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To: decimon

This is a result of the MSM spreading fear (because it sells) and they and feminism have done this. It is a shame.


2 posted on 09/08/2007 2:55:25 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: rlmorel
“It is a shame.”

It is to us, but not the left. They have tried for decades to make masculinity criminal and they’ve succeeded in many ways.

6 posted on 09/08/2007 3:00:04 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: rlmorel

“This is a result of the MSM spreading fear (because it sells) and they and feminism have done this. It is a shame.”

Oh..I thought it was because the great majority of sexual and physical abuse, kidnapping, and murders committed against children are committed by men.

OK...blame this on the media.


10 posted on 09/08/2007 3:06:54 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: rlmorel; All
This is a result of the MSM spreading fear (because it sells) and they and feminism have done this. It is a shame.

At first, being a man, I was offended by this. But I've thought about it for a couple days. Not all men are child molesters, but I'm willing to bet that 95% of child molesters are men. We here, myself included, are constantly calling for profiling of Arab/Muslim men on the grounds that they may be terrorists. Not all Arabs/Muslims are terrorists, but I'd be willing to bet that 95% of terrorists are Arab/Muslim men. I want them to be profiled. When they are, I want them to say "I resent this treatment, but I understand it." This is how I feel now when I read this type of article. I resent it, but I understand it.
81 posted on 09/08/2007 4:08:32 PM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive
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I can tell you how these pieces of shit can avoid children is if you put a bullet in the back of their heads. Like Dennis Miller said if they are dead they are very easy to keep an eye on.


258 posted on 09/08/2007 10:23:34 PM PDT by lndrvr1972
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To: rlmorel
Being an Eagle Scout I'd like to comment that the current policy of 4 adults shows just how out of hand this situation really is. What ever happened to self worth, morality and knowing right from wrong? What scout leaders are afraid of these days are kids who are unaware of themselves and undisciplined. Products of the reactionary society we live in. I completed my scouting career at 18 years of age, 20 years ago now, and this sort of thing was unheard of then. We were taught self-reliance and group cooperation and cohesiveness as a survival technique.

Parental involvement or un-involvment is certainly another reason for this. Our scout-masters were family friends, we knew them personally and my parents took an active involvement in knowing the troops philosophy. I get the feeling that many today just drop their kids off and hope for the best? Or am I wrong?

My son is actively involved in ice-hockey. He's 12 this next month and has been playing on the same team since he was 4. Many of the core group of kids are still intact and we've had the same trainers for the past 6 years. The parents are actively involved, go to the trainings and games. Sit together, talk together, same with the coaches, who both have kids on the team. We have parent meetings, team meetings and player meetings. Each of the last two years the coaches have chosen one out of town tournament to attend where they traveled and over-nighted as a team. 2 coaches, 1 team manager and 17 kids. Parents were allowed, but were not allowed to travel with the team, stay at the same hotel or eat with the team. Due to all of our involvement over the years we have felt confident in the kids ability to make correct decisions and the coaches to make the right decisions. As a result of this our team will be traveling with 2 coaches 11,000 miles for an international hockey tournament this winter at age 12. I'm proud of them. My son will be attending a hockey camp in the Chech Republic this next summer; alone - traveling with a friend from another hockey team.

This for me is reminiscent of my own childhood and the kinds of responsibilities that were afforded me at an early age. Why then are so many others struggling with these issues? It's why we are also loosing so many of our freedoms. People are loosing the ability to know what freedom is and it's starting at an early age.

Now, don't get me wrong, I want to protect my son and I do. I know there are evils out there and evil people. My point is simply that we as a culture need to actively cultivate the ideals in our children that will make them good people, right choosing people, ones who will make the proper choices and take the proper actions while at the same time giving them the opportunity to experience the results for themselves of these actions. Left to their own designs, without guidance or sheltered from all interaction will create a bunch of limp wristed ninny's who will be a drain on society.

277 posted on 09/08/2007 11:40:26 PM PDT by CBF
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To: rlmorel

This article is 100% true. I am so skiddish around kids because I don’t want to be labelled.


425 posted on 09/11/2007 6:47:32 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: rlmorel

And the result of this result will be a generation of kids with an even weaker masculine influence than the current generation.

Its not enough that so many kids do have a strong father figure in the home but the men in our community who would step up to be positive male role models to young men and women (yes they both need a positive male influence) will be remiss to step up for fear of being labeled strange.

Some things to me are reasonable (don’t have strange kids in your house) but some is just ridiculous such as freepers saying they have been looked at strangely for telling the cops there is a lost kid.


441 posted on 09/11/2007 12:20:39 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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