Police in Colorado pepper spray...wait for it...an 8-year-old boy. Here's the link, in case you think I'm making that up, and I wish to God I was
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We have not technically become a nation of cowards. We have become a police state. A place where the police are an occupying army, and the citizenry, (including 8 year old boys) are the ENEMY.
Yeah, as I said, excessive force by the police isn't news anymore. But what's up with the teachers locking themselves away for safety? Really? What paragons of fortitude. They work in a special needs school, designed for troubled kids. They're supposed to be trained for this kind of thing.
And all the people voting and commenting...over 27,000 now...who agree that a little kid was such an awful, terrifying threat that needed to be pepper sprayed. Have 8-year-olds gotten that much bigger and stronger since I was eight? Are we feeding kids Kryptonian steroids or something?
Ms "the school and police are partly to blame for allowing the incident to spiral out of control" would have sued their ass had they laid a hand on her special little snow flake.
We got the society the nanny state wants, only designated agents of the state may use force of any kind.
What? This is surprising? How so? The schools press criminal charges against any children who get into fights these days, even those who clearly got attacked, if they fight back, they are at fault. They suspend kids for making a finger gun. They've been turning society into defenseless sheep for decades.
Then his two gene donors don't seem to parent him at all. Given the situation, and the inability to legally beat some sense into the little shit, pepper spray seems to be a pretty decent response.
Maybe I'm simply too prideful, but I swear I'd rather face a lawsuit and possible jail time than admit to the world that I hid in a closet from an 8-year-old having a tantrum.
I no longer recognize the world I live in. When I was eight, if I'd thrown that kind of fit, Mrs. Ross (my 3rd grade teacher, a formidable old broad who could have intimidated Genghis Khan) would have yanked that stick out of my hand and swung for the bleachers, with me as the ball. And God help me if my Dad had heard about me throwing a screaming, stick-waving fit at school. He'd have pounded me into the ground like a tent stake. And I'd have deserved it, and thanked him and Mrs. Ross when I grew up and straightened out.
I guess I have a tough time making sense out of this incident because I steadfastly refuse to abandon common sense, no matter how passe and out of date that seems in 21st century America.
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And all the people voting and commenting...over 27,000 now...who agree that a little kid was such an awful, terrifying threat that needed to be pepper sprayed. Have 8-year-olds gotten that much bigger and stronger since I was eight? Are we feeding kids Kryptonian steroids or something?
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We got the society the nanny state wants, only designated agents of the state may use force of any kind.
What? This is surprising? How so? The schools press criminal charges against any children who get into fights these days, even those who clearly got attacked, if they fight back, they are at fault. They suspend kids for making a finger gun. They've been turning society into defenseless sheep for decades.
Then his two gene donors don't seem to parent him at all. Given the situation, and the inability to legally beat some sense into the little shit, pepper spray seems to be a pretty decent response.
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I no longer recognize the world I live in. When I was eight, if I'd thrown that kind of fit, Mrs. Ross (my 3rd grade teacher, a formidable old broad who could have intimidated Genghis Khan) would have yanked that stick out of my hand and swung for the bleachers, with me as the ball. And God help me if my Dad had heard about me throwing a screaming, stick-waving fit at school. He'd have pounded me into the ground like a tent stake. And I'd have deserved it, and thanked him and Mrs. Ross when I grew up and straightened out.
I guess I have a tough time making sense out of this incident because I steadfastly refuse to abandon common sense, no matter how passe and out of date that seems in 21st century America.
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