Posted on 11/05/2011 10:15:20 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
“Countdown” guest host David Shuster calls out Michigan’s Republican lawmakers for moving a so-called anti-bullying bill forward with language that actually protects bullies. Shuster calls “Matt’s Law” – named after a 14-year-old boy who killed himself in 2002 after anti-gay classmates poured syrup and crushed eggs on his head – “an embarrassment to anybody with half a brain in the great state of Michigan.”
“ an embarrassment to anybody with half a brain “
Don’t see what the problem is - Liberals (by definition, ‘half a brain’) are incapable of embarrassment...
Yep, you get it.
The bill the democrats wanted would have made it a crime for a Christian to openly oppose homosexuality.
This all originated with Kevin Jennings, former Safe Schools Czar, pushing his homo agenda.
Typical statis tactic. Take an emotionally charged word like bully, pour new meaning into it, then use it as a weapon against your enemies.
Exactly, they were hoping people would give the expected knee jerk reaction to the word “Bully” and they could criminalize Christian doctrine.
This is a common tactic on the left - exploit temporary hysteria to permanently enshrine in law thought and action control of their opponents.
Another is to use take a commonly understood term and extend its meaning to include nonsense. For example, "rape" now can include any intercourse the woman later regrets, and if anyone objects to an unjust prosecution on these grounds they can be labled as being "for rape."
All a bullying bill does is change the victims into the bullies.
The new victims then no longer have any protections.
The should just call the bill the anti white Christian male with a job bill.
Exactly. Interestingly, the Founders expected that law would be prostituted, and installed a check, the Right to Trial by a Jury of Peers. The Jury may nullify a prosecution under a prostituted law.
Informed Jurors certainly will.
All this BS about getting tough on bullying is a just that BS. The administrators and powers that be just want another layer of bureaucracy and laws to cover their incompetent asses because they won’t do their jobs and enforce discipline.
The best thing to do when a bully is involved is a punch right in the nose, followed by 5 or 10 more. Take your part and beat the bully badly or hurt him so much he will think twice before messing with you again.
Oh, it's far, far worse than that. The bill prohibits any gesture or writing or utterance -- on or off school property and including electronically transmitted communication -- that is perceived as being motivated by race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.
This is a wholesale abridgement of First Amendment rights. It is a pathetic attempt to use the law to force people to be nice, and is fraught with all sorts potential for supposedly unintended consequences.
But, really, it's just another demonstration of the incompetence of government to provide essential services like education and, more fundamentally, how any expansion of the state (e.g., education, health care) comes at the expense of liberty.
The new victims then no longer have any protections.
An excellent point.
We certainly didn’t have bullying laws when I was in school and I was a natural target......till I ended it.
Shuster is exactly what I envision when I picture the kid on the playground who is always running away from the other boys like a scared bunny rabbit. I mean, who wouldn’t pick on that weasel-faced little faggot? Shuster’s a faggot, right?
Right. To feel embarrassment, one must accept at least a few of the "norms" of society, one must at least feel like they are a part of the larger society to some extent.
Liberals, who by and large are, in the present time, extreme left-wing radicals, reject society. They reject pretty much everything about the Western concepts of work, self-reliance, achievment, the rule of law, etc., etc.
For that reason, they can't be embarrassed. They feel that they are at war with everything, with reality.
The fact that, in most places in the world, placing onesself in opposition to society in general will get you persecuted, imprisoned, even tortured and killed... doesn't faze them in the least. The fact that they are protected and nurtured by forces and institutions within our society isn't seen by them as anything to be thankful for. It's seen as a symptom of the weakness and susceptibility of our society. It's an invitation for further mayhem, as license for destruction.
These people are truly delusional; as we've seen in the Occupy movement, not a few of them are actually quite mad.
They are the useful idiots that every communist insurrection needs to gain power. As soon as they take power, they are swept aside by the real revolutionaries. As another Freeper said earlier this week: "they live their last moments staring into a mass grave, saying to themselves what's happening? what did I do wrong?"
You know, I’ve actually had food poured on my head by a bully - I remember the experience well. I didn’t go out and kill myself over it.
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