Posted on 06/12/2010 9:51:14 AM PDT by Talisker
I've found the slander and contempt expressed on Free Republic towards Abby Sunderland and her parents quite interesting. Of course, we're all supposed to believe that every post on FR is independently made, but these hate posts have been too interlocked in similiarly bizarre content for me to believe that.
Basically the hateful screeds boil down to Abby being a child instead of a young woman, unable to understand the danger of her trip, put at risk by fame seeking parents, to do something with no socially approved redeeming value, which ended in abject failure due to Abby's incompetence, and for which CPS should be called in to have Abby pulled from the family for re-education, while the parents are jailed, fined, and billed for the rescue efforts.
In short, an absolutely damning, completely collectivist viewpoint with zero acknowledgement of independent rights, which is based solely on collectivist evaluation, collectivist judgment, and collectivist punishment - fronted as family values and child protection.
Oh yeah, and also a complete and utter lie.
For there were many expert sailors as advisors behind this trip, all of whom signed off on both Abby's abilities, her equipment and her trip plan. And there was never any hint of her family not being willing to pay for any part of the rescue efforts. Entire ships have been destroyed through rogue waves, but there's no acknowledgement of that universal danger. And Abby performed beautifully as a sailor and as an adult, through storms, equipment failures, and difficulties across thousands of miles of sailing, and a crisis situation which would have had all of these naysayers pissing their pants.
But pants pissing is the point here - the very big point. Because Abby threatens the millions of families who base their concept of child rearing on the idea that childhood, literally, never ends. That children must be driven everywhere and monitored constantly, even as teenagers. That they need psych meds for growing pains. That responsibility is an injustice towards them, because they can't be allowed to develop any personal power that is not first approved by the mommy educational collective.
So pants pissing has become noble. It has become the sign of respect towards the community, of good parenting, and of normal childhood - the childhood that never ends. In fact, pants-pissing has become the litmus test of social approval itself, because it enables the protection of neurotic helicopter parents who see bogeymen under every bush so that they can justify an obsession about their children's safety that allows THEM to never grow up.
And guess which political party they ALL belong to, and HOPE to never CHANGE from?
So to them, now - now - "we" have this tiny little thumb-sucking girl child, only 16 years old and so barely out of diapers, being thrown into the ocean by greedy parents, straight into a hurricane to drown for their greed, with absolutely no approval from any group of safety parent educators or state approved parental control boards!
Do you realize what this could do to the carefully created psychological voting blocks of the pants pissers? Especially when that so-called "mom" from Alaska with the big family that hunts and fishes and camps and snow machines is running around actually threatening to run for high office?
Do you see the connection here? If Abby is praised and acknowledged for her courage and maturity, and for living life instead of just conforming to it, and especially - especially - for her individuality, her acceptance of personal risk and responsibility without the approval of the collective, people might start to remember what it means to be an American again! They might start to remember freedom, and risk for the sake of living life to the fullest, and learning through doing, and the value of learning courage in the face of difficulty, and they might start to discover their self-respect again, and build character.
And how would that effect the pants-pissing moms who scuttle through life at the end of the snapping fingers of feminist, communist, education-collective politicians? How would that effect their views of the locked-down, cop-patrolled, drug-infected, psych-medicated, fenced prison hellholes of morale-crushing subservience called public schools? How would that effect the ability of these politicians to convince these collectively-approved, latte-sucking "moms" to continue to destroy their children - by never letting them grow up - in the name of "safety"?
And above all, how would that effect the votes?
No, no, no, no, no. Call out the shills, invade the Net, and even get on Free Republic and in the name of God, parenting, sin, ego, vanity, stupidity and every other communist-studied conservative trigger-word, invoke cowardice in the name of responsibility, rip away adulthood with the insult of enforced childhood, hammer on cost without mentioning no resistance to payment, and above all sneer at parenting that is based of building courage and trust and adventure as an absolutely unforgivable violation of the sacred order of socially approved pants-pissing.
And demand wet pants! Wet pants for social justice! Wet pants for lack of guilt! And especially, wet pants for votes!
After all, it's for the children.
P.S. Congratulations to Abby and her family - you all did great. Abby sailed with competence, courage and joy, and inspired millions of people. If America is to have a future in freedom, she and people like her are the ones who will make it happen. But above all, she and her family made selfish cowards and conniving hypocrites everywhere publicly wet themselves, and for that America is truly grateful.
