Scared as rabbits?

[Jerry D Mead]

Tom...Jeez! These guys are going to think I put you up to that. Sounds like one of my rants.

You're absolutely right about everything you say. And the saddest part is our supposed friends do us as much or more damage than our enemies.

Not unlike your "Portman Group" we have industry-funded "The Century Council" running around kissing up to the anti-alcohol fanatics and actually giving them money as well as verbal support...the idea being that the antis won't think we're such awful people.

Then you have the wholesalers trade association (WSWA)fighting desparately to protect its middle tier monopoly going so far as to support (100% funding) a sham organization called (ARAA)Americans for Responsible Alcohol Access (sic) that has got in bed with the likes of MADD, SADD and WCTU (Womens Christian Temperance Union of Prohibition era fame)claiming that interstate shipping of wine is supplying minors with an easy source of illegal alcohol...even though there's not one documented case of a minor making such a purchase that was not assisted by an adult as part of a sting.

Yeah, we colonists sure have screwed it up.

The Wine Curmudgeon