Posted on 09/16/2004 7:48:29 AM PDT by esryle
It was not an act of hate," said Satam al Suqami, from beyond the grave. "Americans called me a terrorist. It wasn't terrorism; it was activism. It was for a cause.... The whole thing is, basically, I just wanted to get the word out there that in my opinion Americans aren't doing this world any good.")
Well, as long as it's for a cause.
Ditto
However, a baseball bat Louisville Slugger® to the knees works too.
These kids seem to admit to two acts of vandalism. They do not admit to the vandalism of the owner's two cars. You shouldn't be overly thoughtful about this until the matter is resolved. What you might have "thought" when you were a kid does not really matter in this pending criminal case.
In some ways, the boys deserve pity, as they have been "socialized" and deceived, brainwashed if you will, into a hateful, knee-jerk reactionary brand of anarchism. If they are lucky, they will grow up to see the error of their ways and become good and decent citizens. The odds are against them, given the massive indoctrination poisoning the minds of young and old.
Kids that make mistakes like this at 16 have the chance to learn from them. People that wait to make mistakes like this later in life are called 'demonstrators'. See the NYC demonstrations, WTO riots, etc etc etc.
The night of our primary election, a couple of junior high neighbor kids came to our door, asking if we had any extra W '04 stickers they could put on their book covers. We gave them some to hand out to their friends, also. They said their publik skool teacher was explaining the primary system & told them, "We have two major parties...the Republicans and the Good Guys."
Rat-bastage @$$-clowns!
Don't kids learn wonderful things in public school?
I know in S.Florida there are groups that were counting vandalizing Bush signs as "fun".
This is actually a very revealing statement - it is at the core of extremism and is one thing that makes extremist activities so very attractive to the young, who are constitutionally prone to acts of violence anyway. Many never do grow out of it.
What I'm talking about is the sense of moral absolution that devotion to a Cause brings to its adherents, a sense of release from the stricture of society's rules - "activism" in this sense represents freedom of action uninhibited by rules that the actor would be horrified not to have protecting himself or herself. In this sense most "activists" are hypocrites of the first order.
"I'm an activist - I'm special - the rules don't apply to me." It isn't just the left, but that's where you find most of it these days.
Assuming there is a bright side...
Assuming there is a bright side...
"So, is Nazism the only thing kids learn about in history class these days?"
Naa, they also learn about the interrment of Japanese-Americans during the same period. Some even study the evils of the Christian crusaders and how they devestated the poor innocent peace-loving muslims. (Do I really need a sarcasm tag here?)
What Sowell personifies is crucial to an understanding of education; one does not learn life's great lessons in a formal setting, they are learned from experience, patience and studied listening.
nice POS bump
Good question. I would add: McCarthyism.
the youths just got hired onto the kerry campaign
"As part of their punishment these kids should have wrote an essay on the Nazi party and explain what National SOCIALISM was about."
Really these kids are spouting off exactly what they have been taught in the public school system.
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