By Marilyn Brennan Santa Monica
Alert the media: Another celebrity driving drunk on our streets (“Freaky Tuesday,” July 25).
While I feel sorry that a talented young woman (Lindsay Lohan) is determined to drink and drug herself to death, I do feel that she can afford a driver to cart her around while she does it. She has the right to kill herself, but she, or any other drunk driver, does not have the right to drive on our streets and put individuals and their children at risk.
Of course, asking someone whose brain is soaked with alcohol and drugs to see reality or make sane decisions is a joke.
Do we have to see the headline: “Lindsay Lohan kills family of five in drunk-driving rampage,” or Paris Hilton or Joe Blow? Let’s not be permissive with people who are potential killers on our streets.
I feel people who have lost loved ones to drunks behind the wheel should be the judges at their trials and their star status won’t mean a thing.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 27, 2007. Read the original PDF.