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PETER HITCHENS: Our selfish dismantling of marriage has left children in a lonely Dickensian hell
DailyMail.com ^ | 5/28/2022 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 05/29/2022 4:29:22 AM PDT by Nextrush

By killing lifelong marriage we are killing children. Liberal Britain cannot see this, but until somebody does, the tragedies will continue...

Soon after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas the mighty New York Times found a young woman called Jocelyn Rodriguez who had worked with the killer at Wendy's hamburger restaurant. She said the murderer had rowed with his mother and grandmother because they would not let him smoke marijuana. Just 24 hours laterm the detail was cut out of the online report, without explanation. I have tried to get in touch with the New York times to find out why, but have received no reply. I have long suspected that mind-altering drugs are a possible factor in crazed mass killings. Of course this idea is unwelcome to a modern establishment full of drug-takers, who applauded legalisation of marijuana. But would they actually suppress evidence that it may be the case? Surely not...

We must now have a national amnesty for all those fined under the ridiculous and futile Covid laws.

After the farcical pursuit of politicians and civil servants for breaking laws they should never have imposed on others, there is no case at all for upholding the (often very harsh) fines levelled on gentle, kindly people who were prosecuted by over-zealous police for doing harmless things.

One thing that fills me with rage is that of a South London pensioner, in poor health, who went to his allotment to get vegetables because he does not eat meat. He was caught by some uniformed bullies simply talking to others at his allotment, found 'guilty' by some cruel dimwit and fined &100, a heavy, possibly fatal blow for someone so poor and unwell...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: covid; uvalde
Peter Hitchens with deeper truths in his weekend column.

Too deep for a lot of folks to pick up.

1 posted on 05/29/2022 4:29:22 AM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown.


2 posted on 05/29/2022 4:30:32 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: Nextrush

None of this is really rocket science. It used to be called common sense and the truth of it is all around us. Fatherless children have difficulties. Divorce hurts 99.9% of everyone involved. Altering your mind with drugs is bad. Bullies are bad, and most of the bullies these days are the Do-Gooders.

We could change paths and go down a better road — but if we try at this point, the Do-Gooders will stomp us. They are like cops in the parking lot waiting for the killer in the school to finish his work. We’re supposed to think that the government is really trying to help. But, are they?


3 posted on 05/29/2022 4:36:44 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Dan and Marilyn Quayle were right about a lot of things.

They were unfairly smeared too.


4 posted on 05/29/2022 4:48:08 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s also called Biblical wisdom (God’s wisdom), but we don’t dare mention the Bible in mixed company anymore.


5 posted on 05/29/2022 4:55:54 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Nextrush
And by mothers KILLING THEIR OWN CHILDREN!! And being VERY proud of it and VOTING for MORE DEAD BABIES!

Put GOD and His Son, Jesus, back into the USA and into schools and homes....and NEVER VOTE for ANY DEMOCRAT AGAIN!

6 posted on 05/29/2022 4:58:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Nextrush

Bkmk for later read.


7 posted on 05/29/2022 5:26:51 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: Nextrush

No one speaks of violent video games and violent movies. It IS part of the problem. These kids don’t just play these games for a few hours every day, they are obsessed with them.

You mix the abandoned kid with violent games/movies, and just for fun, throw in psychotropic drugs, you get a mass murderer.


8 posted on 05/29/2022 5:38:29 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Super, Duper, Ultra Maga, subject of the Ultra Maga King Donald)
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To: Baldwin77

Then add to that- remove God from the kid’s life. He’ll believe he will never answer for his actions.

Recipe for disaster.


9 posted on 05/29/2022 5:46:51 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Super, Duper, Ultra Maga, subject of the Ultra Maga King Donald)
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To: Nextrush

“NO-FAULT” divorce laws swept the country in the late 60s and it has been downhill ever since. Religious leaders and other people with sense predicted we would get the terrible broken homes — no real homes for children — exactly as we have today.

Tighten divorce laws again and increase per-child welfare payments for children of two-parent homes?


10 posted on 05/29/2022 6:05:56 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Nextrush
I suspect most reporters now writing about the Ukraine war do not even know that it began in 2014 with a violent US-backed putsch against the legitimate, elected president. Or perhaps they just don’t believe it. Well, this is what Jack Matlock, who was Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to Moscow, says.

He states that the USA ‘supported an illegal coup d’etat that changed the Ukrainian government in 2014, a procedure not normally considered consistent with the rule of law or democratic governance’. He should know. This shocking fact is true and shameful. The first shots in this horrible, needless war were not fired by Russia.

11 posted on 05/29/2022 6:49:39 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Nextrush

A lot of people were saying this as far back as the 1950s (maybe earlier), when it was just a question of what was called “divorce reform”.


12 posted on 05/29/2022 9:45:47 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Pollard

That was in the column too well Obama was POTUS at the time and Victoria Nuland a major player in the foreign policy apparatus.


13 posted on 05/29/2022 10:09:42 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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