AA didn't work for Debra Oberlin....apparently

Former president of MADD arrested on DUI charge

By Cindy Swirko
Staff writer

Published: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.

A former president of the defunct local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving was arrested recently by the Gainesville Police Department on a DUI charge.

Debra Oberlin, 48, was arrested after she had difficulty on a field sobriety test. She registered a .234 and .239 on breath alcohol tests. Florida's legal limit for driving is .08.

Oberlin, a Realtor, had no comment when contacted Thursday by The Sun.

On Feb. 18 at 1:10 a.m., an officer spotted Oberlin driving erratically on Northwest 19th Street, swerving and crossing lanes, an arrest report states. Oberlin was pulled over in the 3600 block of Northwest 39th Avenue.

The officer wrote that Oberlin smelled of alcohol and had watery, bloodshot and dilated eyes. The report states that Oberlin told the officer she had four beers.

Gainesville's MADD chapter existed for several years in the 1990s before closing in 1996 because of lack of financial support. Oberlin was the chapter president for three years.

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Blogger Jeremy Witteveen (Le Café Witteveen) posted a blog entry entitled "I love you, Debra Oberlin" and got this response:

"This hippocritical bitch should be public beat to death or better yet,turned over to any 100 of the thousands whose lives she helped ruin with her holier than thou bullshit,and let them deal with her.It would be too much to ask for that the system will subject her to the full extent of the law.  They will probably coddel her because of the income flow she helped create."

Mothers Against Drunk Driving "was originally formed by Candice Lightner, who later left the organization. In 2002 she said that MADD 'has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned ... I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.'"  MADD, like AA, the "recovery" system, and IDIP providers here in New Hampshire like Amethyst Foundation, Inc., Serenity House, Inc., REAP, Inc., don't want to eliminate drinking and driving--they want to eliminate drinking entirely in keeping with the religious/cult doctrines of AA (while making quite a nice, tax-free, profit doing so).

Good job, AA!  You took an organization that once had merit (MADD) and ran it into the ground, trampling people's civil liberties, creating a legion of people that absolutely despise you.

Former MADD President Arrested For D.U.I.--Oh, The Irony!

From the Gainesville Sun:

Former president of MADD arrested on DUI charge

By Cindy Swirko
Staff writer

Published: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.

A former president of the defunct local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving was arrested recently by the Gainesville Police Department on a DUI charge.

Debra Oberlin, 48, was arrested after she had difficulty on a field sobriety test. She registered a .234 and .239 on breath alcohol tests. Florida's legal limit for driving is .08.

Oberlin, a Realtor, had no comment when contacted Thursday by The Sun.

On Feb. 18 at 1:10 a.m., an officer spotted Oberlin driving erratically on Northwest 19th Street, swerving and crossing lanes, an arrest report states. Oberlin was pulled over in the 3600 block of Northwest 39th Avenue.

The officer wrote that Oberlin smelled of alcohol and had watery, bloodshot and dilated eyes. The report states that Oberlin told the officer she had four beers.

Gainesville's MADD chapter existed for several years in the 1990s before closing in 1996 because of lack of financial support. Oberlin was the chapter president for three years.

Oops!  What confuses me is why she lied and told the officer she had four beers.  That's more than enough to be over the legal limit (it takes only two).  And it certainly wasn't enough for the whopping .239 she blew.  I thought the president of MADD would be a little more knowledgeable about D.U.I. laws.  I hope she appreciates the strict punishment she'll get as a direct result of MADD's lobbying efforts.

My experience with the New Hampshire workers who run the Impaired Driver Intervention Programs (IDIP) suggest that they are mostly self-loathing, hateful, former alcoholic AA true-believers and religious fundamentalists whose mission it is to get you to admit that you are an alcoholic and get you to AA to find God and sobriety.  They are of low intelligence, gullible, rigid and inflexible thinkers, who are afraid of change.  They've been give some power by the state and want to flex it by bending you to their will and making you suffer as much as possible.

MADD, like AA, is a religious fundamentalist anti-alcohol movement.  The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League spearheaded the constitutional prohibition effort. Groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) assume that mantle today.  They are a neo-prohibitionist organization founded on self-righteous anger and grief.  MADD wants to eliminate alcohol consumption entirely.  The founding president of MADD, Candy Lightner, left in disgust from the organization that she herself created because of its change in goals. "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."  MADD is now the most powerful anti-alcohol lobbying group in the country. 

There are many good sites that accurately describe MADD and which include citations to record.  One is Dr. David Hanson's "Mother's Against Drunk Driving:  A Crash Course in MADD."  I've also posted some in the margin on the right.  (In general, don't trust Wikipedia for information on powerful groups like MADD or AA.  Their multitudes are no doubt constantly editing the pages, putting forth what they want you to read.  Only trust pages that cite to reliable sources for their information.)

Perhaps I'm jumping to conclusions about the typical MADD member, but I doubt it.  When I look at Oberlin's mug shot, I see the same self-loathing, hateful, self-righteous, stupid stare I saw in all the people involved in New Hampshire's IDIP program.  It has been frightening and infuriating to be at the mercy of people like this.  Don't let it happen to you.  If it already has, read on and arm yourself for the battle ahead!