All/Some

Why should all 20 year olds lose the right to drink because some 20 year olds choose to drink unsafely???

21 Drinking Age Isn't Actually Keeping Us Safer

The harsh policy of branding 18-20 year-olds as criminals for simply consuming alcohol is not making us any safer-on the roads, or elsewhere. Here's why:

1. It is unrealistic to believe that people who can't be deterred by laws against drunk driving will, however,  listen to a law saying they must be 21 to drink.

2. Likewise, students who listen to laws against underage drinking are probably not the type who would drive drunk in the first place.

3. The threat of a permanent criminal record discourages students from seeking help for themselves or friends who have become dangerously intoxicated.

4. Although approximately only 25% of college undergrads can legally drink, it's no secret that alcohol dominates the social scene at many campuses. Prohibition simply pushes drinking "underground" and makes it impossible for older adults to monitor things.

5. The 21 drinking age inspires overly zealous birthday celebrations which often end tragically. If the drinking age was 18, consuming alcohol would just be another thing on the long list of newly granted rights. Instead, drinking is made the SOLE activity of many 21st birthday celebrations.

6. The threat of being picked up by cops while walking home or waiting for the bus makes students more likely to get into a car-often a car which is being driven by a drunk driver.

7. Prohibiting young adults from consuming a drop of alcohol, and then turning them loose when they hit 21 makes no sense. Many 21 year olds go out and buy a bottle of vodka on their 21st birthdays and end up dead because they never had any guidance about how to drink safely, or how much is too much.

Decriminalize College Drinking! & An Interesting Article

Reasons consumption of alcohol among those age 18-20 should not be considered a crime:

1. It has already been decriminalized in D.C. as well as Maryland, and police are no longer allowed to make arrests for it. Why should kids who get busted elsewhere for doing the exact same thing be taken to jail and officially labeled as criminals?

2. The reason for the drinking is that the law does not consider individuals under 21 to be responsible enough to make decisions about alcohol, and therefore holding them fully criminally responsible is paradoxical. Why should kids in other states go to jail & suffer severe consequences including having their photos published right next to rapists and murderers? 

3. Consumption of alcohol by college students does not directly harm or impose upon anyone else. Offenses such as DUI directly impose on others by making the roads a dangerous environment, but not the act of simply drinking. There is no reason for policemen to prowl through college dorms searching for students to arrest who have walked back home responsibly and are clearly not endangering anyone.

I will add more reasons to this list at a later time. If you have reasons to add, please post or send them!

Now here is an insightful article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/22/alcohol.education
I agree with the author. It is time for lawmakers to face REALITY instead of indulging in a fantasy-like belief that drinking among college juniors, sophomores, and freshman can be prevented.

People Over 21 Drive Drunk Too: Why Drinking Age is Unjust

I believe that every American who chooses to drive a car while under the influence of alcohol should be punished. Currently, the same drunk driving penalties and consequences apply to all drivers age 18 and older equally.

So why then, should 18, 19, and 20 year olds not be trusted to drink at all? Granted SOME people age 18-20 choose to drive drunk. But PLENTY of people also drive drunk who are of legal drinking age!!

Treating a certain segment of the population of legal adults as inferior & curtailing their rights is unjust and discriminatory.

The following things would also probably reduce drunk driving/crashes:

• Preventing all black people from drinking
• Preventing all red-haired people from drinking
• Raise the drinking age to 30
• Raise the drinking age to 65

BUT ACTUALLY TAKING THESE MEASURES WOULD BE RIDICULOUS & WOULD NEVER BE TOLERATED. MY POINT IS THAT SOME 18 YEAR OLDS DRINK SAFELY AND SOME DON'T. SOME 40 YEAR OLDS DRINK UNSAFELY. SO WHY SHOULD PEOPLE AGE 18-20 BE JAILED & HAVE THEIR LIVES RUINED WHEN THEY ARE CAUGHT DRINKING BUT ARE NOT ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE OR BEING OTHERWISE UNSAFE.

Charged as Adult for "Underage" Drinking. How is this fair??

In America, you are considered an adult for ALL intents and purposes other than consuming alcohol. That's it. When you are caught after having consumed alcohol under the age of 21, you are charged with MIP which stands for "minor in possession." So you are a "minor" if you decide to drink, but an adult if you get caught?? This makes NO sense.

Organizations like MADD that support the current drinking age often claim that "young people's brains and decision-making skills do not fully develop until the age of 21." So then WHY should someone who uses his supposedly undeveloped brain to make the decision to drink be prosecuted as an adult, be taken to adult jail, and then receive a PERMANENT ADULT CRIMINAL RECORD???

The "crime" of underage drinking should be treated the same way as other crimes committed by minors and removed from a person's record when he reaches the age of adulthood. This is why America should stop considering 18 year olds adults. America should EITHER RAISE THE AGE OF ADULTHOOD TO 21, OR LOWER THE DRINKING AGE TO 18! It's as simple as that!!

If You Don't Like.........

If you don't like gay marriage......... don't marry a gay person.

If you don't like college students drinking.........don't drink in college.

If you don't like marijuana.........don't smoke it.

If you don't like Cuba's (or another country's) government...........don't vacation there.

If you don't like drugs...............don't do them.

IT REALLY IS THIS SIMPLE. THERE IS NO REASON FOR THE US GOVERNMENT TO OPPRESS, HARASS, OR IMPRISON ITS CITIZENS FOR THESE THINGS.

My Ideals of Freedom

This is my personal belief when it comes to freedom: 

"I would say that people have the right to live their lives in any way they choose so long as they don’t violate the equal rights of others".

I see no reason why anyone should disagree with this. Those people who do disagree with this statement disagree for selfish reasons, because they stand to profit from restricting other people's freedoms and rights. 

Just take marijuana for example. In the U.S. possession or cultivation of any amount of marijuana is totally illegal, even on your own property or inside your own house. Please tell me why anyone else would care if someone sits inside their own house alone smoking marijuana, bothering no one. They care because of PROFITS! When you get busted and have to go to court and pay huge amounts of fines, court costs, drug classes, rehab, or whatever else they order you to do, the greedy government makes money. Not to mention if people could smoke weed the pharmaceutical industry would lose profits. Also, many prisons these days are privately operated for profit, so they want you to end up there. 

The above is just one example of how greedy members of society profit from interfering with other people's rights. There are many more cases of this. I would really love if one of you people out there who support laws restricting people's personal choices such as using a plant in their own home feel that you should have that right???

Introduction

The name of my blog is "Demand Freedom" because that is what the citizens of America need to do. I  will be posting several stories and articles which demonstrate the dire circumstances of our country today. These posts will show you how America is quickly becoming a tyrannical police state and how our liberties and freedoms for which our forefathers fought so hard are being taken away one by one. Our freedom is in danger, and we are the only ones who can save it. We need to step up, take responsibility, and stop enabling our tyrannical government which tramples over our most basic human rights.