European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse 10 the stars and stripes thursday. June 3,1986/columns William Buckley a Little humiliation May be Good for lawbreakers what to no about Al Leies who Lake drugs they warn in know. And what lit do about people who drive while drunk lbs s "60 Lively As Ever featured one approach i i in toilet problem taken by n judge in Sarasota. Fla. Her Honor requires those found guilty of Drunken div maj who Are Lucky enough nol to have run Over any boil 10 submit 10 several sacrifices among them 50 hours of pc immunity sen ice a Fine of several Hundred dollars and a suspended Driver s License for six munits. Lizul the judge males a provision for those who need their car in order logo 1o work and this Means the Maji Irit in Sarasola. The judge permits the Delin quent in drive but Only logo to work nil in return and Ihen the innovation he requires him to Dri a with i bumper Slicker that rends. Convicted 1 111. Krysl riled dul stands for driving under the influence of Demon rum is left unstated Hiu is understood. What happened after the judge though to make this contribution to the Basket of inducements in drive Only when Suiter was that n civil suit was filed Oga Insi her by the Public defender Allee ing thai what she is doing is some Host unconstitutional Nice piquancy in inc situation is that the Public defender is inc husband of the judge. Now Tiik exact Legal Namre of in Public de fender s complaint is not slated hut much time is gun met in his Point Hal the judge s imposition of the bumper Slitter Humi mics the delinquent. When Mary Mcgrory Morley safer chimed in and said but Aren t All court sentences humiliating his Obs Valion was ignored. Hut of a ours humiliation is or surely ought to be accepted As a part of he human predicament aggravated insofar As we aggravated the Laws of nature and of Man the mining Assumption is that we ought nol to be humiliated no Matler what we do but this argues against a rudimentary sense of order. Athletes in the baseball leagues Are protesting Hal it is humiliating to he required to give urine specimens to establish that a player is not taking drugs. The objection is in part to the humiliation in part to the alleged inaccuracy of the Lem. Nut 10 consider Only the first Point. The Ai Helcio has signed a contract thai presupposes he will keep himself in lop physical condition in order to perform Ai the level of comp Cince in recognition of which he was hired to play. The pure Lihn min would say Here that the player should be free to effect his own degeneration and i Hen the contractor should be free to sue for damages. Bui that is the litigious Way to go and in any Case ii i mitc possible Hal a player degenerated by cocaine will nut have saved the Money with which to compensate the contractor. In you lose Hie 100-Yard race Are Yuu humiliated Only if you were obviously the top dog in Hal race and for some reason were below Par Vladimir Horowit went to Tokyo to give three concerts be cause three years ago he was Here and was critically gulled because if a poor performance. This Lime he showed them next Lime the racer will show them and what will the Driver in no a time the judge argues that his sensitivity to the offence he committed is heightened by the obloquy of those who spot that bumper sticker and who knows lease him or ostentatiously slow Down or Park heir cars until he passes or whatever. The Public defender likens the bumper Slicker to he Scarlet letter and Puritan Justice. Me civics the stocks where in the t7th a Colury offenders Vicic displayed in the Square an unusual punishment by contemporary standards but not. Surely inherently cruet. The first amendment guarantees to the press the right to give the name of someone found guilty say of speeding or of driving White drunk or of whoring or of Tan cheating la is implicit in the exercise of thai right that one s neighbors have a right to know who is guilty of what. Humiliation resides in the submission to discipline. The supreme humiliation is i be taken into a jail cell. And of course a jail awaits the Drunken Driver who instead of just weaving i Arnii the Road until apprehended by a policeman weaves into a child and kills him. It is the purpose of the organization Madd mothers against drunk driving precisely to stimulate More effective sanctions and the notion Hal a Sanction is of so Long As it does not humiliate is empty of disciplined thought the baseball player who refuses to cooperate in reasonable tests to validate his behaviour when not at the Hall Park May face the humiliation of a contract nol renewed. Demos showing unprecedented Unity conviction Nom Boot is wrong Aboul Salt ii. Which ii president now says he has nol finally decided to Tilp. The democrats think it s the biggest thing Hal has happened to them since Ronald Cagan Iun the Prisi Dency in i so and began making them eat dirt. The republicans on the other hand Aren t sure thai in will Mailer in the upcoming election. There has been some protest from Senate moderates Bui opposing the president is something that does nol come easily particularly in a Campaign year. Sen. I Pula Hawkins. A Fla. Who is in a stiff fight for survival against Florida gov. Robert Graham said the shift in gears on arms control is giving her no problems in her Campaign. We Are patriotic she said. We sup inn the save sen. Rudy Bosch win a Minn. It is not a problem people Sec that the treaty has already been seated by inc House democrats Are showing unprecedented Unity and conviction for once icy have a National Security question where they arc opposing the president instead of each other. Huus speaker tip o Neill who has a demonstrated unease and an institutional reluctance to Lake on a president on War and peace waded right into in Svith a speech Ai new York University where he said it was the wrong announcement made Al the wrong time for no apparent House majority Leader Jim Wright promptly took to the floor to express democratic outrage and made of a task Force to mobilize the troops. Vou have Only to look at the names on inc pro Salt Bills to see that the democrats have found finally a National Security Issue they can agree on. In the last four years they have regularly gone at each other s throats on Contra Aid and on Money for my missiles. Two democrats who helped the president to keep the my alive. Rep. Les Asp of Wisconsin and rep. Norman d. Dicks of Washington and who were Ham mered by Liberal colleagues for their defection to the i peacekeeper ranks arc now vying with each other for custody of Salt ii. Aspin is sponsoring a Bill Wilh House foreign affairs chairman Danle b. Fascell d-Fla., calling Tor the president to comply with the treaty limits. Dicks with Hep. Les Aucoin d-ore., is on a Tough second stage measure that so cold Cut Oli funds for weapons that exceed Salt ii limits. Aucoin incidentally thinks the crunch will come when the House faces the question of giving the president a National Security out on exceeding inc limits. A president who could certify human rights the effect a Salt in Tia diet Progress in Al Salvador Al the height of death squad activity would hardly hesitate to vouch for the indispensability of some new nuke. It will Lake real nerve to stand up to the Gipper and question his arms control credentials. Dicks is meanwhile extremely proud of the har Poon he is carrying in his Back that was planted there by Richard Pyrle the defense department s dark Emi Nence of administration anti arms controllers. Dicks has videotapes of their june 6 showdown when Pyrle told him that Congress had to choose Between Reagan and Gorbachev on the Salt ii limits. Anyone says Dicks who wants to continue to support the Salt provisions which they have been doing for the past four years is now the president is obviously displeased with this show of Force from a previously supine opposition. The real White House response which suggested thai Only improper packaging not substance was the problem was reported by Lou Cannon of the washing ton Post. The Reagan administration is planning to create a Blue ribbon commission to find an alternate arms control proposal. Actually in is intended As a commission 10 co opt democrats As the mention of Brent scowcroft the Maser hand Holder who brought in the democratic defectors on the my indicates. He persuaded Aspin Dicks and former rep now sen Albert Gore d-tenn., that a Belt of my would put Reagan in an arms control negotiating Frame of and. After two years of bitter Bailies the administration got so mrs. Instead of inc 100 ii had in mind. Said Dicks to Perle Ai the hot hearing you com Plain because you Only got 50 mrs. We got Dicks Sayi a commission aimed Al seducing democrats will not work this Lime. A us who Prau Syndicate
