child abuse by politicized, power-drunk thought police

[NMRMN]

it is not just guns themselves that are bad; even the thought of guns is unacceptable. Fake guns, Lego guns, Pop Tart guns, finger guns -- "guns" that no one could ever mistake for a real gun -- are offensive. The psychological aim is clear: you will be punished for imagining guns, until the government (er, I mean your teacher) washes that evil image from your dirty mind forever. Learning how to use contraceptives in your bisexual experimentation is an integral part of the elementary school curriculum; smoking dope like President Obama is just good clean fun; but getting caught with the thought of a gun in your mind is a suspension offense, and the police may need to be called in.

The ultimate goal is not to punish such thoughts; punishment is merely the means. The real goal is to break the young soul to self-censorship and self-accusation regarding all thoughts related to personal efficacy, individual power, independence, and self-defense. A submissive citizen does not "cling" to his weapons. Therefore, future citizens must be taught that such "clinging" is a vice. Submission to the collective is the goal.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/06/ ... esque.html

[yukonjasper]

i agree. Most people overlook the larger implication and want to pick at the details of the individual events - they miss the larger - cumulative impact of thought suppression and behavior modification through opperant conditioning. Societal control via incremental dulling of the individual will through manipulation of laws and societal attitudes.

[Texastransplant]

Spot. On.

[NMRMN]

Spot. On.

Aside from the 'message' being thoroughly objectionable, the 'punishments' and tactics also deserve severe condemnation.

That one story about the 5 year old particularly bugged me. I have two sons. I was a little five-year old boy that played with 'cowboy-style' cap guns -- remember the red "cap-tape"? . It was a mistake for him to bring it to school, especially in this political climate, and with the threat of school shootings on everyone's minds. How the school administrators apparently handled it is reprehensible.

"Interrogating" him to the point he wet his pants?

sick.

[Texastransplant]

Exactly. These people have no respect for freedom of thought. The author correctly identifies them as "authoritarian" and they are anathema to a free society.

Had it been my kid, no amount of capitulation on the part of the school administration would cut it. There would be lawyers involved until every decision-making person involved in abusing my child became unemployed. Period.

[MaryB]

These cowards need to be strapped to a chair and forced to watch movies with guns all the while someone screams in their ear. Keep them there until they wet themselves...

[tazdevil]

Good thing they don't come into my neighbors and my backyards when all the kids in a 2 block radius get together for the latest episode of their "war". Right now, the 5-13 y/o side is beating the 9-18 y/o side. They use nerf guns, broken airsoft guns and the like. You get to hear "Bang bang, rat-a-tat tat and the occasional grenade impression. To date, this war lasting about 7 years, multigenerational, has resulted in 0 deaths, 0 injuries (although there was the scraped knee incident of 2008 and the coconut sounding head collision mistake of 2010), 0$ in property damage, and NO REAL AMMUNTION EVER HAS BEEN INVOLVED (although last summer the "grenades" did become live with water balloons, it was a hot day after all). Wonder how this would be taken if I had a neighbor like the administration in those schools.

[yukonjasper]

Good thing they don't come into my neighbors and my backyards when all the kids in a 2 block radius get together for the latest episode of their "war". Right now, the 5-13 y/o side is beating the 9-18 y/o side. They use nerf guns, broken airsoft guns and the like. You get to hear "Bang bang, rat-a-tat tat and the occasional grenade impression. To date, this war lasting about 7 years, multigenerational, has resulted in 0 deaths, 0 injuries (although there was the scraped knee incident of 2008 and the coconut sounding head collision mistake of 2010), 0$ in property damage, and NO REAL AMMUNTION EVER HAS BEEN INVOLVED (although last summer the "grenades" did become live with water balloons, it was a hot day after all). Wonder how this would be taken if I had a neighbor like the administration in those schools.

I'm going to alert the UN................get ready for some serious letters and sanctions buddy...........

[XDM45]

All of the above posts are good and in the right direction.

I've never been a fan of the institutional educational system where children are taught to toe the line and not question authority or the teachings. Yes, they need social skills, to learn the basics, etc, and he educational system does have some value, but much like Religion, it is taught as the one one, the only way, the true way.

Take History for example, it's certainly not complete, nor is it accurate or true. Perhaps it is mostly, perhaps parts are, but it's certainly not 100%. When the teachers expound the "facts" in the books, they do so which as much authority in their voice and teaching as any preacher does when reading from his "good book". Neither one will say to their followers / students that "We don't know. We think this is what happened and how it happened; but this is only one opinion of it. It's not complete by any means, so we encourage you to question it, take from it what you will, and seek your own answers and your own truth."

That simply wouldn't work. You can't have "people" actually think for themselves!! Their minds must be molded, their spirits broken, and they must be properly trained to believe in the American Dream, to live their life as a cog working for The Man.

As Mark Twain once said, "Never let an education get in the way of your learning."

Interesting side note.............

When the counsellers in high school speak to students in their Sophomore and Senior years about what they'll do after high school graduation, they really focus on 3 areas and ask these 3 questions in some form or another.....

1) What kind of job are you going to get?
2) What college are you going into?
3) What branch of the military are you going to join?

They NEVER ask the most important question.....

4) What kind of a business are you going to start?

The first 3 are all about working for someone else, toeing the line for someone else, whereas the last one is all about YOU.

I will say that owning and running a business isn't for everyone, just like neither is working for someone else, or a certain type of work; so my point here is really that the IDEA and the POSSIBILITY, the OPTION, isn't even OFFERED or mentioned. Then again, you don't see many people giving advice that's really in your best interest. Judges and lawyers don't really tell people about Jury Nullification either, one such example.

(Yes, some college grads do start businesses, but many do not, many do not work in their field, and many are wage slaves with unforgivable student loan debt which cannot be bankrupted, unlike other debt.)

[tazdevil]

Good thing they don't come into my neighbors and my backyards when all the kids in a 2 block radius get together for the latest episode of their "war". Right now, the 5-13 y/o side is beating the 9-18 y/o side. They use nerf guns, broken airsoft guns and the like. You get to hear "Bang bang, rat-a-tat tat and the occasional grenade impression. To date, this war lasting about 7 years, multigenerational, has resulted in 0 deaths, 0 injuries (although there was the scraped knee incident of 2008 and the coconut sounding head collision mistake of 2010), 0$ in property damage, and NO REAL AMMUNTION EVER HAS BEEN INVOLVED (although last summer the "grenades" did become live with water balloons, it was a hot day after all). Wonder how this would be taken if I had a neighbor like the administration in those schools.

I'm going to alert the UN................get ready for some serious letters and sanctions buddy...........

Snitch!