Youth Rights The REAL Part 2

So. Did I forget to mention the legal drinking age in the USA? It's 21. But as I said before I can do just about anything else prior to that once I turn 18.

So am I mature enough to vote and die and have sex and be executed (oh and sent off to Guantanamo Bay where I can enjoy a lovely cock meat sandwich) and do other such "mature" things but I am still too developmentally delayed to enjoy a beer on the porch with my friends and subsequently become smashed out of my mind leading to drunken and possible unprotected sex? To which later if I don't want to feel like I whore I'll report the sex as being coerced or what not and send that asshole to jail? (Awful scenario, I know, but it happens)

Leading onto new and wonderful things, since I was already on to the topic of sex I shall continue on with this even more controversial subject matter. SEX. OOH. SEX.

X-RATED.

No really. Who hasn't thought about sex? Mormons, I know you have, a lot. Nuns? Oh yeah! Priests? They apparently weren't paying attention during class when the teacher said "rape is a sin" especially the rape of 10 year old boys. Ouch.

Oh let's not forget the very relevant and historical rape of women. Not just young girls but women of all ages and races. They have been raped and raped and raped and beaten down and disrespected for thousands of years. Treated as mere object, as stupid and weak. As farm equipment (yes, I said that, look it up) and as bearers of children. Which were also treated basically the same way, yes, rape included.

Children, women and minorities have all been treated with massive amounts of disrespect and abuse over and over again and all groups have been subjugated for simply being themselves.

The last group of these original 3 is still being subjugated, controlled, abused, disrespected etc. And that group is of course CHILDREN. Children have had next no to rights forever. And they probably will not have them until they forcefully PROVE to those in control (mostly their controlling parents) that they are not immature little brats.

Up until the age of about 10 (maybe older maybe younger, usually about when puberty hits) children are usually immature little brats. Though this is not a blanket mind-set for those under 10 or before they reach puberty because everyone develops at their own pace and based on their surroundings and their parents they could be reading astrophysics by the time they are 10 and actually understand it (read: hello child genius!) unlike most 40 year olds with a Master's in English, History or Philosophy, hell even Medicine (aka Doctors.)

We've established that there are smart kids out there. Smart kids who are way smarter than most adults. We have also established there are kids who are more mature than adults. Mature, but powerless. When I was 16 I went to Japan, obviously I was mature enough to go, but was powerless when I got there, mostly because under the law I was basically an invalid, unable to make decisions for myself and having to have a guardian sign FOR me... instead of WITH me or sign at all. Same situation in the USA.

I don't know about you but I find all of this disrespect to be highly offensive. (Couldn't you already tell? If not, welcome to the slow thinkers club.)

I am 20 years old and for the most part I am considered an adult (minus the devil alcohol, of course) and can have sex with whomever I like so long as I do commit statutory rape on someone below the legal sex age. Yes, I said that.

What is statutory rape?

According to our wonderful systems of laws and regulations, statutory rape is defined as this:

statutory rape

–noun U.S. Law.

sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of consent, which age varies in different states.

[Origin: 1930–35]

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/statutory%20rape)

Wow. Only with a girl? So I guess I CAN have sex with a boy under the "age of consent"... not really -- though biased towards women, the older women can be put in jail nowadays -- many female teachers have been who have done such an act. Not that I'd want to... I prefer older males... they are usually less stupid.

This had been ignored until like the 80s because women were seen as harmless, though I really doubt any young boy (typically in high school) would say they were abused by their teacher if she wanted to "get it on" with him or so to speak, especially if she was "hawt." In fact one such case they got married! Did anyone commit a crime? I don't think so. Oh and he was 13 and she was like almost 30 when it began... he's like 20 now and they have a kid together. I think the teacher's first name was Debbie or something. Big age difference but lust (and love too) knows no age and if it's mutual... shut up and go home, leave the lovers in peace, goddammit.

Moving on. The "age of consent" is bullshit. While I'm not a pedo, statutory rape should not be a crime. Rape is rape and there no excuse for forced sex, those bastards need to get raped themselves and once their in jail, I can almost guarantee they will. (What the fuck does that say about our prison systems? I'll talk about that later.) When I was 15 and I wanted to have sex with a fellow 15 year old he technically could be charged with statutory rape! (Because he's having sex with a person under the age of consent even though he himself is under the age too) and I most likely would be treated like a victim! Even though it was CONSENSUAL! Key word! Key word!!! Are you reading...!!! KEY WORD! Not RAPE! NOT FORCED SEX!

