Another important zero-tolerance landmark!: CNN (IRVINGTON, N.J. (AP): “Kids Charged for Wielding Paper Gun” Indeed, a paper gun this time… not something more incidious, such as a butter knife, aspirin, or bubble gum cigars. Is society, school administration, and government been pressured by the religious right-wing attention grabbing politicians, opportunistic and overzealous parents into treating all of our children as criminals until they are adults? Can we possibly be living in such a draconian society that we actually think that zero tolerance is needed in today’s society? Perhaps we should resurrect the writings and teachings of Adolph Hitler and save time instead of using tax payer monies to draft costly legislation.
In fact, history recalls several very, very sucessful zero-tolerance initiatives; Hitler and his exciting new party, the Crucades.. thank god for them, the Spanish Inquisition and garden party, Atilla the Hun and his marvelous sucess, the inscutable Roman empire, Edward the Confessor, gosh… there is just to many to list!. The list does indeed go on and on. 6000 years of zero tolerance campaigns, have evidently taught us nothing. But, indeed history has taught us that these laws are quite nessescary for a government to control society. The most crucial aspect of zero-tolerance is the preservation of the attributes that perpetuates the government iteself and the things it holds as most valuable. Things such as maintaining a society of conforming, tax paying, unquestioningly supportive, constituents who don’t mind the laws constantly changing… just enough to keep them in business. Most of all, they don’t have to work too hard making those really hard decisions.
Sidenote: Can it be possible that the technophobic baby boomer loosers actually are on a witch hunt for drug users and non-conformists? The irony of that is fabulously stupifying… Especially considering that most of them are still are protesting (responsibility anyway) and smoking dope, way back in the garage, behind the mini-van.