These are my rights

Wow.. it's been a while. I didn't write not because I wasn't keeping this place updated, although I didn't, but mostly because I didn't have anything in my mind to write about. You know I would be lying if I had said 'I didn't have time'. One ALWAYS has time. There's always the after hours. There's always free time that I spend scratching my legs and fooling around in youtube. I always have time.

I am an ever critic of the american culture. There are many many things that I simply find retarded. I hate how one man is not old enough to drink a beer, but is old enough to kill in war. I find the common law system so fascinating, yet at times simply retarded. This is the same law system that freed OJ, that didn't regard oral sex as sex and decided that at some point, one can exercise his free spech right, only in a designated zone, far from where it really matters to speak it.

As it may be known for some of you, I work with teenagers. It's a mean to keep my mind young you could say. This is a church that has a fairly big teenager program. I work doing graphics, programming and some of the music. I am pretty involved really.
As I learn how this thing works, I realize that the main thing the leaders of these programs deal with, are not only the kids, but mainly parents.
I have learned that parents are always looking out for the dangers of this world, making sure their little babies are in a safe place, learning the right things, hanging out with people that know CPR, etcetera.
I find all of this beyond my comprehension. One of the reasons parents give to their kids when they are sniffing around their developing lives is that 'it's not that they don't trust them, they just don't trust the world'. Nice try... but in doing so, you are not trusting your kid's (sorry... teenager, soon to become adult) judgement.
I grew in a place where our parents cared for us by providing for us, trusting in us, and being there when we crashed and burned. Do we fail more? Are we more or less educated, prepared, cultured, savvy than american kids? At first I was going to answer 'you could make the case'. But, I also am convinced of this.
The premise behind this way of parenting is that humans learns mostly from their mistakes. The human that is pampered all the time, that has to spy on his friends looking for drugs, that never has the chance to take more decisions than that of going to college (sometimes not even that), will have problems figuring out life later.
We have curfues and that is a huge deal. You mess with that and you are done. You better not come drunk also. I will not judge your friends, I expect you to help them because I think you have something to share with them. I, as a parent, don't think that I shouldn't expose you to 'the pressure of your friends'. I think THEY should be exposed to YOUR pressure.

America. The land where everyone has their side of the story. Where everyone deserves everything. If there is one thing you learn really well in social dynamics and law, is that it is impossible to exist in a place where EVERYONE exercises their so called rights. That is the whole point of laws actually.
I want to know where my kids are! Well they have the right to learn on their own.
I mean... sure.. later you will thank them for being there for you... it's just that it can be so obssesive. I've heard cases of parents that ground their kids by not letting them go to church. Give me a freaking break.
America is also the land of paranoia. The land of fear. Who can blame them though? No one likes them because everyone needs them. They have nothing but good bussinesses. They own the resources of the world. That's why no one likes them.
But this isn't new. Now we see it more. There's even a TV show called 'It could happen tomorrow'. Another one 'Honey we are killing the kids'. In it, they show you how your kids will look like when they hit 40 if they keep their current life style.
All of this is antiamerican if you think about it. I am not even being harsh or very sarcastic. I am actually being really really nice with all of this only because I am tired and I'd rather get deported for a smarter 'crime'. If this is in fact a crime.

Oh yeah... I forgot.. anything can be a crime with the right circumstances. Who knows... maybe a nazi Homeland Security agent will read this. See how those words seem to work?