America. Land of the free and home of the brave. This is what the final line in our national anthem proclaims, is it not? Well, I can agree with the �home of the brave� statement. If you take a look at our culture, we are a group of thrill seekers. Bungee jumping, white-water rafting, skydiving, the myth of the rocket-engine car. Yes, we as Americans are brave people, and stupid no doubt. However, �Land of the free?� I think not. In our modern day America, our national anthem must sing to a different tune. �Land of the some what free� is more like it. If you examine today�s America, what do you see? Do you see our fellow citizens exercising their should-be freedoms? I sure don�t. Take a look at how our government squanders the small amount of entertainment in America for teenagers. There are laws for this and laws for that, preventing young adults from having a good time, being free. Many of these laws are so insensible and thoughtless, you pause to wonder whom the genius was that passed the law.
Let�s take for example the FCC regulations over the theater, a major source of entertainment for young adults. FCC regulations state that young adults under the age of seventeen MUST be accompanied by an adult at all times in order to attend an R-rated movie. Any violation of this law can result in a civil fine up to five thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months. I know this because I was threatened by the theater with a copy of the Florida law. The parent can�t just buy the ticket anymore, giving verbal approval of their children viewing, what the FCC claims to be, an obscene movie fit for only �adults�. What makes an adult anyway? Is it just age? I ask this because I know adults twice as old as me who have the mind-equivalency of a twelve year old. Sure they have learned the ways of the world with their age, but I know kids my age that are more knowledgeable and more compromising than most so-called �adults.� I�m getting off on a tangent here; so anyway, this law just doesn�t make any sense.
At the age of fifteen, young adults are allowed to drive one and a half ton death machines, also known as automobiles, but aren�t allowed to watch an R-rated movie with their parents� verbal consent. If a person is responsible enough to drive a car, yet isn�t considered ripe enough to view an �obscene� film, there is definitely something wrong. You can hurt another person with an automobile, but a movie, you may make someone vomit, but that�s the extent of it. The kicker to this FCC regulation is that it doesn�t apply to video stores. A fifteen year old CAN rent an R-rated movie with their parents� verbal consent. For instance, as a Blockbuster cardholder, the parent can tell Blockbuster that any R-rated movie their child chooses to view is within the child�s boundaries. Also, the video store can always call the parent at home to verify that the child is allowed to view R-rated movies. I smell the funk of idiocy in the air.
Another law that makes our freedom in America laughable is the fact that we can kill someone, yes I said kill someone, if our country orders us to do so, at the age of eighteen. However, we are not allowed to engage in libation with alcoholic beverages. Let�s analyze this for a second here (it�ll only take a second to understand where I am coming from). For one million dollars, which of the following is a far worse crime to humanity? A) Killing a fellow human being or B) Engaging in the consumption of alcohol. You have one second to get this right. If you chose B, you are obviously working for the government to oppress the people or a complete nut-job. Either way�. Anyway, A is the correct answer to this unnecessary question. Unnecessary because it shouldn�t even be an issue. The government is more willing to scar our lives with bloodshed than to allow us to drink alcohol. If your friend, well the puddle of goo that used to be your friend after the gunfire from the enemy tore through his body like a bull dog on a bunny rabbit, sat before your eyes in a war, wouldn�t you need a stiff drink? Well, sorry to tell you this pal, but your government won�t allow it. Don�t ask me why this is a fact, I�m not the genius on Capitol Hill pumping out these ideas.
If this isn�t enough to persuade you that the government is infringing on our rights, let�s analyze the invasion of privacy that the state of Mississippi has approved of in a recent motion. Although the issue is an odd one, and may sicken some to think of, the government is still infringing on the rights of its citizens by making this a law. The Mississippi legislature voted in a landslide for a law banning oral and anal sex between two people. If this isn�t a clear violation of the right to privacy, I don�t know what is. If a couple feels to partake in such activities in their home, why can�t the government accept it and go on with more important matters, like keeping rapists and murderers behind bars.
This law was clearly approved to suit the moral values of the legislature, rather than the citizens of the state. The legislature clearly sought to wipe out what they felt were indecent acts within the household. Sort of like when parents were against the whole �Elvis shaking his hips� issue and the mothers forbade their daughters to be exposed to such �filth� on the television. The legislature just couldn�t handle the thought of oral or anal sex, and as a result put them down as sex crimes. The citizens of America are growing angry at the freedoms government figures take away from them. The future of our country is the young adults, not the aged political-figureheads we see leading us towards oppression.
Although these issues may seem insignificant at the present time, they are setting a precendent for things to come. They are slowing allowing the government to take hold and control what little we have left of our own. Self-degradation is not a crime. We should be able to do as we feel, as long as we don�t harm others in the process. That was our country�s beginning mindset. However, today, our government is slowly pulling everything that we can do to express who we are and what we do to enjoy ourselves into its death-lock grip. This must stop now. If it doesn�t, angry citizens will amass with a common goal and rebellion will eventually ensue. Not over these trite matters of course, but over the principle of our rights to privacy, and such. It is here that I end my rant and hope you put some thought into what has been said. Good day.
