OK, I grew up in NYC. I was out side playing out fielders in 77 (lob fly balls back and forth across the street) when the Yanks beat the snot out of the Dodgers. It was dark. We had about 2 hours after sunset to be in. We had a one to two block radius that we could go. I was 5. Really.

By the time we were 10 - 12 we were riding the subway and playing in the park WAY after dark. Our parents were good. They knew where we were going and how we were getting home. We would roll in a pack. The spots that we went to were visible and in public view. This conditioned us. As we got older and the whole city became our world we were way beyond ready to make new friends and experience..well...more!

Listen people, you really have to wake up. This curfew is not being implemented because the good mayor wants to make sure that the children are safe or to make sure they aren't committing crimes. The government couldn't care less about us or our children. Don't you know that we adults are next? The streets of Chicago and the streets of every other major city in the U.S. have intentionally been let to get out of control so that new laws such as this could be implemented to take our freedoms away bit by bit, piece by piece. Do you all really think that it's going to stop at our children? Seriously? I grew up in a home with a single mom with five children. We had to be in front of the house when the street lights came on. Granted, during the summer time my mom would allow us to stay out and play well into the night, but in front of the house. She allowed my brother to stay out later because he was a boy. That was my mother's rule and for the most part we abided by it. Get it -- my mother's rule, not the government's. When we didn't do what my mother said, we had to suffer the consequences from my mother and no one else, which is the way it is supposed to be. Everybody is not raised the same way and no one should impose their beliefs on others, including and especially not the government. Look what they've done and are doing to us! They have imploded the economy intentionally, resulting in thousands being homeless. They won't assist in that problem though will they?

What most people do not understand is that we are all sovereign and do not have to abide by random rules and statutes that the government writes in for us. I think we have forgotten that the government is paid by US (by jacking our salaries illegally) to do for US what WE THE PEOPLE want, not the other way around. If we allow them to continue to dictate to us then it is a dictatorship. You have to see the big picture here. Slowly the government has been taking away our rights as parents and very soon our rights altogether. Remember, they stopped us from spanking our children so that they could get out of control then they built more prisons for them. They can't do this to us unless we allow it. Personally, I'm not going to allow it. I have one son who is 16 years old. I give him more freedom to stay our later because I choose to. I'm not going to handicap my child mentally by keeping him in fear of life and people and the dark because somebody tells me to. I know where he is during the daytime and during the night and that's good enough for me because that's all that is important to me.

Wake up people!! If we let this start happening, it's going to spread everywhere. It's just the tip of the iceberg. Martial law is coming for the adults. Will you fight back then?