OK kids, some local governments are telling us how to dress ourselves now.

Recently, many laws have been introduced all around the country to ban the “Baggy Pant” trend. Making statements that it is lewd, or that “it has the potential to catch on with children in elementary school,” as C.T. Williams, an Atlanta councilman said in an Associated Press article.

Let me ask you this, has anyone been telling college girls that their shorts reveal too much? Have they banned the ever-popular “Pink” shorts because they are too tight and reveal too much about the female anatomy? Nope, they have not tried since the great miniskirt scare in the 60s.

Maybe in some context local governments has expressed some dislike for the shorts, but nobody has yet threatened to arrest or even fine girls for wearing such revealing clothing.

This has yet to be an issue in the federal government; however, I think it will be an issue soon enough. As the numbers of cities proposing the ban rise, I would hope that the federal government would do their part and say these actions are unconstitutional.

The first ban on baggy pants was put into effect in June in the town of Delcambre, La. The punishment for showing your underwear is anywhere from a $500 fine to six months in prison.

In that case, plumbers, the jig is up. You must now bow to local government and pull your pants up before you get down and dirty.

Not only that, but these laws are supposedly put in place to determine what path in life the “baggy pant,” culprits are heading.

That’s real smart to do to young troubled people that wear baggy pants for fashion. Send them to prison so that they can question their ability to dress themselves.

I’m sure a six-month stint in the big house will do well to rehabilitate these animals of fashion. And I’m sure that all of the rapists and murderers will leave them alone for fear of what the baggy pants wearers will do.

Supporters of the ban will say that the fashion started in prison and made it’s way into the main stream.

Yeah ok, let me just blindly believe what “they” tell me without asking for any evidence. Who would be able to prove that this one, single fashion actually started in prison? Where is the proof?

I’m sorry, but the government is just being asinine. When cities take away one of the most precious freedoms we have, the Freedom of expression, then the government is truly taking a wrong turn.

Clothing is one of the last ways kids can openly oppose their elders. No longer are kids allowed to express themselves through music, writing, and of course speaking.

So to everyone, wear your baggy jeans and wear your tight shorts, wear whatever you want. It’s your right and nobody can tell you that it is wrong. It may not be tasteful but it surely should not be crime.