Girl Arrested for Eating Steak!
POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Thursday, December 27, 2007 13:24
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Hello,
Okay, it might have been chicken.
What am I talking about? I was incensed today when I read a story about a girl arrested for eating her lunch. Apparently, she committed the cardinal sin of bringing a knife from home to help her cut her food. No, this isn't a psycho kid using her lunch as an excuse to bring a lethal weapon to school. She was quietly eating her meal, and other kids testified that she never threatened anyone. She used a knife to cut her meal, which used to be legal.
Of course, once upon a time, High School kids drove pickup trucks to school with shotgun racks in them. Good thing we have all these rules now, so that school shootings never happen and no one gets stabbed in the playground.
In a better world, the girl's knife would have been confiscated and she would have been gently chastised. In a great world, she'd have been allowed to cut her food. In our world, she was arrested.
Thanks, Government, for making our schools safe again, and hauling this delinquent away. Here's a link to the article:
http://www.local6.com/news/14857286/detail.html
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Talk about over reacting. What an outrage.
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Zero Tolerance means Zero Respect, which is, essentially, how our culture and society treats children both socially, and legally.
They're not considered *people*, but more on the level of parental property.. like a pet, beloved property, but property all the same.
But as beings with thoughts, desires and intentions of their own beyond what we adults force on them or demand of them ?
Nope.
And that's the thing, you see, respect is a two way street, even.. no.. ESPECIALLY... with a child - you gotta give some to get some, cause if you come outright demanding it under threat of force, sure, you'll get obediance... for a while, while you're there, while you're looking... and all the while a child who despises you and all you stand for.
What you won't get, what you'll NEVER get, that way, is Respect.
That's where all those "break them to your will" morons get it all wrong - if you EARN a childs respect and keep it, then the idea of discipline is academic, because barring the mild tribulations that are the learning experience of childhood, they will self-discipline by the example you set.
I mentioned this before, when speaking of the child of someone I know... her mother could practially club her to death with a 2x4 and it would have NO effect on her behavior because by never offering any, and setting an abysmal example, her mother lost any hope of ever having that childs respect - and yet one stern, disapproving look from me, who DID earn her respect, would stop her in her tracks.
What's forgotten in the whole parent-child or society-child dynamic is that children are PEOPLE, human beings, and develop their own personhood, desires, ambitions and feelings long before that magical line that suddenly causes society to regard them as a person at last.
How we treat em, is why they hate us, and make no mistake about it, many of them do, but they've learned to tell us what we wanna hear to avoid forceful and coercive measures to hammer them into the mold what WE wish them to be.
And the further we come from that, the more we deny our own humanity, and the humanity of our kids, the more warped the form in which it finally expresses itself.
That's one thing observation of a certain school has taught me... the more "control" and the more forceful it becomes, the more fear, the more crime, the more trouble comes of it - descending into the ever spinning cycle of madness of causing problems with such policies, and then using the problems caused by them to "justify" making them more extreme thus causing more problems.... and on and on it goes, amd it's kids, who generally have no say in anything at all, which pay the price for it.
By creating an environment for those not old enough to legally resist, that is abusive to every single aspect of their humanity, we cripple them, just as we in our turn we crippled by those before us.
We're HUMAN, we're PEOPLE, and so are they, and to deny that, is to forever deny any hope of bettering ourselves through future generations.
-Frem
PS. One might also check into the work of Sven Bonnichsen, who's done some pretty intensive philosophical research of this whole dynamic.
EDIT: Had to add this, fantasic, and concise bit on how we disrespect them.
http://www.youthrights.org/final.php
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Dang Frem, you got it soo right.
That's exactly how my parents were and I'll be damned if I didn't turn out self sufficient and quote unquote "a good kid."
I wish all parents understood this.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
That's one thing observation of a certain school has taught me... the more "control" and the more forceful it becomes, the more fear, the more crime, the more trouble comes of it - descending into the ever spinning cycle of madness of causing problems with such policies, and then using the problems caused by them to "justify" making them more extreme thus causing more problems.... and on and on it goes, amd it's kids, who generally have no say in anything at all, which pay the price for it.
I can feel myself becoming more insane every time I read one of these stories. Are there any sane people left(school principle, police, teachers) to step in and tell the others that this is insanity. In my case I'm sure I will die of a brain hemorrhage reading one of these stories long before I am driven to violence.
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You ain't the only one about to pop a vessel over it Kirk - but what can you really expect when we have the "War on (some)Drugs" as such a fine example to work from, being that it employs exactly the same dynamic.
Our society is insane, kids see this, want no part of it, and WE call THEM crazy for it ?
And then call it a "distorted worldview" and try to medicate it away ?
It's a mad mad mad world, innit ?
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Who gets steak in their school lunch? I had peanut butter and jelly and was thankful for it. I only used my knife to daintily remove the crust from my bread the way God and Ron Paul intended.
H
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Hello,
If the girl is like I was, many of her school lunches are the uneaten portion of last night's dinner.
Not that it matters what she was eating or why.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Wow. Even I can't come up with an excuse for this one.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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