posted on Jun, 20 2007 @ 01:06 PM
I somehow doubt that safety was the issue here. We may not want to admit it, but we could well be the last rebels. Or some of the last.
What was the lesson taught to all the other students the day they sent this kid away? CONFORM. Be politically correct. Do not deviate. You have no
legal standing as a citizen of the United States, and we'll do the thinking for you from now on.
I would even bet that the argument was brought up by someone that they"had a responsibility to protect the other students" and that an "example has
to be made before someone gets hurt." Big brother smothers us in love, even when he has to shove it in our face with a badge and a gun to back it
up.
And there's a wee bit of hypocrisy going on right here at ATS. I haven't looked, but I'll bet that if I check out old threads from the day of the
Virginia Tech shooting, I'll find some different tunes. Statements like "someone should have stopped him, after all, he had known mental problems."
Or maybe, " Instead of being in Iraq we ought to be protecting our schools." That's how the NWO, or whatever it turns out to be, is getting us to
give up our rights. They convince us that life is too perilous without them there to save us.
Now the truth,IMO, is in the middle between then and now. Yes, we need to protect everyone. But the sad truth is it is just not possible to make the
world 100% safe. Life has risks, even for the young. But these kinds of actions of taking someones rights from them over nothing except our own fears
is wrong. And from seat belts to gun laws, it is the cowardice of we citizens that let it happen this way.
The sad thing is, our leaders know just how to keep those fears fed. And this will let them make freedom only a memory. This event of punishing this
person for a map sent a message loud and clear that kids are without any rights as Americans. And slowly it will not be just kids, but everyone.
Because in America, everybody wants to go to Heaven, but they're all terrified of dying.