RAPE

1.	the unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.

2.	any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.

3. statutory rape.

4. an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.

5.	Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to force to have sexual intercourse.

7.	to plunder (a place); despoil.

8.	to seize, take, or carry off by force.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to commit rape.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rape)

OOh my god, they added statutory rape on the list. That pisses me off. The first definition is compelling a woman through physical force or duress to have sex... which means he probably beat the shit out her until she gave in and he raped her. Last I checked, that wasn't cool. But since when is statutory rape involving force? Never. That's when. They made up this law because they knew teens would be having sex with whomever they pleased (because teens have the most hormones of all and they intend to use them) and they wanted to punish the older person because the teen must refrain from sex until they're 18!!!! OMFG!!! Discrimination!!! Example of!!

B U L L S H I T

Utter and complete bullshit. For all of you labeled as a sex offender because you had consensual sex with someone under the "age of consent" I feel for you and you will get justice some day. I promise. And for those (who are 98% female) who are under the "age of consent" and want to have sex with someone under it over it always remember USE BIRTH CONTROL. And boys USE A CONDOM. DO NOT LET YOUR PARENTS KNOW! Someone could end up in jail!
Your parents are the main reason people end up in jail but not the only reason. Be as discreet as possible and be safe. You are not bad people for having sex and no one should look down on you for doing so, or put you in jail.

Long story short this is my advice:

Have sex, drink, smoke pot but don't drive while doing any of those or after any of those (after sex might be okay) because you're not hurting anyone if you're by yourself, even better. Don't drink alone though, you need someone to splash some water on you if you're really out of it.. or take you to the hospital... don't drink too much.

Off-topic Post

So... apparently Irish Gaelic = SPAM. According to ye olde Blogger my Irish Gaelic practice blog I made the other day (I have a Japanese and Chinese one as well) was automatically flagged as being SPAM.

While it may be incomprehensible babble, it is not SPAM. I made that blog in the hope that one day I could at least write in comprehensible babble that the population (few as they may be) of Irish Gaelic speakers could actually understand.

I love languages and who the fuck would go through the trouble of making a SPAM blog anyways?

Stupid bastards.

Youth Rights - Part Two-ish because blogspot is being a bitch

We are treating what is essentially a public health problem (anything involving drugs of any kind are relevant to this argument) as a criminal matter. I am not a criminal, I am not a bad person, I am not deserving of jail time because I put something in MY OWN BODY THAT I OWN that you say I shouldn't have!

Oh and last I checked (and I just said) I OWN MY BODY, NOT YOU! NOT YOU THE GOVERNMENT!

In keeping with America being a free country... your laws regarding my body... DO NOT APPLY.
They are invalid! (Because there is no Constitutional Amendment to support this ILLEGAL law I do not and will not follow whatever it happens to be that involves my body.)

Ahh... ranting... I just had to get that out of my system... forgive me but I have a valid point. Ask a cop if you are property of the USA.

I dare anyone to ask a cop that.

Just see how he responds.

Then ask him if there is a Constitutional Law granting the government control over your body.

Just see how he responds.

Just wait and see.
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There will be a part 2. Do not worry.

Youth Rights - Part One

There comes a time, in everyone's life, when he or she changes from a child to an adult. In the United States however, this time is divided, it is separate, and therefore not equal.

In the United States of America when one turns 18 years old one is considered legally an adult. The adult can now sue, be sued, be tried as an adult (we'll get to the hypocrisies and contradictions later), be executed, join the military and kill, have sex, smoke tobacco, get married (without parental permission), quit school, purchase R-rated movies and up (including porn), vote, sign contracts, get into debt etc.

However a person who is legally classified as an adult regarding all of these good things, is then classified as a minor aka a "child," "a person of lesser importance" or perhaps not a person at all.

