Subject: Progress?: 1963 vs 2006
1963 vs 2006
Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.
1963 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.
2006 - School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
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Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1963 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
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Scenario: Little Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1963 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.
2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.
1963 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
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Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.
1963 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.
1963 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.
2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.
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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1963: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by ultra-liberals. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can't speak English.
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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1963 - Ants die.
2006 - ATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
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Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary, who hugs Johnny to comfort him.
1963 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.
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And this is what we call progress?
2007-07-19 16:54:14 · 5 answers · asked by jim c 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
holy shitt man this is so true but what can we do about it not a god darn thing unless well you wanna be called a mind felon or a political dissident and a possible threat to national security or worse yet an internet terrorist
2007-07-19 17:05:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow good list and very true
1963 - Guy goes to work pushing a broom - makes enough to buy a 12 pack on fridays has 3 kids a reasonable morgadge which he expects to pay off and retire
2006 - The guy pushing a broom is divorced and lives in a shack and visits the food bank as often as he is allowed
Sooner or later he gives up and kills himself - never does get to retire - Police blame mental health issues as the cause and the lib's ask for subsidized anti pshcotics for everyone
The con's want to revive him so he can finish out the last 2 weeks becuase he owed the company notice before a self induced death
2007-07-19 18:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow.... Sad but true...good comparisons...
I grew up in the 80's so I'm in the middle of all this, but I totally would go back in time to visit those days.
I know around my house, there was nothing wrong with a good spanking, when it was deserved.... In todays world, kids are too quick to jump on the whole "abuse" wagon instead of look at it from their parents view....that's how they were raised and they turned out fine, if you're bad, you deserve to know you were wrong in some way. I'm not saying you should beat your kids to try to get a point across but what's wrong with a good spanking?? Nothing bad ever came out of a little singing rear... this said from one who knew it well lol
I've always been told I was born in the wrong time era... born in '80, loved the 50's-60's music, and todays too, but things were simple back then, now it's too much about what you can get from somebody for free.
2007-07-22 16:52:56 · answer #3 · answered by jessicadiamond_4einc 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jim C you are right on the money, I'll take the good old days anytime. I think the kids of today would prefer them also if they had a choice and lived them , that is if they could take their I-Pods and Cell Phones along. You made a very good compression. I could go on and on , anyway good comparison .
2007-07-19 17:16:17 · answer #4 · answered by johnnybegood 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
should bring back whipping
2007-07-21 16:57:29 · answer #5 · answered by tm41170 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