I was agreeing until you got to the “Lastly, for a kid to be taken in handcuffs, he must have done something really bad...”
You are assuming a basic level of competence and honesty in the principal or police that is patently absent in our society. This is a huge blind spot in traditional conservatism—you expect government agents to act within reason and law.
In our case, that hasn’t been the rule for 40+ years, and the trend is not your friend. Totalitarianism always starts with a call for law and order—and ends with death and destruction.
Vs anarchy?
I am not an absolute anarchist like some. We must have a structure which means laws and such and this understanding starts at an early age.
And yes, especially these days, kids are unruly and even violent at a very young age. Unlike before. It has gotten worse over the past 10 years.
The modern belief is that we must try to understand the root of a child’s problem which is actually a good idea I guess. However, we push it to the point where it does harm by offering excuses to a child for his or her behavior and we tell them that is okay to act out on their emotions to help them “work through it.” This a recipe for disaster since eventually they will have to conform to something — a job, a marriage, the city laws and regulations.
And another thing...
Does anyone thing Gorsuch is so stupid that he’d have “missed” all the other stuff the article “wasn’t saying”?
Nope! I think Judge Gorsuch heard EVERYTHING before totally ruling against the school/police.
Some people here don’t thing much—or enough.