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2007-04-27 Home Front: Culture Wars
Peggy Noonan: We're Scaring Our Children to Death
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Posted by Mike 2007-04-27 05:33|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 It's a hard world Ms Noonan.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-04-27 06:14||   2007-04-27 06:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember the puppies in "Animal Farm?"

Yeah.
Posted by no mo uro 2007-04-27 07:16||   2007-04-27 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 She has a point. Although perhaps not the one she intends. The fearmongers target the children (and their adult equivalents) precisely because they are susceptible.

Global Warming is a classic example of we can't convince them with rational evidence based argument therefore we will get them them with irrational fears target at their general ignorance of the world.

Children == Liberals == Children

That's pretty much all you need to know to make sense of the modern world.
Posted by phil_b 2007-04-27 07:16||   2007-04-27 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, liberals can't replace their own since they abort themselves out of existence, so they have to come up with a new source of fresh blood.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-04-27 09:34||   2007-04-27 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Well Ms Peggy, you can thank the liberal left and it's media with an attitude of "anything goes" for much of what the kids see and hear today.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-04-27 09:58||   2007-04-27 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 The fearmongers target the children (and their adult equivalents) precisely because they are susceptible.

Remember the '(US) nukes are bad for children and other living things' campaign of the 80s?
Posted by Pappy 2007-04-27 10:24||   2007-04-27 10:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Pappy, I remember the duck and cover drills of the 50s. I also remember growing up convinced that I was going to die (young) in a nuclear blast.
Posted by Rambler">Rambler  2007-04-27 10:35||   2007-04-27 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 The more sinister problem is not an over-abundance of “fear” used as a motivator. It is the constant indoctrination of “victim-hood” for the masses. All the examples that Noonan cites are packaged with someone or something to blame and the insinuation that there will be someone or something to provide a solution. A narcissistic loser sees vindication for his pathetic life by slaughtering scores of unarmed people. He believes that his wretched existence was unfairly thrust upon him. However irrational that may seem to others, he knows so-called “experts” willing to blame “classicism” or “racism” as the cause will openly dissect his narrative. Hundreds of “Young Adults” cower in fear as only one lunatic armed with only two handguns executes dozens of their classmates without any lifting a finger in an attempt of stopping him. They truly are victims of senseless violence and deserve sincere condolences. However offensive as this may be, many of them were programmed to be lemmings by a culture that has spoon-fed them from cradle to premature grave that someone will always be there to protect them. In the end they are added to the growing list of “Victims of Victimization”.
Posted by DepotGuy 2007-04-27 11:39||   2007-04-27 11:39|| Front Page Top

#9 DepotGuy, I wish I'd said that.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-04-27 12:19||   2007-04-27 12:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Here, Peggy, let me fix that for you:

"We're The Liberals are Scaring Our Children to Death"
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2007-04-27 12:54|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2007-04-27 12:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Home Schooling. Turn off the tube. Select the peer group carefully.
Posted by Hupatch Flomolet2475 2007-04-27 13:39||   2007-04-27 13:39|| Front Page Top

#12 DG- Well said, indeed.

How does ONE guy shoot off 170+ rounds, killing 30+ people, without anyone trying to stop him before he took his own life?

With all condolence and sympathy due to the victims at VT and their families, I just can't get my head around that.

My fear is that DG is absolutetly correct. And that does not bode well for our country or humanity.

"There are no victims. There are only volunteers."
Posted by eltoroverde 2007-04-27 13:55||   2007-04-27 13:55|| Front Page Top

#13 eltoroverde, I new one of the victims. She was a lovely young lady looking forward to a carrier in chemical engineering. She was naive about the evil out there. She had no prior experience with violence, hence, she had no idea how to react. I feer we have sat idally by while the "hear no evil, see no evil, don't teach about evil" educational system has brainwashed our progeny. The mindset of "feeling" safe rather than being safe has triumphed in this instance.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-04-27 19:47||   2007-04-27 19:47|| Front Page Top

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