Run! Get out while you can!

I didn't think I was going to say that anymore. High school students are teenagers, right? The age when they learn that an adult's opinion is not sacrosanct or even sane? When they have their own opinions? 150 of them have walked out to protest their teacher's absence, so I guess so. Intimidation in the classroom? In the transcripts, one of the student interjects. Shouldn't expose uncomfortable truths? That's the age they learn such concepts and they don't take you seriously if all you do is spout the official line. You don't get political education from a mainstream, middle American.

When even the academics won't defend debate, democracy is in trouble. The school board didn't even tell the teacher to invite guest speakers. And if anybody asks, I'd have no problem with a teacher stating that the US must bomb Iran before they acquire the A-bomb. No matter what the opinion, there'll be plenty of students jumping up and asking "So, what about...?" Just don't teach politics to the pre-teens.

Run! Get out while you can! Before you're fired for disagreeing with Fox News in public. Before you become a name on an unwritten, 'unpatriotic' list. Before your computer is seized during investigations of sedition. Before your blackened reputation makes your friends and family guilty by association. Before you can no longer obtain a passport. Before you are forced to become an asylum seeker.

Post #246,875 by warmachine 3/5/06 2:49:23 PM 3/5/06 4:10:53 PM Reply	Run! Get out while you can! I didn't think I was going to say that anymore. High school students are teenagers, right? The age when they learn that an adult's opinion is not sacrosanct or even sane? When they have their own opinions? 150 of them have walked out to protest their teacher's absence, so I guess so. Intimidation in the classroom? In the transcripts, one of the student interjects. Shouldn't expose uncomfortable truths? That's the age they learn such concepts and they don't take you seriously if all you do is spout the official line. You don't get political education from a mainstream, middle American. When even the academics won't defend debate, democracy is in trouble. The school board didn't even tell the teacher to invite guest speakers. And if anybody asks, I'd have no problem with a teacher stating that the US must bomb Iran before they acquire the A-bomb. No matter what the opinion, there'll be plenty of students jumping up and asking "So, what about...?" Just don't teach politics to the pre-teens. Run! Get out while you can! Before you're fired for disagreeing with Fox News in public. Before you become a name on an unwritten, 'unpatriotic' list. Before your computer is seized during investigations of sedition. Before your blackened reputation makes your friends and family guilty by association. Before you can no longer obtain a passport. Before you are forced to become an asylum seeker. Matthew Greet Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? - Mark Renton, Trainspotting. Edited by warmachine March 5, 2006, 04:10:53 PM EST Expand All History
Post #246,890 by jbrabeck 3/5/06 5:54:49 PM Reply	Probably too late for those of us who have posted here... A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Post #246,977 by CRConrad 3/6/06 9:38:55 AM Reply	"In Soviet America, the Web searches YOU!" Muahahahahaa! Or something.
Post #246,978 by boxley 3/6/06 9:40:23 AM Reply	LRPD that sucker Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #246,988 by rcareaga 3/6/06 11:53:28 AM Reply	or to put it another way, little Pavel Trofimoviz Morozov ...did not die in vain. For that matter his shade appears, like many a living Russian, to be thriving as a transplant in the Crawford Caligula's USSA. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #247,041 by Silverlock 3/6/06 11:02:02 PM Reply	The Crawford Caligula I like that. Fine choice of words. ----------------------------------------- NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable cause. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President. -Put it on all your emails
Post #247,175 by rcareaga 3/8/06 1:52:35 AM Reply	Re: The Crawford Caligula Wish I could claim first coinage, but it's been out there for a good while. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.

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