Bhikku

So, I've gone to watch a few movies at the theater recently and I don't know if anyone has seen the new "above the influence" commercials they've been playing in theaters, but they're commercials drawn by children.

Now, let's think about this for a second. They are encouraging these kids to think for themselves and to live "above the influence" of drugs and alcohol, but they don't have any problem indoctrinating children who are barely old enough to draw that drugs of any kind are dangerous and should be avoided. Not only that, but that people who use drugs feel bad for using them, and only want other people to do them with so they feel better about themselves. What a crock of bullshit.

Personally, while I do not approve of the use of drugs by minors and have actually been intellectually provoked by some of the "above the influence" commercials I've seen on TV (the one where the teenager is being "influenced" in high speed by everyone around him, changing his clothes and hair and whatnot, is one of my favorites), I'm appalled that children this young are being influenced by the government to have their impressionable lil' minds aligned with the laws of the State. That's not prevention - that's programming.

If you've seen these "drawing" commercials, it's obvious that the children who made them are very young. Too young to make up their own mind one way or the other about drugs or any other serious topic. I probably wouldn't let one of these kids watch a PG-13 movie, much less listen to misinformed lackeys of the government. I'm sickened to think that they're getting to kids this young.

It's about made me decide that whenever my kids get to the age that DARE becomes part of their cirriculum, I'm going to politely (or not so politely) ask that they be allowed to take a study hall or something in its place, since this kind of snowjob goes against my political and child-rearing principles.

Above the influence? Yeah, right.

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