Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Nicely Said

Another failure for Jesus speakers…

Coming from a deeply religious family, I fully understand the words of Rabbi Marc Howard Wilson regarding the Abu Ghraib guards, at least those who are being prosecuted.

"I cannot tell you much more about their upbringing, but I can tell you this: If, as friends and family are saying, the Abu Ghraib guards were a bunch of “good, churchgoing kids,” the pulpit betrayed them. Strive though it may, the pulpit will never have the influence to prevent every incident of promiscuity, shoplifting and getting crazy at college. But, it has flunked every test known to humanity if “good churchgoing kids” have not internalized the message that forcing captives at gunpoint to perform fellatio while mugging for the camera makes you a barbarian who has mortally desecrated every word of God’s teaching."

Amen.

“The ‘Good Churchgoing Kids’ of Abu Ghraib"

Posted by John Venlet on 01/26 at 06:53 PM
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In Place Of Parents

Unfit, or conditioned to acquiesce?...

When I read the story about the two boys, aged nine and ten, who were arrested for drawing, crudely, pictures which appear to show mayhem being inflicted on an individual, named or initialed in the drawn pictures, I just shook my head.  Arresting children for drawing graphic pictures.  Come on.  Granted, children can, with a mixture of pleasure and macbre curiosity, inflict cruelties on other children, an unfortunate but somewhat normal part of growing up, but does this picture drawing warrant arresting children?  What happened to calling mom and dad in, immediately, for a conference with the kid, asking the kid what the pictures are all about, and then dressing the kid down?  Remember how to do that?  Or, if one wants to attempt the kinder, gentler approach, set the kid up with the school psychologist.  I’m fairly certain that the school has one of those on board, can’t have a school without one now-a-days.

The State is way out of line, here, and the school officials are simply their dumb waiters.  The parents, well, the parents are either sheeplely standing back, possibly they actually are unfit parents, or they are simply sucked into the vacuum of vacuousness that State bureaucracies have become, and they acquiesce to numbing stupidity.

“Students Arrested Over ‘Violent’ Stick Figure Drawings"

Update: Mike Soja remarks on the imbecility mentioned in this post over at No Treason. Mike’s post is titled “The New Nanny State and Probable Cause."

Update, again: Sean, at Everything I Know Is Wrong, states this in his post on this subject.

"By the standard they are using to charge the two boys, anyone could be arrested for anything. If I made a sandwich for lunch and you were for some reason frightened by it, I could be arrested. If you said “pudding” and I felt threatened by it, you could be arrested. This is no basis for a legal system."

This most recent update is courtesy of Ally.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/26 at 06:03 PM
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Good Question

Endarkment continues apace…

Billy Beck asks the right question after reading that Villianova University will honor a dead teacher who slashed her six month old baby’s throat, and then killed herself while in jail for said act.

The teacher’s name was Mine Ener, and the university will honor the murderer by dedicating a section of their library, in her name.  You know, just a quiet place to get away.

Billy’s question.

“On what planet?"

The story.

“University Honors Popular Teacher Who Killed Her Baby"

Posted by John Venlet on 01/26 at 04:26 AM
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