“Compared to him, you’re human trash right?”
You’re right!
>> In all my 72 years anytime I figured I had more than a 50% probability of survival I proceeded.
It’s time to put a lid on it, stud. You’re on medicare now and we don’t want to pay any more than we have to for your sorry crippled ass.
:-)
The rescue operation was tricky, as expected, as seas remained large and shifting when the large fishing boat arrived. The pickup was by a crew in a smaller boat and at one point its captain fell overboard and "was fished out in difficult conditions," said a statement from French authorities.
how many rescuers have be killed one day for people to wake up to these stupid parental ego trips/stunts
Go to hell asshole!!!!
You are a waste of bandwidth.
That’s about the reply I expected, but with even MORE exclamation points at the end.
You must be one of the chickenshit babyboomers!
People in the rescue business -- firefighters, policemen, coast guard etc-- all assume a certain degree of risk with their job. All of them are volunteers. Did you read Perfect Storm? Or see the film? Some of the coast guard rescuers died in the attempt, if I recall correctly. If you think her voyage was a "stupid parental ego trips/stunts" then we disagree there. I admire Abby and her parents.
I don’t know what a “babyboomer” is. Small submarine armed with nuclear missiles?
“Baby boomers and after generations are LESS THAN HUMAN trash!”
Remember this gramdpa...we’ll be the ones keeping you be being unplugged...just sayin’
“started drag racing at 8,”
Oh really?...where could an 8 year old drag race in 1946?
Enlighten us please...The first dragstrip, the Santa Ana Drags, began running on an airfield in Southern California in 1950.
Talk about smelling like BULLSHIT.
62 and younger know nothing pussys that grew up with their parents giving them everything!
The generation after them is even more useless!
>> “started drag racing at 8,”
Maybe he means he raced soapbox derby... in drag.
>> 62 and younger know nothing pussys
I know how to spell “pussies”, at least! That’s something!
Do you end each and every sentence with an exclamation point! Or what!
“The first dragstrip, the Santa Ana Drags,”
Know it well drove a flathead rail there when I was 12 that was owned by my future partner Ed Tiffany and went 128.
Also held the D roadster fuel record there running for Sparks and bonnie Automotive.
Before Santa Ana it was street racing!
Wally parks was a pussy promoting drag strips and used to come to our club meetings with his pitch.
No. I think he is saying conservatives shouldn't be pilots. Or take on any such endeavor that requires "unnecessary" risk.
Appreciate the post.
There will always be risk takers and risk avoiders...often the two groups don’t understand the other very well...But you said some true things here.
Well stated. I agree with you completely.
Agreed.
Rescuers help people that need help. At the end of the day you can’t have them deciding whether the person was doing something stupid or smart to get into the situation. A lot of car accidents are the result of people acting stupidly; I would hope my kid would need rescuing for doing something “stupid” like going after his dream as opposed to texting while driving....
At the end of the day, this is no more of a “parental ego trip or stunt” than letting your 15 year old go on a mission trip to Haiti. It’s dangerous, the world is a dangerous place, but a kid that wants to do something like that as opposed to sitting on the couch should be praised and encouraged.
Blennos,
The mental aberration you describe has a name, it’s called “crab mentality”, well known and practiced in Asian countries. It is when someone is perceived to be rising above the masses, the envious do-nothings use all means to destroy the ambitious one and force them back down into the masses again.
Talisker,
Right on ! I guess that me, my parents and the U.S. Navy should be punished severely for I joined the Navy at the age of 17. Before I was 18, I was at the top of a mast, at sea, in heavy swells, replacing masthead lights. This was the beginning of 13 years at sea aboard ships, large and small, Navy and civilian, in all kinds of weather, including several typhoons.
The situation with the young lady sailor is not all that unusual. Stuff happens at sea and rescue is performed without thought of placing blame or asking payment. It is the way of the mariners life at sea. She performed admirably under difficult conditions. Her age did not have anything to do with the equipment failure. Professional ocean yacht race crews have experienced the same dismasting without the wailing and gnashing of teeth that is displayed here by these statists against this very competent SAILOR.
Anyone should be confident of her sailing ability.
Topsail
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