It occurs to me that society has been restructured so that "the authorities" are the only ones permitted to fix many sorts of commonly-encountered problems which individual citizens used to be able to take care of themselves. Like spanking a spoiled 5 year old child instead of charging her with a felony. Further, said authorities have great and arbitrary powers to fix things however they want. Combine this regular dependence on arbitrary authority with an Orwellian database of Good Citizens and Troublemakers in the hands of that authority and what have you got? A cowed citizenry, to say the least. bd On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Tim May wrote:
At 6:13 AM -0800 2/21/98, William H. Geiger III wrote:
Well you have definatly jumped off the deep end on this one Tim. If we were talking a teenager going out of control then I would agree with you. A 5 year old though??
If a teacher can't defend herself, legally and professionally, from children biting and throwing chairs, the cops have to be called.
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