A Captive Audience

Yesterday I picked my 14 year old son up from school right as school was ending. He normally rides the school bus, but I had to get him to a doctor's appointment. Anyway, as he got in the car he told me a very intereting and HIGHLY annoying tale:

One of the councellors at his Middle School (Foley, AL) brought all the kids to a mandatory assembly yesterday (each group gave up their PE time for this). At that assembly, the councellor got up and told them the Iraqi war is wrong, there is never an excuse for violence, etc., etc., liberal prattle, etc. My son, being afterall, my son, asked him, "So if someone holds me down and is beating me to death, I should just ... let it happen?!" The Councellor said, yes, he should. He also said that fighting back (violence) is never the answer. "But it should never get that far," the goober went on to say, "If you disagree with someone, just bring them to me or a teacher so I can mediate the disagreement."

Um ... yeah ... I can see how THIS would play out:

Thug: "Gimmie your lunch money, Homie! Or I'll kick your ass!"
Kid: "No, I don't believe that is the right thing to do in this instance."
Thug: "I'll kick your scrawny little white ass! Gimmie the money!"
Kid: "Wait, rather than perpetuate the cycle of violence and social sterotyping, let us take this argument before our learned councellor."
Thug: "Ah, I can see the wisdom in your words. Let us not tarry but rather we shall rush forth and seek his sage council."
[later]
Thug: "I can see now the error of my ways. Previously, by carrying on such I was pepetuating a cycle of violence and hatred. I should be ashamed, yet I shall channel that emotion in a positive light and go forth now and preach peace, love, understanding, and urge everyone to seek non-violent alternatives. We should never harm nor kill our fellow man ... except for unwanted unborn babies, of course."

Methinks, instead that there are two far mor likely outcomes:
ONE - the kid hands over his money and the thug goes on to abuse others, coming back regularly to this kid since he has proven to be easy pickings.
TWO - the kids wails the crap out of the thug and win, loose, or draw the thug decides that it's just not worth loosing his crooked little teeth to mess with THIS kid again!

Why do we insist on creating a whole generation of voluntary victims? I do not understand how we, the people of the strongest nation on this Earth, a nation born of fire and blood and constant struggle, could ever embrace the idea of being a willing victim. It is abhorrent; it is disgusting; and it is patently Un-American.

It's bad enough this liberal yahoo wants the kids to be fodder for whatever social deviant decides to pound upon them, but to hold a captive audience of impressionable young teenagers and start blathering on to them about your own political beliefs is unforgivable. Methinks this jerk needs to spend a wee bit more time in his school's history classes and a lot less time in liberal chat rooms!

I'm still undecided as to what would be the best course of action. I was thinking at first to have a word with the new pricipal there, maybe a column in the local "Sound Off", perhaps see if a local reporter might cover this on the evening news ... In any event, I'm telling as many parents as I know who have kids in that school what happened.

On a good note, my son tells me that most of the student body ignored this moron and despite their youth, seem to know better how the real world works. That, at least, is somewhat comforting.

I'm thinking of having a few words with the principal (which is a HUGE thing for me ... I do so hate confrontations), maybe a write up in the local newspaper's Sound Off column, and perhaps a "news tip" to sympathetic local reporters. I'm also telling every parent I know about it. I'm ... perturbed.

He'd "Rather" Sue?!

Okay, so ousted CBS news anchor and lip-man for the rabid liberals, Dan Rather has announced he is suing his former employer. Why? Well, in a nutshell, he says they fired him wrongfully, using him as a "scapegoat" in order to make the Whitehouse happy. Hmm ... So, let me get this straight, this is the same newsman who took part in reporting a totally false story a few years back about some vehicles blowing up, the same reporter who insisted on refering to the President of the United States of America as "Mr. Bush" because he (the reporter) did not agree with the controversial election results in 2000, once again proved his bias by reporting the false story about PRESIDENT George W. Bush's military service record. He was fired (or made to quit, or sent to early retirement, or whatever you want to call it). He, perhaps more so than any other media pundit (are reporters supposed to be pundits?) has damaged the liberal mainstream media's reputation. Mr. Rather (yes, that is a dig) is a liar, a mass manipulator, and despite his "journalist" title, has proven himself to be little more than a mouthpiece for liberalism at its most profane. And now he wants to sue.

Tell me, please, does anything demonstrate the sociopathic, wolf-in-sheep's-clothing nature of the full-blown Liberal so much as the abuse of the American legal system? Criminals sue cops for arresting them (hell, in my experience, you can have a drunken mob attack a police officer who is of course then injured, attempt to choke and diarm said cop, and then, when he manages to free himself and get a couple of them under arrest [with "only the tiniest red mark I could see" according to a physician the next morning] and they sue the cop who has stitches in his head! They lost, but still ...), failed candidates sue their political victors, minority "leaders" sue over trumped up prejudice charges ... and the list goes on and on.

Now here we are, with who was once the darling boy of the "drive-by" media (if I may borrow the phrase from Rush Limbaugh) who oversteps his bounds and thereby brings fire and ethical questions down upon the head of not only his corporate masters, but the liberal cause for which he utters, AND, perhaps most sadly, the very reputation of honorable journalism as a whole. He gets the (long overdue) boot ... and he is suing?! 'Tis a sad day, indeed!