Our right to put something we want into our bodies is denied to us once again and we are told it's "Bad for you," "bad for your mental development," "your body is not mature enough to handle it," "you are too much a child for this! Grow up some before you can have it!" and what would that be, that is so BAD for us... mind you BECAUSE we have not yet reacher another arbitrary age?

Alcohol
Ah, we meet again!

Oh no! Alcohol is the devil! It hurts so many young people today! We must help them by not allowing them to have it and when they do (they always do) get it punish them and make them criminals, make their lives filled with sadness and persecution (aka prosecution) so it'll be much harder for them to get a job and go to college!

Just because they want to drink some beer! OH THE HORROR! THE HORROR!

Yes, alcohol IS bad for you. It can maim and kill you and many people have died due to this legal intoxicant.

However, putting someone in jail because they just want to hang out with their friends, act like fools (all drunk people act like fools, age is irrelevant) and then pass out is not helping anyone!

• Put them in treatment centers if they have a problem!

• Teach them the dangers of alcohol.(Teaching someone something is always helpful, America's public schools have failed me and everyone else.)
• Tell them that alcohol is safe when used in moderation!
• Tell them they could and other people could die if they use too much! Or drive while drunk!
• Make it stick!

Under no circumstances should you shove a MIP on a person who is over 18 and LEGALLY an adult. YOU CANNOT CHARGE AN ADULT AS A MINOR. AN ADULT IS NOT A MINOR NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE WANTS TO SAY. THAT IS DISCRIMINATION AND DECEIT! AND IT IS WRONG AND SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED!

Liberal Incarnate: A Voice of Freedom -- Drugs Part 2

The [True] History of Drugs
continued...

Then there was Marijuana, also commonly known as Weed, Dope, Pot, Mary-Jane etc. Marijuana is, and let me make this clear to all of you who do not know this, a plant. Marijuana is a naturally growing PLANT. It has been here since man were monkeys and civilization was something yet to be dreamed of. Marijuana is also known as Cannabis, the plant we know and hate so much is called Cannabis Sativa.

The most commonly reported effects of smoking Cannabis include:

• Sleepiness
• Hunger (aka "the munchies")
• Feeling of being connected with the universe (or some higher power)
• Mild hallucinations (if any)
• Paranoia

The most common negative side effects of smoking Cannabis include:

• Sleepiness
• Hunger (aka "the munchies")
• Feeling of being connected with the universe (or some higher power)
• Mild hallucinations (if any)
• Paranoia
• Pain relief -- WAY better than Ibuprofen, Tylenol, Darvoset, Vicodin etc. -- without the possibility of addiction... or death! (or serious stomach ailments... Thank You Ibuprofen!)
  
• Mood stabilizer or normalizer -- for those with Depression
• Reaction-time decreaser (if you're REALLY high to where you cannot operate a vehicle and also value your life and the lives of others: DO NOT DRIVE)
  
• You might not even be able to get high :(
  

That seems to be about it in regards to its effects. Now, people who have mental problems or a tendency to have them should not take any drug that would agitate the problem, legal or illegal...well people who have been recommended it by a doctor...it's his word against mine and I don't owe $100,000 in loans to medical school.

The most common way of taking Cannabis is smoking, however some of the other ways are using a vaporizer and cooking into something like a cake or cookies something else that would require butter of some sort. Cannabis is classified as a hallucinogen however based on what I have heard one does not hallucinate, per se, but imagines a world unlike their own and is transported to it --- all in their own heads of course.

Marijuana, Cannabis or whatever else you want to call it has never maimed or killed a single human being or animal in its history of being used. The same cannot be said for federally APPROVED prescription and legal drugs like: ****

1. Valium
2. Xanax
3. Alcohol
4. Vicodin
5. Oxycontin
6. Tobacco
7. Ritalin
8. Ephedra
9. Ibuprofen
10. And any warning label on a drug that says if you take more than the recommended dosage...aka overdose, you die. (you should all live by this, and read the warning labels!)
    

Number of deaths in the history of history caused by Marijuana: Zero

Now let me tell you a summary of how Marijuana has been outlawed, banned, forbidden, punishable by fine, imprisonment (up to life,) inability to get student loans, get a job, keep your children etc.

