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Daniel wrote:

davic3 wrote:

I agree, if the law is that offensive and unconstitutional then instead of complaining about it here get out and do something. Organize get it on the ballot have these unjust laws repealed. If you need cash talk to Budwiser, Jack Daniel's, Miller or any of the dozens of other alcohol companies to sponsor you. Otherwise you simply sound like an whinny underage kid who is simply pissed that he can't drink and is looking for any way to justify that anger

It's a little arrogant for you to make assumptions about what I have and have not done outside this forum, no?

I made no assumptions at all. You, more than once in the tipping thread talked about how you feel the law is unconstitutional. So all I am saying if you truly feel this way there are ways to get the law changed. of course this requires money so I suggest you go to the companies that would benefit most from a law change. Just like MADD went and got organized, lobbied, voted in people who were sympathetic to their cause and got the law changed. Well you can do the same. So my question is this, If the law is so unjust will you work on getting it changed, or in 89 days are you not going to care anymore. If it's the first one I can respect your stance. If it's the second then you seem to be a whinny underage kid who is pissed off because you want to drink and can't. Well legally that is.

justine wrote:

I don't remember the law ever being different than you have to be 21 to drink.

it use to be set state by stae. I remember we could not drink here but just drove 20 minutes across the state line and could party like crazy. Then the federal gov't said if you want federal money the age must be 21

Aqua OS X wrote:

And remind me to buy bratboy a beer at macworld.

A twenty dollar convention beer, or are we talking extra curricular here?

I have a problem with it. Here we have young men and women fighting over seas and can't have a beer with their buddies at home. Unless it's on base. What does that say to them? We love you enough to protect you from drunk driving but not enough to send you to a war zone. We trust you with M-16s and 'nades but don't trust you enough to hold a beer. C'mon how smurfed up is that!?! Yeah I know this is specific to service people and not everyone is in the service. Still any 18 yo can go buy a rifle or shotgun but not a beer. Why? Because the NRA doesn't give a smurf about beer and MADD doesn't give a smurf about guns.

Daniel wrote:

Actually, they can't drink on base either.  For the most part.

Really? When did that change? Granted it's been a few years since I've spoken with enlisted.

How about you get a special pass to start drinking early if you graduate from high school with at least a 3.0....

bratboy wrote:

How about you get a special pass to start drinking early if you graduate from high school with at least a 3.0....

I don't know, man, that's pretty drunk.  Oh, wait, do you mean GPA?

Interesting. I had no idea states set their own drinking ages. It's been 21 here longer than i've been an adult.

Why is the drinking age in the US so high?

FutureDreamz wrote:

Why is the drinking age in the US so high?

Because of a neo-prohibitionist lobby known as Mothers Against Drunk Driving utilizing manipulated (and sometimes blatantly false) statistics to induce a moral panic in the nation in order to make a reactionary extortionist federal law based more on emotion and fear than logic and rationality.

I drank (and got into bars) despite the age minimums.

Daniel wrote:

FutureDreamz wrote:

Why is the drinking age in the US so high?

Because of a neo-prohibitionist lobby known as Mothers Against Drunk Driving utilizing manipulated (and sometimes blatantly false) statistics to induce a moral panic in the nation in order to make a reactionary extortionist federal law based more on emotion and fear than logic and rationality.

Have you ever read the history of cannabis?  Now there's a story of ugly manipulation of the facts!

No, he just drinks a daily six-pack.