Posted on 02/23/2025 10:50:30 AM PST by Morgana
The shocking moment a mass brawl involving men, women and children erupted at Atlanta Airport has been caught on camera.
Viral video shows a dozen people throwing hands during chaotic scenes at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the Georgia capital on Wednesday.
The passengers can be seen punching and kicking each other close to what appeared to be the Spirit Airlines departure gates at one of the airport terminals.
Several people stood on the chairs to launch an attack from above, while others grappled on the ground below.
It's unclear what caused the fight or how it was resolved. Atlanta Police Department told DailyMail.com they sent cops to the scene but the crowd had dispersed by the time they arrived.
Several bystanders caught the brawl on cellphone camera from different angles, and shared videos online which attracted more than half a million views.
One angle shows the carnage from afar, with several people standing to watch the drama unfold.
Youngsters can be heard shouting at each other as they hit out. Most were wearing hoodies and tracksuits, and several were wearing face coverings.
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“Look at the bloodshed in England alone.”
I’m familiar. My ancestor was the last martyr to be burned at the stake in England in 1612 for religious reasons.
Nothing about separation of church and state in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. And, as I said, religion wasn’t taught in school but it allowed students to go to their respective churches if their parents wanted them to.
There is NOT a “state church”; that is in the founding documents.
That is so incredibly lame!! They are in school for a relatively short time each day. There is plenty of time to do those things all on their own. My family had a Devotional Time every day after supper, even on Sundays.
Not matter what you say, taking "mockery time" out of public schools is not the cause of our society's decay.
I experienced this FIRST HAND at Koffman Middle School then at Hopkinsville High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in the time period centered around 1962 and 1963. I have no reason to lie about that.
The instant any sort of religion is taught in a government funded and operated school, that is EXACTLY what you have, a State Church. If a Southern Baptist gives a Lutheran a Biblical lecture in a captive situation, you have religious persecution in a State school.
I didn't like it. I won't permit it! This IS an issue over which I will take up arms.
Your reason to lie is to advance your argument.
There’s no way students did that kind of thing in the early sixties.
This is classic deductive logic.
Reading the Bible was normal and common practice in public schools until it was banned around 1962. From then to now, it would have taken years of desensitization for students to be willing to openly mock. In the most liberal schools it would not be actively mocked any more than by fringe, sparsely distributed individuals.
There are several behavioral explanations for this. The most important is that people who mock Christians are always, to a person, sniveling cowards. So they don’t bully unless they’re sure they can get away with it. The leftist school employees sympathetic to the mockers are also severe cowards, so they will only do things they think won’t make public scrutiny.
All moral principles, which encompass all decisions regarding what’s right and what’s wrong, are derived solely from God’s Ten Commandments.
There is no other standard from which morals originate.
“The instant any sort of religion is taught in a government funded and operated school, that is EXACTLY what you have, a State Church.”
AS I SAID, religion wasn’t taught IN the school. Kids went to their separate churches FROM SCHOOL for religious teaching.
I am not lying. Shame on you for that accusation. Did all of the students in the room behave that way? No. It was usually between two and four of them. Did the other students laugh at their antics? Yes. I have given you legitimate reasons why prayer and Bible study should not be a part of PUBLIC schools. If you want that sort of thing, a parochial school is the proper place.
Reading the Bible was normal and common practice in public schools until it was banned around 1962
It was banned because it was ruled to be Unconstitutional, which is the the correct ruling. Students in a school with mandatory attendance are "captive" to the classroom. Christian services with Muslin, Buddhist, Shinto, Native American, or people of any other faith constitutes a clear case of a State religion.
That does not make any difference! The First Amendment is very clear on this point.
The more I think about this, the worse it seems. You can't address the issue convincingly, so you attack me personally. How very leftist of you.
As I said.
I was qualifying your statement, not you.
You’re not allowed to make up your own First Amendment.
“I was terribly offended...I was offended...I was unhappy to be forcefully participating”
You seem to belong to the culture of being offended, if that tells us anything.
Stop pretending the right to pray individually in schools is the same as teachers teaching prayer. Doesn’t take a genius to understand the difference.
The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, did not provide any avenue for the U.S. Supreme Court to “rule” against reading the Christian Bible anywhere.
The United States of America was a Christian nation from the start; but, because of different Christian religion followings of Jesus Christ, the Founding Fathers - developers of the First Amendment - agreed that none of the different Christian religion followings of Jesus Christ, would be the official religion and/or official Church of the United States of America.
“The separation of Church and State” is a misnomer. The many religious symbols that mark many thousands of acres of federal government military cemetaries and reservations are testimony to, “under God.”
The U.S. Supreme Court would be shown the door, by “ruling” that all the religious symbols be removed from those grounds.
The U.S. Supreme Court would be shown the door, by “ruling” that Christian services and reading from the Bible are prohibited on those grounds.
By the way, a PUBLIC SCHOOL is neither The Congress nor The Federal Government.
I never stopped praying in school. Did you? If so, you were mistaken regarding their level of control over you. They also would be mistaken to assume they could stop individuals from praying.
The ruling merely prohibited school-led prayer and Bible study, as per the First Amendment.
This isn't an issue of separation. This is and issue of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". When Christian prayers are scheduled inside school time along with a Devotional, the school as a government entity, is promoting a specific religion. There are students of diverse Faiths in a public school. A government entity is not allowed to promote one over the other.
What would each of you do if your children were required to face Mecca and pray while in school? The "free exercise thereof" clause should enable a Muslim teacher to do just that during that devotional time.
It strikes me as unusual that you very people complain about the quality of education on one hand, and then cry out for yet another time period in the school that is unrelated to its proper subject matter. I think you are abdicating your Evangelism responsibilities to the schools with which you have already voiced dissatisfaction.
Religious instruction belongs in the home and in the church of choice. The "of choice" that is denied when conducted in a school. Perhaps you feel that a public school can do a better job than you in raising your children.
It is PUBLIC, required to provide EQUAL ACCESS to all.
Were you really that bad at parenting that you needed a school to help you teach your child to pray?
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