Angry teen takes out wrath on innocent people -- so did he have role model(s)?
Jim Sorrells wrote:
Jeffrey Weise [the teenage gunman at Red Lake High School in Minnesota] was a loner, ostracized by his peers, wore black and trench coats, drew skeletons and skulls and people killing each other, admired Hitler, posted threatening messages on the National Socialist Party neo-Nazi website, was fascinated by zombies, his father committed suicide and his mother was seriously injured in an auto accident, and he wasn't allowed at the school.
And nobody noticed, nobody reached out to him? What does a guy have to do to get some attention around here?
Revrickm comments:
Or, to quote teenagers everywhere, maybe he was just 'bored.' Maybe that's code for 'help' or an expression the fact there's 'water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.' Despite the Peace Corps and other volunteer groups, most kids are not really offered anything very constructive to get involved in. I see the Army, etc. are going to turn up the recruiting program and, of course, kids can always aspire to enter a noble profession like politician, attorney, big-time developer, corporate CEO, or some other kind of 'player.' Maybe it shouldn't be any surprise that kids with with interest and talent in sports might take steroids rather than study hard to become a teacher.
And no wonder Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds are a little put off by politicians lecturing them about being role models for kids.
All that doesn't excuse some kid from shooting ten people at his school, but neither is it 'cool' to bomb millions of people and spend billions of dollars (taken from the mouths of poor children in poverty in our own country) to pay contractors (from a company where some claim the Vice President still 'works' and has a large financial interest in) to rebuild facilities that our military destroyed on his advice and consent, when many of these very facilities are urgently in need of repair and upgrading here at home. Schools and penitentiaries are a disgrace, and due to government cutbacks for everything except the military, colleges, health care, social programs and the public infrastructure are struggling to stay afloat. More tax cuts for the rich and private accounts for Social Security are supposed to 'trickle down' to help everyone (oh yes, we all remember how well that method worked under Reagan or Bush#1). A 'thousand points of light' works only when churches are allowed to proselytize and charitable organizations are allowed to discriminate in their hiring and service policies -- and if those 'lights' aren't powered in some 'blue' state with electric power supplied by an Enron or some other Robin-Hood-in-reverse type of business.
You probably get my drift, just in case you've been on another planet and hadn't noticed any of this over the past few years.
-- Revrickm
Jeffrey Weise [the teenage gunman at Red Lake High School in Minnesota] was a loner, ostracized by his peers, wore black and trench coats, drew skeletons and skulls and people killing each other, admired Hitler, posted threatening messages on the National Socialist Party neo-Nazi website, was fascinated by zombies, his father committed suicide and his mother was seriously injured in an auto accident, and he wasn't allowed at the school.
And nobody noticed, nobody reached out to him? What does a guy have to do to get some attention around here?
Revrickm comments:
Or, to quote teenagers everywhere, maybe he was just 'bored.' Maybe that's code for 'help' or an expression the fact there's 'water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.' Despite the Peace Corps and other volunteer groups, most kids are not really offered anything very constructive to get involved in. I see the Army, etc. are going to turn up the recruiting program and, of course, kids can always aspire to enter a noble profession like politician, attorney, big-time developer, corporate CEO, or some other kind of 'player.' Maybe it shouldn't be any surprise that kids with with interest and talent in sports might take steroids rather than study hard to become a teacher.
And no wonder Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds are a little put off by politicians lecturing them about being role models for kids.
All that doesn't excuse some kid from shooting ten people at his school, but neither is it 'cool' to bomb millions of people and spend billions of dollars (taken from the mouths of poor children in poverty in our own country) to pay contractors (from a company where some claim the Vice President still 'works' and has a large financial interest in) to rebuild facilities that our military destroyed on his advice and consent, when many of these very facilities are urgently in need of repair and upgrading here at home. Schools and penitentiaries are a disgrace, and due to government cutbacks for everything except the military, colleges, health care, social programs and the public infrastructure are struggling to stay afloat. More tax cuts for the rich and private accounts for Social Security are supposed to 'trickle down' to help everyone (oh yes, we all remember how well that method worked under Reagan or Bush#1). A 'thousand points of light' works only when churches are allowed to proselytize and charitable organizations are allowed to discriminate in their hiring and service policies -- and if those 'lights' aren't powered in some 'blue' state with electric power supplied by an Enron or some other Robin-Hood-in-reverse type of business.
You probably get my drift, just in case you've been on another planet and hadn't noticed any of this over the past few years.
-- Revrickm
posted by Rev. Rick Mitchell, PhD at 6:39 PM
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