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SternSkipper -> RE: Sex Slavery in The US: Why can't American Men Keep it in their Pants? (5/20/2011 9:34:36 AM)
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I know this should MAYBE occupy another thread... but if you read it, you'll see some traction and if you extrapolate a bit, I really feel there;s a tie-in to the larger politics of what we;re talking about...
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The right must read Alinsky all the time - anybody ever disagree with them on anything that hasn't been demonized?
Certainly not me.... I have a lot of (well they're all now demoted to acquaintances, since I started seeing what their horseshit is doing in my kids' lives... I have NEVER seen bullying at a high like this.. and when I trace it back to the source, it's not street urchins, it's 'Bob's son from over in castleview' and the prick of a father is a loud voice in the local tea party). When I say something even overtly 'liberal' in terms of where it tracks politically, I get a blather of regurgitation from like Jay Severin's radio show (This asshole is a WELL PAID radio pundit for the GOP/Tea Party based out of massachusetts, which is for those who don't know it, the front line in the effort to turn a liberal state proletariat gray. He uses the term 'best and brightest' to describe his audience as he downloads merit-less factoids.) My problem with this is that the people being molded really aren't that bright and when I ask them if they've read and understand some of the books cited on the show, or ask pointed questions about the detailed political ideology, they cite the only two or three blurbs they know plus try and work in some out of context 'talking point', Then when I say "Gee thanks, but that's on the back cover of the jacket and it doesn't really answer my question (CAUSE IT DOESN'T), they fly into a fucking rage that would make a shelter dog with his foot in a snare proud.
Okay, I can handle this... it's just morony and I sleep well after telling em they're just fucking programmed and that we'll continue the conversation when they have thoughts of their own. But what I am no longer going to tolerate is when they download the shit to their kids and the kids make use of it in their own way.
I have a son who's twelve, he has for the last 5 years been highest grade earner in his class each year, and he is totally not what you would call a nerd. He is the number 2 scorer of goals in his soccer league, he can rock climb with a confidence and pace that most adults would envy, and when we've been 35 miles from land in any direction crossing the ocean between massachusetts' two capes, I don't have a problem going below for a nap with him at the helm. But you know what makes me proudest of this guy? it's that he is for the most part, one of the gentlest young men I have ever seen.
Well last month the bullying came to our doorstep. This kid, who's loud mouthed rhetoric, I am constantly having to explain to my boy what the deal is with this kid. Well, two days after he got suspended for using the word "nigger" a few too many times. He went after this cute little bi-racial girl who he THOUGHT turned him in (as it turns out it was the kid next door to him in McMansionville who ratted him out cause they were closing in on him for laughing out loud about it and asking the teacher 'what are you going to do about it anyway?"). Anyway, I get a call after this incident from the vice principal saying J had been involved in a fight. I went to the school and they had my boy closed off in a room and this little hitler pulling a sniffling act in the main office. you could smell what must've happened in the air. My boy was about to receive a good railroading. So my first remark walking in was "Hi mark, i hear your Dad is making excellent progress with your vocabulary these days". Then I asked the VP what his beef was. He told me only this "Your son chased mark here through the parking lot at top speed and then tackled him. that's where the road rash on the left side of his face comes from" He'd had a face cloth against his face I took another look and thought 'Oh yeah, that'll leave marks' and then I said to the VP "I want to hear the whole story from my son, before I respond to any of this". He was actually reluctant saying, I'm still looking at this and i don;'t want any of the parents alone with their kids before i reach some conclusion." I told him that I actually wanted him along because I was absolutely confident that my son's account would be sufficiently different and would actually contain the details of what happened as opposed to some half-assed synopsis. He was able to agree to that much.
So we sit down with J and he says that he was coming out of the afterschool band practice, and he saw this mark kid pulling on the aforementioned little girl's hair trying to throw her on the ground. he said he yelled at the kid from a distance and said he wasn't even supposed to be on school property., and the girl broke free and ran. He also said the girl started running and that this kid said "you better run" and started chasing the girl. There were 4 or 5 other kids there apparently and only this chubby kid who is in J's class even bothered to yell at the kid. So J ran after the boy and before the kid could get to the little girl, my boy threw a tackle on the kid and stopped him, and I guess he used him for a sled for a few feet.
I looked at the VP and said "well I guess we can go. Good luck with the little sociopath." This guy actually got up and blocked my way saying "Mr ______, I haven't determined in anyway that your son's account is the truth". I asked if he had short term memory loss and if he'd forgotten the kid was suspended and that my son was in good standing with the school and had a perfect record in terms of his citizenship at school. He agreed but something was keeping him from siding with J, it was crystal clear. He said "i understand your strong liberal approach to things and I am sure you always encourage your son to be the white knight". I said :"Stop right there pal. My political ideologies in this context, or any for that matter have zip to do with my son protecting a defenseless student when your supervision was WHERE?". I told my son to get up, and that we were leaving. As i said this I saw the little girl's Dad come plowing into the main office and basically address the punk who caused all of this with "Oh, so it's you again. tell your daddy that the real reason people go to the NAACP is because of shit like you who leave us nothing else. But also tell him that if he wants to square off with me at this point and debate it. he better bring an extra set of teeth". That obviously got the VP's attention refocused and a big argument ensued between the girls Dad and the VP. I told the guy as I left with J that if he wanted to sue, I would be happy to join him, and that I was terribly sorry about what happened to his little girl (and let me say this, she lives less than a mile away and we see her and her mother in the grocery store all the time. And she is a sweet soft-spoken little girl not her fault if she won't shut up and allow herself to be defined by punks). He merely replied "you're doing a good job with that little man, he's a real gentleman. He is welcome in my home anytime he wants to visit".
Okay, nasties averterted, but ya know what still gets my ass? Since this incident, the father has gone wild spinning the whole incident with mutual friends and acquaintances of ours. And he intimates to people that I am "just a fucking socialist deadhead asshole and I put my son up to targeting his son for violence cause he can't face me with his Obama crap". My friends laugh and say "i wouldn't say that to his face if I were you" and the people who are just neighbors and know both of us tell me and that they think he's nuts. The truth is, and I am somewhat sorry about this, that I never even really addressed what to do about this kid in the event he goes nuts or gets physical till a few weeks ago. And on that day, my son was actually afraid that he was in trouble in my eyes on the way home. I punished him by taking he and his sister to Friendlies for burgers and ice cream.
But six months ago, I might have just laughed rhetoric like that off, but now I've had a taste of where it's going. And I'll break out the Dom anytime anybody wants a pissing match over it.
Peace,
Skipper
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