They Join Because They Aren’t Developed
Posted on April 10th, 2008 in General by kende || No Comment
Well, that’s what Candace Lightner (founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving) said about every member of our Armed Forces under 21 on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet this past Monday. It was the most insulting, cowardly, and despicable thing she spit out during the show… And believe me, there were quite a few candidates for that honor.
At least she’s being honest about how she feels, and what kind of government enforced infantilist America she wants us all to live in. What a surprise someone with such an advanced, well-developed brain could have no functional understanding at all of what tact means… or YouTube for that matter.
Update: Radar isfirst to the presses with this punchy but spot on write up:
Koroknay-Palicz said U.S. soldiers between the ages of 18 and 21 should have the legal right to drink a beer, which seems more than reasonable considering that they might, you know, die at any moment. (You need to unwind after your day at work?) But Lightner was disgusted that our fighting men and women would have the audacity to imbibe. She ranted that 18-year-olds haven’t “developed, and that’s exactly why the draft age is 18, because these kids are malleable.” She added: “They will follow the leader, they don’t think for themselves, and they are the last ones I want to say, ‘Here’s a gun, and here’s a beer.’ They are not adult—that’s why they’re in the military. They are not adults.”
There ya have it: Thanks for protecting us at home and abroad, ya mindless juvenile killing machines. No drinky for you!
And for blog reaction, Age of Reason has a good post:
MADD, and Lightner herself, have been making us think for years that teenagers are deliberately irresponsible with alcohol and that, if given the freedom to drink, would disregard the sensibilities imparted upon them and use the freedom recklessly. Now we are to believe that people under 21 will, in fact, do whatever they are told? In typical fashion, NYRA’s opponents are having us believe that teenagers are at once rebellious and malleable, at once recklessly independent and firmly under the thumbs of their parents and elders.