Anti-party ordinance shows surplus of law enforcement funds.

The Des Moines Register headline exposes the nanny state’s latest assault on reason: W.D.M. may punish adults if kids drink The story details the “social host” exception to Iowa law that permits adults to serve alcohol at private parties.

It appears that the pursuit of a zero risk society desires to intrude on the privacy of not only under-age drinkers but the adult home-owners who “serve” the alcohol.
This means that the parents of an under-age returning vet could be arrested for allowing a twenty year old veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns and his buddies of a similar age access to a keg of Bud.

Has contemporary America become so terrified of risk that people are seriously considering allowing government to reach that far into our homes to prevent young adults from consuming alcohol? If so, then West Des Moines needs to surrender every penny of federal and state assistance it receives for public safety because they are nearing zero risk. Zero risk is never a good objective because the police state necessary to achieve it would need to intrude into every orifice of the body politic.

What does it say about a place where kids with a keg of contraband hooch could trigger an actual police investigation to determine if the keg was situated with malice aforethought? Every law enforcement agency claims that it has insufficient resources the explanation for the failure to curtail statewide meth usage, so maybe the state money could be better spent on meth interdiction.. It also sounds like valuable Federal law enforcement dollars that are presently occupied in suppressing suburban in-home raves could be better utilized in immigration enforcement, particularly in an urban area that purports to have insufficient law enforcement resources to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Al Qaeda interdiction simply seems more important than alcohol interdiction. Maybe its time for an examination of priorites.