I think we can all assume, if nothing else, that willfully injuring, maiming or killing someone is wrong, no matter your reasons. In a "natural selection" population control way, yes, it helps curb the rapid growth of the human population by having members of the same species kill one another over ideas, beliefs, or control on anything someone can come up with. However, since we are "human beings" we are also supposed to be "civilized" and in a "civilized" society people do not, no should not go around killing one another.
Based on my 20 odd years of life experience, which is not much since the human life span can be up to 120 years max, I have discovered that we are mighty good fakers. Yes, that's it! We faked it. We ALL fake it. We fake being civilized. We pretend to be above our nature, our nature as human beings, nay as animals. As animals who eat both plants and fellow animals. We are omnivores, a small population of animals that eat both plants and animals, so, in other words, we eat everything that is edible for us humans and use everything, and all these things that we eat provide their own nutritional value and further help us develop into "advanced" creatures. I don't see bears building condos out in Colorado. I don't see dolphins building an ocean resort. I don't see Cows building a cow ranch where they raise humans. I don't see any of that. I see humans building condos in Colorado, humans building ocean resorts...though not "in" the ocean, I see humans building a ranch and raising cows for either their milk, which we drink, or their meat that we selfishly and naturally consume.
We are not at fault here, we are bound to our nature, you are, I am, everyone and everything is bound to its nature and we cannot defeat it, hard as we try. Otherwise we won't be human anymore. We do still want to be human, don't we?
What are Rights?
Based on my uneducated definition..."rights" are a concept, created and enforced by humans that no one is supposed to violate. Meaning "I have the right to be alive," "I have the right to not be abused" etc. Rights are something that are supposed to be set in stone, that are supposed to..well... allow people to be people and do what they like..so long as their rights don't intrude on the rights of others- and that is a fallacy of an argument. As I said before if your rights are something that allows you to be you and you do not impose yourself on others or harm them or kill them... whose rights have been limited? Since maiming and killing is wrong... it stands to reason that no one has the right to do that.. (not even the government) whose rights have been violated? No one's.
Therefore no one is harmed so no one's rights have been violated.
Here's an example:
I am a highly religious person and I want everyone to be saved, because I care so much for their souls, so very much.
However, non-religious people or other religious people DO NOT want to be saved (by me, the religious person) and when I try and tell them if they do not convert their souls will burn forever in hellfire and you do not want to hear that. I have the first amendment protecting my free speech as do you have it protecting yours therefore you have every right to tell me to go away and I have every right to say what I want to say, however if you do not want to hear it you can move away and I cannot pester you (because that's just rude) and/or you can tell me to go away if I have invaded your personal space.
See? Everybody wins. No one's first amendments have been violated, you can disagree with what I have to say and you can choose not to listen and go away or tell me to go away if I'm invading your space (if you were there before me).
Make sense? Make sense!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Age Discrimination
Please read all the definitions.
Age and then Discrimination are defined below.
age
–noun
1.the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
2.a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity: the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years.
3.the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything: He was over age for military duty.
4.one of the periods or stages of human life: a person of middle age.
5.advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age.
6.a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch: the age of Pericles; the Stone Age; the age of electronic communications.
7.the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life: He was the most famous architect of the age.
8.a generation or a series of generations: ages yet unborn.
9.a great length of time: I haven't seen you for an age. He's been gone for ages.
10.the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species: The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years.
11.Psychology. the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, esp. a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same chronological age.
12.Geology. a.a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature: the Ice Age. b.a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed.
13.any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
14.Cards. a.Poker. the first player at the dealer's left. Compare edge (def. 10a). b.eldest hand.
—Idiom
20.of age, Law.
a.being any of several ages, usually 21 or 18, at which certain legal rights, as voting or marriage, are acquired. b.being old enough for full legal rights and responsibilities.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/age)
dis·crim·i·na·tion
–noun
1.an act or instance of discriminating.
2.treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
3.the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment: She chose the colors with great discrimination.
4.Archaic. something that serves to differentiate.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/discrimination)
The most important and pertinent definitions for these two words has been provided.
When someone has not yet reached an "age of maturity" they are not, by the state, and by law to be considered mature enough to make their own decisions. They are not mature enough to have any control over their lives, even over their own health. They must get permission for everything.
They are under the state and their parents complete control.
Who would give a job to 12 year old? Oh and pay them too. The law says you don't have to. Actually it says you can't. You CAN employ them however, you just can't pay them for their hard work (read: school..who would've thought?)
Who would rent an apartment to a 14 year old? Again, if you're under 18 they probably won't rent to you...because you're not mature enough to sign a lease.
