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D.Lester Young
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0 posted 2003-01-13 09:52 AM


---Protect Us From The Protectors---

I sit her getting older
Remembering the days
Of having more individual freedoms
Being allowed to drink beer at 18
Considered adult enough to be drafted
The Vietnam War was taking us on
For we had no choice except Canada

Now I do not know what a minor is
For you have fourteen years old adults
Being tried in a court system for murder
Yet take the same person at twenty
Being caught drinking a beer
After fighting for our countries freedom
Having killed the enemy under orders
They are minor in possession

What is really an adult now?
Can someone by law be considered
A minor at thirty, forty?
Yet be an adult at ten, eight!
US Senators have age requirements
Must citizenship also

So by law now
We can ban the use of alcohol to 21
Yet cigarettes are allowed at 19
Which cause even greater harm
What other things can the protectors ban?
Protecting us from the evils of society
I am sure they can learn a lesson from Iran

We have do-gooder who know say
Let us protect our college students
For they still are minors
And do not have the right
To live for themselves
Enforcing mandatory rules
Of forced on-campus housing
And forced fees like for
For university approved eating places

In the name of education, religion or morality
People choose to dilute
The freedoms of choice
Taking the decision upon themselves
In the name of self proclaimed protectors
If we have enough of them
We will suffocate to the point
Others will always make the choices for us
Dictators who force us into submission

If you take all the rules
That are supposed to protect us
And stack them all together
A communist nation would have it easier
Yet they cry out
It is for the good of the nation
What happened to having a free choice?

So we now fight a war with minors
With allies who soldiers are adults
So as may of our boys will die
To never achieve legal manhood
I say that they at least be declared
Men and women
Before being laid to rest

Thought: If a man or woman decides to serve our country, then by federally mandated law they should assume the role of being an adult in the eyes of the law. Let them fight for us as equals and not as boys and girls.

Thought: Alcohol can have its bad effects, but to set up special rules for it, allows others to add other rules for adulthood. I think that upon completion of high school or 19 that a person again, should become an adult in the eyes of the law.

---Protect Us From The Protectors---
D.Lester Young 1/13/2003
Tuscaloosa, AL
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1 posted 2003-01-16 10:19 PM


As always, a very thought provoking read.
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2 posted 2003-01-16 10:33 PM


Goodness, this poem has an enormous amount of truth in it. I wish that our law-makers would wake up to these truths.

"Love makes the world go around"
~~with love and hugs from Ethel~~  
                  

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