Michael Phelps and public opinion
February 7, 2009 – 1:25 am by JohnThe general public’s general reaction to the photographic evidence that Michael Phelps smoked marijuana out of a bong last year (after the Olympics, of course) is very encouraging to me. Despite people’s confusion of legality and morality in so many cases and despite their turning to the State to fix everything (especially the problems it caused itself), most people think it is obvious that there is very little wrong with occasional marijuana use and that, regardless of how much evidence there is for his breaking of those stupid laws, he shouldn’t get in trouble for it and shouldn’t even be judged harshly for it. Here, they can tell the difference between what is right and what is legal. Now, I’m not saying they would react the same way if he was caught in possession of marijuana by a cop in his home or at a party or something—I don’t give the dumb masses that much credit—but this little thing is encouraging. I need to find optimism wherever I can get it these days.
One Response to “Michael Phelps and public opinion”
Michael Phelps is an American Hero. He stood tall and made America proud at the Beijing Olympics. This is how America treats its heroes, we forget all of the hard work Michael Phelps did to achieve his task, we forget the pride we felt with the each gold medal, we forget how Phelps helped America to be competitive against a Chinese when they planned on winning all of the gold’s, we forget all of those things and hang a man for smoking a glass pipe at a college party. It is time that we as a country stand up for the rights of the individual, it’s time we stand together with our neighbors and take collective control of our destinies. Write a congressman or a senator any of them; Imagine the weight of millions of emails calling for a change in policy. In this moment in America anything is possible just Google the email address of your representative and send him or her short email. It will take 10 minutes but then you have taken responsibility for change. A senator considers each email as representative of 2 thousand voters.
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