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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
- In-Reply-To: pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.003059.23712@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:30:59 GMT
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- In article <Bzo279.JFC@unix.amherst.edu>, pdchapin@unix (PAUL D CHAPIN) writes:
- >: I take it, then, that you've missed all the news reports on children
- >: turning their parents in, usually for drug abuse, sometimes for other things?
- >
- >That wasn't the claim. The claim was that they were "trained". This implies
- >a program of instruction. That's plain silly.
-
- "Silly" is not quite the word I would use. Perhaps "fascist" or
- "totalitarian". A quote from Message-ID <1gqi26INN1vk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>:
-
- From: craig@mainstream.com (Craig Peterson)
- Subject: kids turning in their parents
- To: home-ed-politics@mainstream.com (Multiple recipients of list)
-
- [ .. ]
-
- "I told the police over the phone and in person that I wanted my
- parents to get help," Darrin says. "I thought the police would come
- and get the drugs and tell them that drugs are wrong. They never said
- that they would arrest them. It didn't say that in the video.
-
- "The police officer held me by the shoulder and made me watch them put
- handcuffs on my mom and dad and put them in the police car," he adds.
- "The last thing my mom said to me was not to worry, that it was not my
- fault, that she was sorry and that she loved me.
-
- "I always thought police were honest and told the truth. But in
- court, I heard them tell the judge that I wanted my mom and dad
- arrested. This is a lie. I did not tell them that."
-
- Darrin sys he believes drugs are wrong and will never do them, but he
- will never call 911 again either.
-
- "I just don't want to hurt anybody again," he says.
-