[pepsionice]

A funny story about Brits and their outlawing tendency. Someone started a campaign about 12 years ago about kangaroo bumpers...the big chrome bumpers that were typically mounted on SUVs. Most folks didn't pay the $3k for silly bumpers in the first place...but the rich British dudes did. There was apparently one accident in a village where someone in a kangaroo bumper SUV accidentally hit a pedestrian, and the cop's report indicated that the driver simply couldn't see the walker because of the mounted bumper. Within six months, there was a small but capable group pushing political action on having all kangaroo bumpers removed from SUVs...deeming them a hazard to the public. The best that the cops could show...was 3 or 4 accidents where SUVs were involved in a accident and the bumper might have contributed to the incident. For almost five years, this was a major topic within liberal left political circles...outlawing the kangaroo bumpers. Eventually the whole thing died down and is rarely mentioned today. The bottom line was that this was a liberal effort to bring the SUV crowd down a notch and force a ruling that would later lead onto more SUV restrictions.

In the same fashion...this anti-spanking effort will lead onto more rules. What you will eventually see is some parent with a rowdy 10 year old....who has to call the cops to take the kid away because the kid won't listen or obey the parents. The cost will be passed onto the taxpayer who has to pay for the cops, the social home, and the criminal kid who won't obey rules. Its society who ends up with the bill one way or another.

[Lazamataz]

Tell me again why we saved Britian from the Nazi's........?

Remind me how their self rule would have differed greatly from Nazi rule......?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The cost will be passed onto the taxpayer who has to pay for the cops, the social home, and the criminal kid who won't obey rules. Its society who ends up with the bill one way or another.

The spiral into socialism. Government calls the shots and the people morph from independent beings into cogs in the wheel.

[UCANSEE2]

You are correct. If the Brits do this, juvenile crime will increase, more children will be sedated , and they will end up with a society that behaves like the DEMOCRATIC politicians of the US. They will end up with more deaths than they had before from abuse.

TOO many parents in the US read DR. SPOCK's book on child rearing, and it has almost ruined this country.

SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE CHILD.