Who would give a 15 year old birth control or condoms or protection in general from STDs, because a 15 year old shouldn't be having sex anyways, they either won't give them to you, or call your parents so they can give THEIR consent...which of course they probably won't. Anyone under 18 isn't allowed to have sex, so why should they give you condoms or birth control? If they did wouldn't that automatically mean they're promoting sex between minors? That they're encouraging it? Oh no, we can't have that. They're too young to have sex!
Age discrimination is not only only wrong it is illegal. Oh no wait that's what those "DON'T BUY TOBACCO FOR MINORS" ads you see in your local wal-mart. While I do not like cigarettes (as they have a high probability of KILLING you...the warning label says so! It's right on the box!) I, as I have said before, don't think we should "restrict" access to minors to any product just because we don't want them to do something...with their body nonetheless!
Again, cigarettes DO kill. However, punishing a group of people who are under some arbitrary age is discrimination! Scroll up and reread the definition if you're still not convinced that minors are people too. Minors are people too! Again, minors are people too!
I shan't continue because this subject matter is making me angrier as I think about it.
Also, yelling through the internet is NOT a sign of immaturity...it's a sign of being enraged as I should be.
Age and then Discrimination are defined below.
age
–noun
1.the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
2.a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity: the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years.
3.the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything: He was over age for military duty.
4.one of the periods or stages of human life: a person of middle age.
5.advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age.
6.a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch: the age of Pericles; the Stone Age; the age of electronic communications.
7.the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life: He was the most famous architect of the age.
8.a generation or a series of generations: ages yet unborn.
9.a great length of time: I haven't seen you for an age. He's been gone for ages.
10.the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species: The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years.
11.Psychology. the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, esp. a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same chronological age.
12.Geology. a.a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature: the Ice Age. b.a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed.
13.any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
14.Cards. a.Poker. the first player at the dealer's left. Compare edge (def. 10a). b.eldest hand.
—Idiom
20.of age, Law.
a.being any of several ages, usually 21 or 18, at which certain legal rights, as voting or marriage, are acquired. b.being old enough for full legal rights and responsibilities.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/age)
dis·crim·i·na·tion
–noun
1.an act or instance of discriminating.
2.treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
3.the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment: She chose the colors with great discrimination.
4.Archaic. something that serves to differentiate.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/discrimination)
The most important and pertinent definitions for these two words has been provided.
When someone has not yet reached an "age of maturity" they are not, by the state, and by law to be considered mature enough to make their own decisions. They are not mature enough to have any control over their lives, even over their own health. They must get permission for everything.
They are under the state and their parents complete control.
Who would give a job to 12 year old? Oh and pay them too. The law says you don't have to. Actually it says you can't. You CAN employ them however, you just can't pay them for their hard work (read: school..who would've thought?)
Who would rent an apartment to a 14 year old? Again, if you're under 18 they probably won't rent to you...because you're not mature enough to sign a lease.
Who would give a 15 year old birth control or condoms or protection in general from STDs, because a 15 year old shouldn't be having sex anyways, they either won't give them to you, or call your parents so they can give THEIR consent...which of course they probably won't. Anyone under 18 isn't allowed to have sex, so why should they give you condoms or birth control? If they did wouldn't that automatically mean they're promoting sex between minors? That they're encouraging it? Oh no, we can't have that. They're too young to have sex!
Age discrimination is not only only wrong it is illegal. Oh no wait that's what those "DON'T BUY TOBACCO FOR MINORS" ads you see in your local wal-mart. While I do not like cigarettes (as they have a high probability of KILLING you...the warning label says so! It's right on the box!) I, as I have said before, don't think we should "restrict" access to minors to any product just because we don't want them to do something...with their body nonetheless!
Again, cigarettes DO kill. However, punishing a group of people who are under some arbitrary age is discrimination! Scroll up and reread the definition if you're still not convinced that minors are people too. Minors are people too! Again, minors are people too!
I shan't continue because this subject matter is making me angrier as I think about it.
Also, yelling through the internet is NOT a sign of immaturity...it's a sign of being enraged as I should be.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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:
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
4. an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
(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!!
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.
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
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/statutory%20rape) –noun U.S. Law.
| sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of consent, which age varies in different states. |
[Origin: 1930–35]
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. |
| 5. | Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force. |
| 6. | to force to have sexual intercourse. |
| 7. | to plunder (a place); despoil. |
| 8. | to seize, take, or carry off by force. |
| 9. | to commit 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.
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.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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.
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.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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?
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!
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!
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!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Liberal Incarnate: A Voice of Freedom -- Drugs Part 2
The [True] History of Drugs
continued...
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:
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: ****
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
- 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 :(
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: ****
- Valium
- Xanax
- Alcohol
- Vicodin
- Oxycontin
- Tobacco
- Ritalin
- Ephedra
- Ibuprofen
- 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)
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
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)
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)
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
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