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…