Ad Terras Per Aspera

Well, it was bound to happen: someone goes to jail for trying to spend legal tender. I’ve been trying to think of something witty to say about this for the last twelve hours, but this is so unbelievably retarded that my mind has just been flooded with Stupid Rays^TM to prevent any witty remarks from surfacing.

In this post-9/11 world, the terrorists have already won: terrorist, thy name is high school drop out working at Best Buy! That’s another thing I don’t get. How can you blame the actions of a (hopefully soon to be fired) high school dropout working the cash register on the actions of a group of terrorists? Blowing up the World Trade Center, sure. Blowing up the Pentagon, sure. Blowing up soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, sure. Having someone arrested for trying to spend legal tender, only if Satan is forecasting flurries and a chance of ice-coated brimstone.

If anything, high school dropouts are what’s wrong with this country, not a few empty tents and camels in the middle of a desert. We should wage a war on stupidity, and not wage a war on terrorism. We should drop the hammer on the Department of Education, not drop the hammer on a couple of third world countries. We should make school books, not war.

Teachers and parents alike should be trying to further the education of children, not give them a gun and ship them off to a foreign country to fight. The United States used to be one of the most well educated and well respected countries in the world, and now our educational standards have dropped to what some third world countries have.

And because of that, we’ve put a poor innocent person in jail because he tried to pay using legal tender. I wonder if its too late to move to Canada…