America. Land of the free and home of the brave. This is what the final line in our national anthem proclaims, is it not? Well, I can agree with the �home of the brave� statement. If you take a look at our culture, we are a group of thrill seekers. Bungee jumping, white-water rafting, skydiving, the myth of the rocket-engine car. Yes, we as Americans are brave people, and stupid no doubt. However, �Land of the free?� I think not. In our modern day America, our national anthem must sing to a different tune. �Land of the some what free� is more like it. If you examine today�s America, what do you see? Do you see our fellow citizens exercising their should-be freedoms? I sure don�t. Take a look at how our government squanders the small amount of entertainment in America for teenagers. There are laws for this and laws for that, preventing young adults from having a good time, being free. Many of these laws are so insensible and thoughtless, you pause to wonder whom the genius was that passed the law.
Let�s take for example the FCC regulations over the theater, a major source of entertainment for young adults. FCC regulations state that young adults under the age of seventeen MUST be accompanied by an adult at all times in order to attend an R-rated movie. Any violation of this law can result in a civil fine up to five thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months. I know this because I was threatened by the theater with a copy of the Florida law. The parent can�t just buy the ticket anymore, giving verbal approval of their children viewing, what the FCC claims to be, an obscene movie fit for only �adults�. What makes an adult anyway? Is it just age? I ask this because I know adults twice as old as me who have the mind-equivalency of a twelve year old. Sure they have learned the ways of the world with their age, but I know kids my age that are more knowledgeable and more compromising than most so-called �adults.� I�m getting off on a tangent here; so anyway, this law just doesn�t make any sense.
At the age of fifteen, young adults are allowed to drive one and a half ton death machines, also known as automobiles, but aren�t allowed to watch an R-rated movie with their parents� verbal consent. If a person is responsible enough to drive a car, yet isn�t considered ripe enough to view an �obscene� film, there is definitely something wrong. You can hurt another person with an automobile, but a movie, you may make someone vomit, but that�s the extent of it. The kicker to this FCC regulation is that it doesn�t apply to video stores. A fifteen year old CAN rent an R-rated movie with their parents� verbal consent. For instance, as a Blockbuster cardholder, the parent can tell Blockbuster that any R-rated movie their child chooses to view is within the child�s boundaries. Also, the video store can always call the parent at home to verify that the child is allowed to view R-rated movies. I smell the funk of idiocy in the air.
Another law that makes our freedom in America laughable is the fact that we can kill someone, yes I said kill someone, if our country orders us to do so, at the age of eighteen. However, we are not allowed to engage in libation with alcoholic beverages. Let�s analyze this for a second here (it�ll only take a second to understand where I am coming from). For one million dollars, which of the following is a far worse crime to humanity? A) Killing a fellow human being or B) Engaging in the consumption of alcohol. You have one second to get this right. If you chose B, you are obviously working for the government to oppress the people or a complete nut-job. Either way�. Anyway, A is the correct answer to this unnecessary question. Unnecessary because it shouldn�t even be an issue. The government is more willing to scar our lives with bloodshed than to allow us to drink alcohol. If your friend, well the puddle of goo that used to be your friend after the gunfire from the enemy tore through his body like a bull dog on a bunny rabbit, sat before your eyes in a war, wouldn�t you need a stiff drink? Well, sorry to tell you this pal, but your government won�t allow it. Don�t ask me why this is a fact, I�m not the genius on Capitol Hill pumping out these ideas.
If this isn�t enough to persuade you that the government is infringing on our rights, let�s analyze the invasion of privacy that the state of Mississippi has approved of in a recent motion. Although the issue is an odd one, and may sicken some to think of, the government is still infringing on the rights of its citizens by making this a law. The Mississippi legislature voted in a landslide for a law banning oral and anal sex between two people. If this isn�t a clear violation of the right to privacy, I don�t know what is. If a couple feels to partake in such activities in their home, why can�t the government accept it and go on with more important matters, like keeping rapists and murderers behind bars.
This law was clearly approved to suit the moral values of the legislature, rather than the citizens of the state. The legislature clearly sought to wipe out what they felt were indecent acts within the household. Sort of like when parents were against the whole �Elvis shaking his hips� issue and the mothers forbade their daughters to be exposed to such �filth� on the television. The legislature just couldn�t handle the thought of oral or anal sex, and as a result put them down as sex crimes. The citizens of America are growing angry at the freedoms government figures take away from them. The future of our country is the young adults, not the aged political-figureheads we see leading us towards oppression.
Although these issues may seem insignificant at the present time, they are setting a precendent for things to come. They are slowing allowing the government to take hold and control what little we have left of our own. Self-degradation is not a crime. We should be able to do as we feel, as long as we don�t harm others in the process. That was our country�s beginning mindset. However, today, our government is slowly pulling everything that we can do to express who we are and what we do to enjoy ourselves into its death-lock grip. This must stop now. If it doesn�t, angry citizens will amass with a common goal and rebellion will eventually ensue. Not over these trite matters of course, but over the principle of our rights to privacy, and such. It is here that I end my rant and hope you put some thought into what has been said. Good day.