Posted on 12/14/2001 10:25:12 AM PST by William Wallace
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
IT ISN'T THE CASE that the parents of John Walker Lindh - the Marin County child of privilege turned Taliban terrorist - never drew the line with their son.
True, they didn't do so when he was 14 and his consuming passion was collecting hip-hop CDs with especially nasty lyrics.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I think if they had kicked his butt when he was 12, he'd be a normal kid in northern California--a little whacky, perhaps, but not a Talibunny. Too bad.
Johnny's interest in [c]rap "music" has been reported by other sources.
A devastating line, that.
Lib'ralism Writ Large...MUD
"He craved standards and discipline. Mom and Dad didn't offer any. The Taliban did."
That vacuum(libertarian-liberal) crap never works very long---some big pile of you know what overfills it!
These so-called parents ought to be pistol-whipped repeatedly for being such sh*t-for-brains-like-wow-don't-judge-me-man @SSES.
There's no surprise here why their son turned out the way he did. None whatsoever.
Check out what Andrew Sullivan said about the article:
"BLUE AND RED AGAIN: You may well have read the astonishing piece in the New York Times today about the divergent paths of John Walker and John Spann. The thing that stood out most starkly is the blue-red split. In fact, both are almost absurd stereotypes of each part of America. Here’s Spann’s background: “Mr. Spann grew up foursquare in a four-stoplight Alabama town. Life in Winfield revolved around family, church, duty and high school football, and Mike Spann embraced them all. He took apples to his teacher, played soldier at recess and prayed on Sunday with his family at the Church of Christ.” You couldn’t make that up. Then here’s Walker: “Encouraged by his divorcing parents to seek his own spiritual path, he found himself by rejecting teenage culture in the name of Islam. He sold off his hip- hop records, immersed himself in the Koran and started wearing a long white robe.” One is from Alabama; the other is from Marin County, California. One is a national hero, the first American casualty at the hands of the enemy. The other is the enemy. Does it get any starker than that?"
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Libertarians have loathed the Taliban long, long before it became fashionable. They're the perfect example of what we dislike. And in case you've been living under a rock for years, you'll know that the Taliban have no qualms initiating force.
All this time here, and you still haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. At least your English is getting a little better.
Four, too many people in the last 35 years have devised a delusional system whereby they look upon reality and pleas to take basic responsibility as an oppressive right-wing conspiracy. They have been supported in this belief by the media instead of having it challenged.
The Clintons have surfed this psychotic cultural and generational wave into the White House.
The attempt has been made to understand Bill and Hillary Clinton, particularly Bill, in terms of classical neurosis from abusive childhoods. But much of what is seen in the Clinton generation has made that model obsolete, although many from that generation, including psychiatrists and psychologists, desperately hold on to it to relieve themselves of any personal responsibility.
The truth is, Bill and Hillary Clinton have not suffered a bit of inconvenience for nearly 40 years¾including, for Bill, the inconvenience of military service. By his freshman year in high school Bill found he could manipulate people with showy glibness and deception, and nobody would call him on it. A good memory for acting lines would carry him through easy courses in the most prestigious schools in the country without effort or necessity to learn seriously. From there, he went almost immediately to being the boy governor of a state, and on to the presidency. It was all done with a little empty talk on a level that could be found on any high school debate team.
Hillary has led a similar life of ease and is now being pushed to take a senate seat and run for the presidency in 2004 on a platform of angrily confronting a vast right-wing conspiracy¾ which essentially consists of making accusatory and sarcastic remarks at you and me through a TV screen to the delight of angry women, spoiled angry leftists, and angry minorities. It isn't a bad life for an untalented spoiled brat who, without the world of TV and alienated politics, would be lucky to hold a job as a waitress in a truck stop.
The problem with the both Clintons is that they were long ago licensed to think and act at primitive, immature, and irrational levels of functioning. Much of this was a self-conferred licensing by a generation which has continued, and which has been the root of most of the political, economic, and social problems in this country.
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Robert L. Kocher is the author of "The American Mind in Denial." He is an engineer working in the area of solid-state physics, and has done graduate study in clinical psychology.
His email address is steiner@access.mountain.net.
from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol
The glob must be choking on this article. I can't believe they printed it.
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