Step back Bill, let a real culture warrior take the stage...
Ya’ll hear that thumping sound? That’s my soapbox hitting the sidewalk - I’m about to preach. So either walk away from the service by typing some other address into your browser or put on your church hats and get out your fans. It’s gonna be a long sermon…
Have you heard the story yet about the 14 year old boy, Romeo, who ran away from his Miami home to see the Cuban girl he met over the summer?
It seems Romeo’s father, a Mr. Alfredo Diaz is “furious” that the airlines allowed 14 year old Jr. to take to the skies since airline policy requires escorts for anyone under 15. Our lovelorn hero showed paperwork at the ticket counter that placed his age a mere 3 months shy of the chronological milestone and the airline response is that the agent saw the year and assumed Romeo was of age.
The elder Diaz has hit a brick wall with the Miami-Dade police department because he has no written legal proof that he actually has custody of the boy. Young Alfredo arrived in Havana safely after using his father’s credit card to purchase his airline tickets and is staying with his mother, the non-custodial parent.
Mr. Diaz, who lives with his girlfriend and her two sons, ages 12 and 13, (don’t get me started…) is understandably upset and desperate to see his son’s safe return.
Now here’s where that story became elevated from teenage stupidity to a moral, political and cultural issue. Mr. Alfredo Diaz Sr. is upset with the airlines? Are you kidding me? Since when is American Airlines responsible for raising your child? Are they accountable for keeping your child from behaving badly for a 2 hour flight when you had 14 years to raise him and couldn’t get it right? You following me here, Dad?
Mr. Diaz’s attitude is typical of the spoiled entitlement mentality that pervades the lazy left. The idea that someone else is responsible for the choices of your child is ludicrous. This boy was smart enough to fool you and you live with him. Hello, McFly! Making other people, businesses, the government accountable for you and yours is lazy and immature. We’re talking about shirking the burden of parenthood and projecting your anger onto a party that has no custodial responsibility for your hormone driven adolescent.
You could make a bumper sticker about this one… “My child is stupid! Somebody’s gonna pay!”
Furthermore, the fury is coming from a man who can’t even prove he’s the child’s father. The kid’s got more sense than his old man…
Lest you misunderstand me, I hereby assure you that I understand teenage angst. For me it was 15. I was every parent’s nightmare. Now ya’ll know where my parents placed the blame for my antics? Squarely on my 15 year old shoulders. There wasn’t a day that went by that year when I didn’t hear the question, “Child, what have you done?”
With the Daily Kos mindset, born of communism and disseminated by Hollywood, undermining the rugged individualism that made this country the most free, most prosperous, and most envied place on the planet, we are witnessing whole generations of people who have no idea how to take care of themselves. They live within a Matrix where they are cocooned in the blissful self-delusion of actual freedom and fed the shredded and liquified remains of our collective self-respect and adulthood.
Time for someone to pull the plug on Alfredo’s test tube. Just call me Neo…
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Further... working in the restaurant business - if I were to sell a beer to a person who flashed his ID and I recognized the year as being one in which he turned 21 and didn't take into account that his b-day hadn't yet arrived, I would still be responsible for serving a minor. I'd get a fine, a court date and the restaurant could possibly be shut down for the violation. Society does bear some responsibility for the actions of minors, in that we have to be accountable for the rules put forth. Even kids who are brought up reasonably well can do foolish things and exhibit poor judgment. But then you'd figure those parents could at least come up with their birth certificates when it came time to get them out of the pokey...
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Comment by aza spade— 2006/09/27 @ 05:42 PM — (Reply)
Sure, the airline SHOULD'VE checked more closely, but this is square on Dad's shoulder's.
That bumper sticker should read: I'M stupid and my child took advantage of everyone: Someone else that had nothing to do with it is gonna pay!
Comment by Brooke— 2006/09/28 @ 01:42 PM — (Reply)