Racism. As I said before Racism is the reason why most drugs have been banned. As for Marijuana, like the Chinese with Opium, was banned because Mexicans were bringing it over, selling it, and getting rich off of it, as were African Americans and so on. The white man, was afraid of losing his white woman to the minorities so he outlawed it and put the minorities, who were typically the ones who used the drugs, into jail and labeled them as criminals, as evil people who are a threat to society and should be punished!* And so they were. This applies to Shrooms, Meth, Cocaine etc. All of these drugs brought profit to the minorities and it was taken away from them by the white man, this did not only happen in the US but in most of the countries now.

As for Marijuana, it in its particular case it was outlawed because Alcohol had recently become legal again in the United States of America and the extra police force hired on to deal with the Alcohol didn't want to be out of a job... they needed something to do. This was also right smack dab in the middle of the Great Depression and they REALLY needed law enforcement to prevent the hungry, angry, out of work and homeless masses (also known as poor people) from going 15th Century on Hoover and his cronies.

The entire reason Alcohol was outlawed in the first place is because religious people and some women thought by outlawing it people would be forced to stop using it (because it is thought that once something is illegal and everyone is a law abiding citizen, they would follow the law and stop using it... we all know how untrue that turned out to be) and so drunk people would stop beating their mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, wives of friends, other family members, random people, drinking buddies, police into a bloody pulp because Alcohol has a very high tendency to make otherwise calm people into drunken bastards. So in 1920-1933 possessing, drinking or selling ye olde booze was illegal. And the Prohibitionists made sure everyone knew it. Those 13 years were probably one of worst times to be a cop or a law abiding citizen. Let me show you why:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1017&full=1

(I prefer you read this rather than me just retype everything I wanted to say)

TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read)

• Homicides Increased
• Jails began overflowing (the "drunk tank" was now filled with soon to be hardened criminals)
  
• Cases of cirrhosis, poisoned alcohol (for when they couldn't get the GOOD stuff -as Alcohol was illegal and all- and decided to mix it with things like formaldehyde etc.) - See what happens when you give up all control over regulation? People die.
  
• Increase in drunk people (drinking did drop off for a year (1921) but picked right back up again)

So after all the social problems they thought they were going to be fixing by outlawing the devil's drink (Alcohol) they just decided (in a nation-wide VOTE, nonetheless) that the Eighteenth Amendment (the Prohibition Law) which had been in place for 13 drunken years should be repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment.

The Government Admits Defeat on the War on Alcohol!
The Government is expected to give a conditional surrender on the historic "Booze Battlefield"
where many anti-Prohibitionists lost their lives for a sip of beer.

Drugs: 1 Government: 0
They lost the war on a drug
(Alcohol IS a drug)

Don't tell me they didn't party after words. I know they did. You know they did.

So how does this equate to the "War on Drugs" nowadays? Like I said before all those Prohibitionist era cops, specially enlisted for their Booze Busting skills needed to keep their jobs especially during the onset of the great depression 5 years earlier. So in 1932 legislation was enacted to outlaw Marijuana! (Though without the obligatory Amendment to the Constitution, because they didn't seem to willing to give people as much of a chance to overturn it)

As for the admittedly dangerous drugs out there, like Meth, Crack, Cocaine etc their dangers cannot be ignored as they are known to cause severe mental problems, physical wounds, sickness and even death. However putting these people away in prison where they still have access to their drug of choice with no support system on either the inside or the outside is NOT HOW TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM!

Treatment centers would at least benefit those with the problems, a steady job, a home to come and sleep peacefully at, a safe neighborhood, someone to talk to and no fear of going back to prison because they failed a drug test... this is so easy! Such a simple solution to the problem -- care about your fellow man and help him when he is down! Do not give him a fish, teach him how to fish and where to go to find the best fish and fish with him, and teach him how to clean it, to cook it, to store it. Do these things and people will actually be helping one another. Punishment has never ever nor will ever be the answer to failed "War on Drugs".

Grow up people and give a shit.

*http://consumerlawpage.com/article/drugs_that_kill.shtml
*http://www.naturalnews.com/000480.html
*http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/prescription-drug-kill-more-people-than.html
*http://www.cannabisconsumers.org/reports/drugwarfacts.php
*http://www.drugwarfacts.org/racepris.htm