You bet your life it does. EVERY parent, since Roe v. Wade, can look at their child when they are being a big PITA and think to themselves "I shoulda flushed this monster when I had the chance.". Whether they condemn themselves with the next thought for that one or not it's still there. The highest law of the land signed sealed and approved to you that onetime opportunity to scuttle your 'little' problem and you, like an idiot, missed your chance.
So how does the Spock-brained parent now feel when all the feel good rhetoric about 'relating to your children' doesn't do a damn bit of good because your five or six year old knows he/she's got the upperhand? "Go ahead and spank me, I'll tell my teacher!" They feel like hitting something that's what they feel like. And many of them today have no self control because they weren't disciplined and there's no discipline anywhere else to be seen.
This group is great! /sarcasm
From a thirty second fuzzy 2 D video about two by two inches taken from thirty yards away they've got enough to crucify this woman before the world. We got dipwads suggesting that 2nd graders should stone her to death. On pay-per-view I bet. That's what we need, Taliban justice. She used her hands to hit the kid so why not just whack 'em off? She's a whore too! Let's get the O.J. SkyCam to follow her car to court with a banner on the screen that says "Child beatin' whore goes to court.". Put her face on every website and every milk carton in the land and let's have Geraldo and O'Reilly get her lawyer on the air and call him some nasty names too.
You want a pound of her flesh? You want justice?You lame bunch of statist sycophantic pricks!!!
Maybe this lady hit her kid. (no one here knows)
Maybe her kid pushes all the right buttons and does it for fun. (no one here knows)
Maybe this child needs a new home and mom needs a serious time-out, with help.
(NO ONE HERE KNOWS)
The only thing that can be said for certain about this story is that 30 seconds of surveillance video can get every loser in America to scream for Barrabas' release and demand to be put on the nailing crew.
There's a story here alright. Not about what this woman did or didn't do. There's a political story about what the government and the media can and will do to a person if given half a chance. It raises some interesting questions like why, how far can they go and who's next? And for what? But it's a whole lot easier to forget all that and let the media and the government dance you around like puppets. It's always fun to be part of something.
And just who is "Barabbas" in this peculiar passion play?
So, "the presumption of innocence" is female?
And how does one obtain a "pound of flesh" from an abstract concept?
But we both know you were analogizing the girl's mother to Jesus Christ. Admit it and quit playing Clintonian word games.
If the mother is "Jesus Christ" in your analogy, who are the "little ones" who Jesus Christ championed, warning that any who offended them would suffer dire and severe judgment?
Well, I know. I saw it.
The video was really unmistakeably clear on that point.