylaw that was passed. WTF?!?! =(

-Jamie M.
 
I will go, but will park my bike elsewhere to avoid donating to MADD. If I have to buy something inside ie: drink, will go somewhere else. But I am coming for the event.
 
Pretty sad that I can't go in to a restaurant, have a pint with my dinner and not worry about my bunghole if I for some reason have to blow on a popo's magic stick.
HATE drunk drivers, and I hardly ever drink but this whole .04 might get you charged if the cop is a dick thing is stupid.
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