The BBC never ceases to push a Nanny State agenda and often stumbles across some ingenious angles to use:
An American-Indian tribe in South Dakota has sued some of the world’s biggest beer firms over severe alcohol-related issues in the community. The Oglala Sioux Tribe are asking for $500m (£316m) for healthcare, social services and child rehabilitation.
Okay, so is anyone thirsty around here?
The lawsuit also names the nearby town of Whiteclay, Nebraska, which has four beer shops that sold nearly five million beer cans in 2010 despite having only about a dozen residents.
Alcohol is outlawed on the reservation and the nearest town which allows alcohol is 20 miles (32 metric thingy) away
So why has this sorry excuse of a story made it onto the BBC site?
Nebraska State Senator LeRoy Louden has said that after struggling with the problem for years, the state has introduced legislation that would impose restrictions – on the types of alcohol that can be sold and business hours.
Ah, there we go. Legislation is normal in BBC-land. Personal responsibility isn’t. Alcohol is already banned and they are planning further restrictions? The BBC is playing the victim card as usual. Just look at all of the pro-price fixing ‘medical reports’ and lobby group press releases released without rebuttal by the BBC for similar policies in the UK.
The reservation has grappled with alcohol problems and poverty for generations……includes Shannon County, the third poorest county in the US
The BBC – never reporting the grow-a-pair-and-sort-yourself-out point of view. Well, they are Red Indians Native Americans after all…
So if I spot a heroin dealer and buy some from him, it’s the state’s fault if I become addicted…
If you are an “oppressed minority” then that’s basically how it works, yes.
If your dealer is from one, though, then he’s a “victim” as well.
This is just churnalism, copying and pasting from the AP and US reports. The BBC isn’t dealing with the personal responsibility angle because nobody else is at the moment. Of course, that means the BBC is nothing special as a news organization, but there’s no bias in churnalism. Just laziness.
I mean, they have to fill the website out somehow, and have to choose between real stories and easy button-pushing, and button-pushing emotional pieces draw in the coveted eyeballs they need for advertising revenue on the US version. This is about increasing US readership, not for your benefit. But at your expense anyway.
If BBC = Alcohol bad why such huge disclosed expenditure on entertainment booze? Sure combination of gross hypocrisy balanced with need to keep a lollipop figure – {diet?) coke far more slimming eh Richard Bacon!!! et al
There is some evidence that some ethnic groups, notably the Australian Aborigine are genetically incapable of handling alcohol. For this reason the Eastern Arnhem Land has been declared a dry area by the Aborigine Authorities.
While I don’t think that suing the alcohol producers will necessarily work the issue is a lot more complicated that All Seeing Eye and the commenters here suggest.
There is ‘some evidence’ for lots of things – largely depends on the answer being sort – Hitler had ‘evidence’ that the Jews were genetically inferior – all kind of ethnic IQ evidence is floated periodically causing outrage along the way. Nanny knows best, just take your medicine (or be denied it!), your mind belongs to Nanny….
The BBCs nerve knows no bounds.
They have been pushing the notion that giving implants of contraceptives to thirteen year-old girls in class is somehow “progressive”.
That it is done without the knowledge of the parents…or even the GP…is seen as “child sensitive”.
That sex involving a 13 year-old is illegal/statutory rape seems not to bother the BBC.
Guess this law-like the one preventing booze sales to Indian tribes in the USA-is to be ignored…and the parent or authorities will be blamed for whatever pigpen consequences result.
How come the BBC are always right, no matter what they say or do?
“That sex involving a 13 year-old is illegal/statutory rape seems not to bother the BBC.”
Unless you’re Catholic. It does explain the absence of certain events from the news though.
The troubles of the American Indian are a fine example of what happens to a people completely controlled by government. The best thing we could do for them would be to dismantle the Bureau of Indian Affairs and encourage them to LEAVE the reservations and go where jobs are!