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OrionTheWolf -> RE: Not For The Easily Offended (7/3/2007 8:20:02 AM)
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Fast Reply:
It is a decent show and I like some of what is on it. Yeah he uses alot of other peoples stuff, but if they are selling it, why not.
A swat on the ass, or raising your voice to a child is not beating the hell out of them. UM's need limits and boundries. So if your 15 year old UM starts ripping apart the house, are you going to restrain them or just call the cops and have them haul them off to jail. Corporal punishment should not be overused, but it should not be removed as a possible punishment. UM's need to learn their are consequences for their actions, and you can come up with many alternatives. I have had to spank my UMs (22 and 15 now) very little (could count on one hand the times for each of them) while they were growing up. They both understand consequences when they break the rules. If you do not teach your kids that, I consider it neglect. In life their are consequences for our actions, why would you not prepare your kids for those? Many UMs today feel they have the power, they have no limits, they have no boundries and because of this they feel unfullfilled. Set goals and expectations for your UM, give them the guidance and tools to meet those goals and expectations, give them punishment when they knowingly step across those boundries. It started with actual abuse (beating the shit out of a UM) then someone went a step further, then another step further, and so on. Now there are laws against raising your voice to a UM.
Corporal punishment does not always mean uncontrolled violence, which many people confuse accidentally or purposefully. Each UM is different and needs to be treated differently. There are some that actually have ADD and ADHD, some that actually have learning disabilities. It is the responsibility of the parent to dig very deep to find out if this is correct. In my limited experience, I have found many parents cling to those diagnosis because now they do not have to accept the fact that maybe they are not being the best parents.
The prison population, has alot to do with the income brackets many people fall into. There are more poor minorities than the majority. As far as profiling goes:
Reporter: "So what actually led you to an arrest."
Cop: "We were looking for a guy that always wore a red baseball cap when doing these armer robberies."
Reported: "Is that all?"
Cop: "From descriptions the armed robbery suspect wore a red baseball cap, sunglasses, white tee shirt, jeans."
Reporter: "Uh huh. anything else?"
Cop: "He was about 6 feet tall, dark hair, and an athletic build."
Reporter" Did they say what race?"
Cop: " he was white."
Reporter: "thank you officer."
alternate ending
Cop: "He was about 6 feet tall, dark hair, and an athletic build."
Reporter" Did they say what race?"
Cop: "he was black."
Reporter: "so you racially profiled to find this suspect. That is deplorable."
Suspect: "yeah I was racially profiled, even if it is an accurate description."
So we will profile based upon all of a persons appearance, except race. If a latino gang is terrorising a neighborhood, are you going to question all the blacks? Also, if white is used as a profile, is not also racially profiling? Yes there is racism everywhere but uou cannot say it is always there. Racism seems to be the new catch phrase, just like "but what about the kids?" Remove the stupid laws on drugs, allow it to go commercial, and now all the junkies can get legitimate jobs as taste testers. If it is legal, it does not fill up our prisons with people that are not violent criminals, removes a tool of making money from the criminal underworld, and will forcing more education of drug abuse and treatment.
The government is the only entity that is legally allowed to force their opinion on you, and use deadly force if need be. More laws equal more power to that entity and less power to the people. Think about it.
Orion
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