Ultimate Fighting for Kids: Are you Kidding?
Thursday, March 27th, 2008To answer the above question…Nope.
People, namely politicians, need to stop trying to convince me that America is the greatest nation to ever grace our rapidly disintegrating Earth. Maybe it used to be when we formed the nation and wrote the Declaration of Independence, or when we came together as a nation for all of a week after September 11th. There have been moments when we have achieved greatness as a country but please read this and tell me that this doesnt set us back as a species and specifically as a nation hundreds of years:
http://www.optimum.net/News/AP/Article?articleId=399904
I checked all the news wires to make sure women still had the right to vote and the we didnt reintroduce slavery into society. I went to the drinking fountain in my office and there is still only one and there is no designation as too which race can and can not use it. There are no crosses burning on any of the lawns surrounding me. For moment i was genuinely frightened that all of these things that we have worked so hard as a country to overcome might come back to haunt us all because of some stupid idiot parents who encourage their six year olds to beat the living s#!t out of each other.
According to the article it doesnt seem like these parents have any idea why normal people in society think that they should be thrown into the belly of an active volcano before they infect the rest of us with their mutant strain of idiocy. These are the same people who Im sure want Michael Vick to get the electric chair for participating in dog fighting while they are essentially engaged in the same kind of scenario: things that dont know any better being pitted against one another in a competition to see who is stronger which is determined by who inflicts more bodily harm on their opponent. But these people are doing it WITH THEIR KIDS!!! We call cock fighting disgusting while we fill our bellies up with chicken almost everyday of the week. So we dont mind that chickens get killed we just dont want them to be killed by other chickens for a latin american countries enjoyment. Well guess what i dont mind my six year olds getting into fights as long as its a school yard tussle instigated by two kids who are similar in age not by their parents dressing them in their gear, taping up their hands, PUTTING THEM IN A CAGE and then cheering them on as they either pummel a child or themselves get pummeled.
I just find this completely unacceptable. If you are grown up and are capable of making your own decisions then please be an Ultimate Fighter. I have no problem with Ultimate Fighting as long as its being done by adults. While this is currently banned in most states, of course not in the Midwest, after i finish this post I am writing to my congressman and asking that they sponsor a bill that makes involving children in Ultimate Fighting a felony and that any violation of this law result in capital punishment or at least having their kids taken away from them, not that they would mind because you have to really hate your kids to involve them in something like this. As county we need to remove these stains on our society by any means necessary. if that means education, if that means outrageous law enforcement, if that means putting these parents, who loath their children to the extent that they take pleasure in seeing them being beaten by other kids, in the ring with actual Ultimate Fighters so that they can see what its like to have someone kneeling on your arms rendering them immovable while you are repeatedly punched in the face and head, then lets do that. i am for that. I would pay to see that on pay per view. I would pay a thousand dollars to watch these parents be handled and broken by an adult who made their own choice to be an Ultimate Fighter.
People need to start using their brains for something other than figuring out how best to gratify their own, to steal a line from the Mighty Bill Hicks, fevered egos. This is all a part of of the grand deterioration of our collective intelligence and ability for reason. For this i say thank you to the following people: Thanks George Bush, thanks religious fundamentalists, thanks people who watch the Hills and Flavor of Love and think that anything Justin Timberlake has ever done in anyway compares to anything that Michael Jackson has done. You people are poisoning civilization, to quote the aforementioned Michael Jackson, “…for you and for me and the entire human race.”
Thats from Free Willy!
