Many fellow news junkies have read about the school shooting in Tennessee where a kid killed an assistant principal and gravely wounded another assistant principal and the principal.
My response to it is sadness of course, and I condemn the killing/ wounding utterly. However, throw in some school beatings by principals such as what I suffered in Franklin, Tennessee and you get an explosive mix: every action has an equal and opposite reaction, sometimes a violent reaction.
These pigs beat me with a 2 foot wooden paddle that had holes in it for less wind resistance while I grabbed my ankles so that no ass-meat could impede the blows.
These pigs still do this shit in America.
Children considering doing a copycat, I say: don’t be a coward, fight them in a way that will make a difference, get involved in politics and fight your whole life. Don’t lower yourself to their pathetic, violent level. You have your whole lives, don’t waste it on their ilk.
(I recognize that these principals could be liberal, great people, however, my principals were not great at all.)
Why are my fellow Southerners so fascist, so brutal, so backward? Tradition?
Nah.
It has to do with power and ignorance.
It has to do with religious fanaticism.
They want the power to beat, torture, maim, per Old Testament biblical acquiescence.
Religious zealot politicians and their paramilitary agents (prison guards) employ it everyday in American prisons, and of course international prisons, using torture and violence as a despicable tool, using inmates to exact vengeance that they can’t exact in society. The prisoner gets some fringe benefit for doing the deed later on… he’s in prison for life anyway, so why not?
Hitleresque.
This mentality has gone national under George W. Bush and Republicans. The Democrats were somewhat of a firewall but they tried to stay in power by continuing the politics/ money game, and are only now clawing there way out of that hole.
Politics are waged locally, so once that firewall got removed, voila! you get Abu Graib, covert CIA torture prisons, Iraq, chemical weapons use by America, outing CIA covert agents, etc. etc. etc. Brownshirt fascism straight and simple.
To the guy who wrote the DKos diary criticising those who criticize organized religion: wake up to reality dude and wake up to the inherent oligarchic fascism inherent in organized religion.
