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.
Kill them, jail them....Burn her at the stake!
Like Geraldo Rivera said last night on TV, get social service on them!! Take that kid away from her parents!!
Should attention seeking air shows and NASCAR be banned?
Oh my how your tune changes on a dime...
I understand you need to save face...but it’s way too late for that...screaming about nascar aint gonna distract from you getting suckered by a family of attention whores.
Sure they got a right to make a buck...but stop pretending it was about anything other than making a buck.
It surely wasnt about rugged individualism or pioneer spirit...
It's actually fun watching them come unglued....
Should we ban air shows too?
Of course they chose to rescue her. That was what she and her family were counting on, that if something goes wrong, the good will of many good people who come along and bail her out. It doesn’t make it right that they took advantage of their goodwill.
And nobody is against freedom, but there is no freedom without the responsibility that comes with it. She is free to try to sail the ocean, but she/her family should bear the responsibility of the consequences of that attempt, such as the cost of her rescue. When you take the freedom without the responsibility, that’s not freedom, that’s theft.
The family didn't "PUT" their daughter in anything. She was a cognizant part of the decision to attempt this feat. She didn't succeed, but she tried and deserves a great deal of credit for that. She made it a heck of a lot farther than the "adult" critics on this thread would have gone. And she certainly had the ability to make the trip.
And besides, who's daughter is she - the family's daughter or the government's daughter? Many here think that the state has higher authority than the family (including her). I disagree with that. If she'd have died, then the family would have to live with the consequences. It would be no skin off your back or mine, nor that of the government or society in general.
“Should we ban air shows too?”
Why is abby looking to become a stunt pilot next?
Ya don't have attention seekers in NASCA? lol...
How about pilots in air shows? Any attnetion seeks there?
Hehehhe...
If that's THEIR law, then that's what they will do. They wrote it.
Should we ban air shows?
How about mountain climbers under 18 years old?
I guess the only acceptable risks kids are supposed to take these days involve gay sex, drugs and scamming "the man" for handouts.
Um, you were the one saying they didn’t have to do it????
Perhaps I’m confused because I need sleep. It couldn’t be that you’ve just come full circle!
Good night!
“Should we ban air shows?
How about mountain climbers under 18 years old?”
So abby is going to be a stunt pilot and climb mountains too?
That’s gonna be one hell of a reality show!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2533958/posts?page=2
“If the young girl returns safely and refuses interviews, stories, book deals and movie offers then she can say she did it for the challenge.”
She already said she’ll write a book, as her brother is doing. How about a reality show?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2533958/posts
Sunderland “reality” show preplanned before Abby’s misadventure
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2533958/posts?page=2
Yes, I said that they didn't have to. Nobody else made them do it. They wrote their own law, and then followed it. It was therefore done by their own volition.
Get a bunch of your homeowners association friends that can't stand anyone doing something different...
See if you can get social service involved slick.
Start a Abby boycott!!
And NASA went to a lot of trouble and expense to bring us a live broadcast from the moon... I enjoyed that one too.
“You should start a anti-Abby club...”
Her family is a bunch of attention whores....It would have to be called Sutherlandepicfail.com
“Get a bunch of your homeowners association friends that can’t stand anyone doing something different...”
I get the feeling you’ve been screwed over by a homeowners association...let me guess....you never read your deed before you closed on your house....and now you’re mad at the world...
BTW I own a couple houses...none in a subdivision suject to a HOA....sucks to be you I guess...
“See if you can get social service involved slick”
Well chief...no need...I’m sure the negative PR they are going to get will catch up soon enough.
“Start a Abby boycott!!”
Have to wait for the reality TV show first..let me know how her book turns out...I wont be buying it either.
When you gonna show your face in the other thread?
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