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.
Dude, I hope you’ve sent this family some money to pursue their “dreams”, because if you haven’t , you’re nothing but a troll.
Balloon boy and his family were all about fraud and lies, and then continued to lie days after the hoax...How do you possibly compare these two events?
Write ‘em a check schmuck.
Balloon boy and his family were all about fraud and lies, and then continued to lie days after the hoax...How do you possibly compare these two events?
This family is counting on schmucks like you. DON’T DISAPPOINT THEM... Write ‘em a check
Face it...you have egg on your face....you’ve been duped into thinking this was about anything other than a family of attention whores looking to make a buck off their kids.
All that rage at fellow freepers for nothing...
What about NASCAR?
What about those that rescue those attention seeking drivers in dangerous fiery accidents? What about the fans needlessly injured in racing accidents when 200 mph attention seeking vehicles go out of control?
How about the Mercy-air helicopters used to transport those attention seeking drivers to hospitals when some Veteran or cancer victim might need it?
Should everyone stop taking needless chances?
lol....You people are hysterical....
Verboten by who?
Regardless, it was a French fishing boat that rescued her. They were under no obligation, other than the obligation of the good samaritan, to rescue her either. Just as nobody is obligated to stop and provide aid to victims in a car accident.
I'm glad that they did, of course, just as I'm glad that she was able to embark on this venture without the statists and control freaks forbidding the act. She is a better sailor than 99.999% of the population - probably much more. If she and her family decided that she was ready for this venture, then she was ready.
And her age is not an issue. Some are ready at 14, some at 21, some (mostly democrats, but apparently not all) are never ready. There's no magic bird of intelligence that drops its load on people when they turn 18 or 21.
I don't understand why so many here on FREE Republic are against freedom. Apparently, Jimrob chose the wrong name for the web site. Whoda thunk....
Not me slick. They never asked me for a dime.
“lol....You people are hysterical....”
Beats being a sucker....
You arent looking to buy any land are you?
Go dive in on this thread bud:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2533958/posts?page=16
What about NASCAR?
What about those that rescue those attention seeking drivers in dangerous fiery accidents? What about the fans needlessly injured in racing accidents when 200 mph attention seeking vehicles go out of control?
How about the Mercy-air helicopters used to transport those attention seeking drivers to hospitals when some Veteran or cancer victim might need it?
Should everyone stop taking needless chances?
What about air show?
Should we also ban airshows?
So what?
The family put their daughter in danger for a TV show deal...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2533958/posts?page=16
The whole thing is a publicity stunt that went wrong.
Should attention seeking air shows and NASCAR be banned?
I agree 100%. The world needs more people with guts and sense of adventure, rather than turning us all into lazy wusses who have to let some government decide what we can or cannot do.
Reasonable people can see that this family’s endeavors and those examples you listed can’t be compared.
According to the head of Australia’s Maritime Authority it was their OBLIGATION.
Obviously you do not spend much time on the water.
I agree it’s about freedom. But I think we’d all agree that freedom also carries with it responsibility.
Was this the responsible thing to do for this particular girl, at this particular time? Most experienced sailors think not.
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