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In article <35560B69.44691355@wam.umd.edu>,
jason james  <jimjames@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
}OK!,
}            People who advocate the right to drink are only
} advocating thier immaturity.

No, that's what people who format their posts badly are doing.

}Better yet, when your parents enacted rules the where is most cases
}inacting arbritrary rules over a minority.......But you still had to
}follow them. 

The government is not a mother; the government is not a father.

}            Anyone who is willing to assault police for rules
} developed by the democratic process, should be drug out and shot.

That's DRAGGED out and shot, if you please.

}These men and women are doing a job that we charge them to do.
Who is we?  Certainly not me.

} Laws were developed by the majority to protect the minority.

Nope, developed by the majority to restrain the minority. 

}            Finally, food for thought. If it was a wise idea to
} change the drinking age to 18 dont you think it would have been done.

No.  I never expect legislators to do what is right, nor what is wise.
Only what is expedient.  The drinking age was reduced.  Some years
later, it was increased again in some places.  Following that, there
were two major moves to increase it everywhere.  One was the cry that
the difference in drinking ages was causing young people to drink and
drive (because they had to drive to get to where they could legally drink).
The other, which eventually won out, is that the Secretary of
Education's kid was killed by a drunk driver, so he got a Federal law
passed to blackmail states to increase the drinking age.

-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."