How Things Change
Raven send this one along to me in email. How amazingly true this is -- and how wrong society is today:
++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack. 1956 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack. 2006 - School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. Ogre says: Morons. Did anyone else notice that as there were less guns in schools, there was MORE crime and MORE shootings? It's true, whether you want to admit it or not. Guns are NOT evil. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school. 1956 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled. 2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. Ogre says: Good thing we've got huge, bloated, enormous government to be able to do such things, isn't it? The reason they didn't get arrested in the past is because we didn't have the resources and we knew that there was no damn reason to jail a couple of kids. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students. 1956 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class. 2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability. Ogre says: So true. Today's government education system is about money, NOT about education. There's no way any school will throw a student out of class for ANY reason because they'd lose money. Heck, Charlotte schools have registered sex offenders in school -- and they get paid by the federal government to keep them there. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping. 1956 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman. 2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist. Ogre says: Note the result in the first case: Billy grows up normal. Spankings do not destroy a child, no matter what Dr. Spock or other liberal whiny-pants people say. Social services is the most worthless and destructive government agency in existence, second even to the scum that is the IRS. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school. 1956 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock. 2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons. Ogre says: Yup. That's true. Take an aspirin to school and lose all your rights and go to jail. Can anyone give any possible reason why? Oh, right, because liberals run the schools and they're stupid morons. I guess that's a reason. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant. 1956 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers. 2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time. Ogre says: Either that or Mary gets special treatment for all her classes, extra federal funds, extra time, free excuses for anything and then expects special treatments and free money, housing, and food from the state for life. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Pedro fails high school English. 1956: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college. 2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can't speak English. Ogre says: And if there were justice, if Pedro were an illegal alien, he'd be deported or jailed. And in the 50s, Pedro would learn English and assimilate. But today he will expect everyone else to speak his language, whatever that happens to be, and the government will punish anyone who does not. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed. 1956 - Ants die. 2006 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again. Ogre says: Hey look, it's that big, nanny-state government again. You know, if government were shrunk by, oh, 90%, they wouldn't have enough money to investigate Johnny and his firecrackers. And yes, that would be a good thing. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him. 1956 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing. 2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Ogre says: Wrong ending. Because she is female, she can have sex with Johnny and not be punished. But if she doesn't, she will be charged with assault, the school district will be sued, and the taxpayers will have to pay millions to Johnny's lawsuit-happy mom. And you know what? Every single one of these examples illustrates a total loss of freedom in America. Every one. Oh, how I yearn for freedom.
Comments
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There needs to be a balance. yes it is ok to spank, no it is NOT ok to be abusive. There is a difference between one good whack on the butt and a spanking that leaves marks and lasted way too long. We have just swung too far in the other direction. Then again, our population is a lot larger now as well.
Posted by: vw bug at January 02, 2007 05:46 PM (5wNak)
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By "larger," you do mean in circumference, right?
And I think it's pretty clear the difference between spanking and abuse. Spanking usually involves the hindquarters (and leaves no lasting marks, it just stings like the dickens) where abuse, quite often, is in various other places.
And I think it's pretty clear the difference between spanking and abuse. Spanking usually involves the hindquarters (and leaves no lasting marks, it just stings like the dickens) where abuse, quite often, is in various other places.
Posted by: Ogre at January 02, 2007 06:12 PM (EsWss)
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This post would be one funny read,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,if it weren't so true.
Posted by: Tomslick at January 03, 2007 09:09 PM (1+ARd)
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Indeed, it was almost funny -- but then you realize that it's not made up one bit.
Posted by: Ogre at January 03, 2007 09:11 PM (EsWss)
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