and a follow up on our young friends down in florida giving us all a reminder why there's a 'florida tag'...
The girl can no longer see well out of one eye and hear from one ear...see... this is where the chinese justice system works and ours fails...
"Some parents were remorseful. The kids really were not. They were laughing and joking about, (saying), 'I guess we won't get to go to the beach during spring break.' And one, as you said, asked whether she could go to cheerleading practice," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
we have the girls... on video... in jail... committing the crime and showing no remorse... why is there a question of 'will they receive a fair trial'. Was there a question of guilt? Why do i long for the days of an eye for an eye - literally...
I found Anon's reaction interesting - they went after the perps hard (had names and addresses up in 30 minutes) - but they went after the victim too as just another Heather. Disaffected youth are getting a bit more disposed to violence these days... could be a lot more people bemoaning the loss of their dead gay son if things continue down this road...
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This story really rattles me. These are the kids in my neighborhood. Not literally, of course, but in terms of social level, background, education, etc. I haven't read the follow up, but the bit that stuck in my craw after I read the original story was the mother of one of the lookout boys who said something along the lines of "I don't see why they [the police] want with my son. He didn't have anything to do with it."
If the girls weren't actually ON VIDEO, I'm guessing that most of their parents would be saying the same thing. I know video games and violent programming and all that is blamed for this stuff, but I feel pretty certain that a big part of it is that most parents today are completely unwilling to accept that their children could do anything wrong. So many parents are in complete denial about their kids, and they spend endless amounts of energy defending them and bitching at teachers when their kids are called out for doing something wrong. So an entire generation has grown up with the idea that they can do anything with no fear of consequences. And they know that someone is going to come in behind them and clean it up.
Start throwing parents in jail for their fucked up kids. Perhaps parents will start parenting again. It's so pathetic that you need a license to drive but not a license to procreate (a cliche, but so true).... You should hear the little fucker next to us screaming at his mother and giving her the finger (10 years old at most, my guess). If I were his father I'd give him something serious to think about.... Of course, nowadays, if you raise your hand to your kid you're likely to have the do-gooders crawling out of the woodwork telling you you shouldn't and that they'll report you to CPS. I tire of this world.
@robyn - yes. parents are more prone to use their kids to whine about something than to actually parent them. The father of the girl who scratched herself up and accused the hispanic kids of threatening her?... the father said that the assignment was 'too adult' for his 8th grade snowflake. It's never the parent...
But the idea that this generation of kids is somehow less responsible than their parents... i dont agree. They're the same - they've learned the same 'who cares, its not my problem - let someone else clean it up' attitude from them. What I dont get is 'what can you do to prevent it...' It's easy to see this is a mess - but i dont know what sort of solution you get when you've underfunded the education system for a generation...
@simon - well, the parents of the one girl will certainly be able to sue the families of the other 8 - and will surely do so - but what good does that really do? These arent wealthy people - and what will end up happening is they'll burn piles of money on lawyers and end up with very little. Personally - i dont want to waste the money on these parents putting them in jail - i dont think it would discourage the behavior. We dont have the sort of govt support systems for taking care of kids who are poorly raised - as i said above, its easy to identify this as a problem, but i dont have a non-draconian solution.
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