Youth of Today

I was reading the email that i used as my previous post. It brought up some thought of somethings that i have thought about over the years, about the youth of today.

Back when i was in high school in Lancaster, SC, the teen thing to do was to cruise. The teens used to cruise a 4 block area of downtown Lancaster. This happened every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. Then on Sunday afternoons we would go to the neighboring town Kershaw to cruise. This was a teenage right of passage. This happened every weekend. We would cruise, park and hang out, all load into one car, cruise around more. Now every once in a while an occasional fight would breakout, but that is normal ( i mean it is another thing that happens with teens, i mean it happens with adults. It is just like a pack of lions in the nature world, they fight to gain or maintain everyones status. Think about it, if two teen boys are fighting over a girl, why is that, to show the dominance of one over the other. Any way i digress).

Then i moved to Spartanburg, SC, and guess what? Same thing. Kids would cruise around the mall area in Spartanburg on Friday and Saturday night. Then they would cruise Chesnee on Sunday aftenoon and then Gaffney on Sunday evening.

Now as a teen this was great, you had a time set aside for your friends and you would meet new ones. But over the last 10 years or so, there has been a major push by the powers that be to shut down this practice. What the reason is? Who knows. Only the ALL KNOWING Government knows (if you want to call them that). Whatever the reason, all the things that teens like is being taken away from them.

Teens rights have been eroded just like adults, only teens rights all revolve fun things (according to them). Now today they can not skateboard, skate, cruise, or do anything else FUN to them. Now some citizens have been smart and started skate parks to give kids an out. But that only helps the kids that are into the skating scene. What about the kids who don't like to skate? What about the kids who like to cruise?

I will tell you, i see the writing on the wall. When you take everything from a person (or group of people) you will increase the criminal element of the person/people. If you need proof, just look at past civilizations and how they failed and new civilizations were started (our current America is one).

Watch the news everyday and more than not, you will see an increase of youth being arrested for crimes, and if you look closely you will notice that the crime increases coincide with the decrease of outlets that the teens have to channel their energy.

Now we as an adult population need to step up to the plate and demand the rights of our younger population back. Why are we letting these things be taken away from our youth by people in power who cruised just like the rest of us, when they were kids?

Its amazing how its ok when the adults do things when they were young, but deny the kids of today the same thing.

Stand Up For Your Kids! Lets make a difference for the future of this country.

VIVA LIBERTY!