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Showing Original Post only (View all)Tea Party Group Blames Connecticut Shooting On Teachers, Unions, And Sex [View all]
By Jeff Spross on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:35 pm
A piece posted to the Tea Party Nation website yesterday, and sent to the groups members in an email from TPN head Judson Phillips, blamed the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on teachers, unions, bureaucracy, and the presence of sex in popular culture. In a lengthy screed thats essentially a round-up of every major cultural and policy grievance the American right holds with the rest of the country, author Timothy Birdnow cited concerns about the mental health of shooter Adam Lanza, the lack of spanking in schools, and the new movie Django Unchained among other things as evidence that American popular culture has made murder, rape, mayhem, hatred, and violence cool.
He then went on to recommend a number of interesting solutions, including a lamentation that George Zimmerman was not guarding Sandy Hook Elementary School:
Homeschool. Take away the power of the radicals in the classrooms. Makes your kids safer, too.
Back Right to Work legislation for the public sector. Teachers unions have helped cement much of this in place. As long as we have group think in the classrooms we will never see the end of this. ...
Work to devolve power back to the parents, the local officials, and the communities. A society that is top-down will inevitably lead to alienation of the sort we have seen here. This young man was twenty years old, and his actions were neither spurious nor random. As an FBI profiler said on television last night, he undoubtedly felt powerless and sought to remedy that. Why does a twenty year old feel powerless? He could leave his mothers home at any time at his age. He feels powerless because he has lived in an over-bureaucratized society, one run ultimately from a far-away central location. ...
Restrict the sex in movies, television, on the internet. There is a reason why young people commit these sorts of crimes, and sex plays no small part. Their passions are eternally inflamed, and they wander the Earth with no outlet for their overstimulated glands. ....
Support the creation of local organizations to act as neighborhood watch for schools. Had George Zimmerman been at the front door instead of some mechanical card reader those children would still be alive. Perhaps its time we start asking for volunteers to protect our children. It will require security checks, but isnt that worth it? This dovetails with the union problem; the unions will fight this measure tooth-and-nail.
Back Right to Work legislation for the public sector. Teachers unions have helped cement much of this in place. As long as we have group think in the classrooms we will never see the end of this. ...
Work to devolve power back to the parents, the local officials, and the communities. A society that is top-down will inevitably lead to alienation of the sort we have seen here. This young man was twenty years old, and his actions were neither spurious nor random. As an FBI profiler said on television last night, he undoubtedly felt powerless and sought to remedy that. Why does a twenty year old feel powerless? He could leave his mothers home at any time at his age. He feels powerless because he has lived in an over-bureaucratized society, one run ultimately from a far-away central location. ...
Restrict the sex in movies, television, on the internet. There is a reason why young people commit these sorts of crimes, and sex plays no small part. Their passions are eternally inflamed, and they wander the Earth with no outlet for their overstimulated glands. ....
Support the creation of local organizations to act as neighborhood watch for schools. Had George Zimmerman been at the front door instead of some mechanical card reader those children would still be alive. Perhaps its time we start asking for volunteers to protect our children. It will require security checks, but isnt that worth it? This dovetails with the union problem; the unions will fight this measure tooth-and-nail.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/17/1346491/tea-party-group-attributes-connecticut-shooting-to-teachers-unions-and-sex/
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Tea Party Group Blames Connecticut Shooting On Teachers, Unions, And Sex [View all]
DonViejo
Dec 2012
OP
Two "radicals in the classroom" saved the lives of helpless innocent children.
no_hypocrisy
Dec 2012
#3
George Zimmerman wouldn't have stopped the shooter - he was white after all.
yellowcanine
Dec 2012
#9