The April 26, article by Tamara Audi, Staff Writer, for the Detroit Free
Press, titled her second article "Sun, sex and tequila": "for
high schoolers in Cancun, drinking goes until dawn and dangers of alcohol
poisoning and rape are not far behind"
"CANCUN, Mexico -- The party started at noon. The actual drinking
started earlier, around 10 a.m., with beers by the pool and in the pool. By
noon, high school boys and girls from Taylor, senior girls from St. Clair
Shores, juniors and seniors from Fenton, 17-year-olds and 18-year-olds from
Dearborn were ready for tequila, for vodka, for more Corona, more Dos Equis.
And so they went to the party at Fat Tuesday's."
In three stunning articles, the Detroit Free Press exposed the travel
agencies, resort owners, and MTV's exploitation of high school students with
Caribbean spring break "vacations."
Each spring, more than 100,000 high school and college students travel to
Cancun, Mexico for a week of wild parties, drunkenness, drugs, and sex.
Similar activities also take place in Jamaica, Aruba, and other island
retreats.
The lure is uninforced under age drinking laws.
In the first article, Detroit Free Press reporters interviewed numerous
Detroit area high school students heading for Cancun, travel agencies, and
helpless high school principals and parents. Some of the parents cried because
they couldn't stop their children. Others traveled to near by hotels so they
could pick up the pieces when their sons and daughters crashed. Some parents
thought it was part of growing up. Others said they just prayed their children
would come home safe.
Anyone who has seen the wild beach bikini beach parties filmed by MTV knows
American youth are being lured to join the fun and then help make video tape
to fill up MTV prime time which in turn attracts more students. MTV is making
millions.
The trips are booked on the Internet for 700 to 900 dollars for the week.
For an extra $40.00 or more the underage students buy drink bracelets that
allow them to consume as much alcohol as they can drink 'till they pass out.
Students seem to have little trouble raising the money.
The second article revealed photographs of high school boys and girls
sharing hotel rooms, being arrested for public sex by Mexican authorities,
doing shots, and ripping off their bathing suits while dancing.
There were numerous accounts of lewd behavior, promiscuity, public nudity,
and drunkenness. Many of the students didn't have the sense not to give the
Free Press their names and the names of their high schools.
In the third article, the Detroit Free Press, a liberal Democratic Paper,
called for public accountability by parents, schools, and government official,
and travel agencies who are all contributing to the delinquency of minors. One
has to say, "Well done, Detroit Free Press." This was public service
journalism at its best.
Every talk show in Detroit reacted to the articles, which caught the
attention of Detroit more than any other investigative report in years.
On the radio, WJR, Detroit's most listened to station, interviewed a doctor
who is expert on venereal disease on its morning show. The doctor reported the
most teens are told in high school that condoms work. However, the truth is,
they are only 85% effective in preventing pregnancy and/or diseases. The
greatest risk is disease.
The doctor explained that 60 million Americans, about 22.5% of the
country's 280 million people, have some form of venereal disease. Many of them
are incurable. He said many are relieved when they learn they don't have AIDS
but 5000 women die in America each year just from clamidia, not to mention the
other 20 diseases for which they are at risk.
The most shocking part of the story is that these children are from middle
class homes, have more money than they know what to do with, and are convinced
by godless instruction, culture, and rap lyrics that all human behavior is
governed by the laws of nature.
Reclaim News readers, my advice is don't let your high school or college
age student go on spring break until you watch one of the MTV bikini beach
parties on Cancun for yourself. Much of America resembles Babylon more than
Jerusalem.
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