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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Double Standards in American society (drinking < 21)
Message-ID: <220@persci.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 12:00:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.220
Posted: Fri Jul  5 12:00:31 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 16:39:46 EDT
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Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan)
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Summary: 

In article <300@tektools.UUCP> bobc@tektools.UUCP (Bob Crane) writes:
>I can't take it any more!  I'm old enough to go fight a war, pay
>200 dollars in taxes on my last pay check, and get the death
>sentence, but because I'm under 21, I'm not old enough to
>buy a glass of beer.
>
>Now (or this year) Reagan is trying to force ALL states to raise
>the minimum drinking age to 21 do to pressure from special interest
>groups like MADD.
>
>Its true that a major portion of drunk driving accidents come for
>23 year and younger folk but how can we put up with these types
>of double standards? 
>
>Bob Crane
>tektronix!tektools!bobc

Bob, re-read your last sentence. Your statement clearly makes it not a
double-standard (pardon the grammar).

I was a victim several years ago of a 'kid' (from a state where he could
legally drink at 18) who celebrated his 19th by going out drinking. The result?
A padded neck-brace for two months (during a heat-wave, too!) and a full year
of constant headache, ranging from mild to near-migraine intensity. I was 
lucky! If I'd not installed seatbelts the week before, and been wearing them,
I'd have given a special boost to a certain plot of daisies. He, of course,
didn't get a scratch..

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Bill Swan 	{ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill