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In today's Sunday news it was reported that 20 year State Rep Brian Poznanski, of Nashua, and a St. Anselm College junior, was arrested Friday morning for underage drinking.
Now I could walk all over this from a partisan perspective, as he is a Dem, but that would evade the real issue here, and that is personal responsibility.
Poznanski ran for and was elected to the State Legislature to make and change law, and in my opinion he has failed that responsibility. In running for office he should have understood that his responsibility from that point on was to obey the laws that existed, work to establish new laws in the public interest, and work to change those he felt were unfair or ridiculous.
Personally I think the age 21 Liquor laws are ridiculous, and I am very tired of the failure of government to meet what I view as Constitutional consistency. If you are old enough to fight at 18, and old enough to vote, how can it be that our driving and drinking laws, as well as criminal laws, view you with the double standard you are a child. You should either be an adult for all applications and purposes, or not at all.
The idea that a 15 year old can be tried as adult for crimes, but can't drive, or vote, or anything else, and faces driving laws that say until age 21 you are a child, so we can take your license away for years on violations that those over 21 would only get a fine for, proves the inequity of the system. The age of Majority is 18 and it should apply across the board; No second class citizens.
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