When Enough is Enough

In the current world of political correctness, and law suits, and cops and prosecutors meddling in where they shouldn’t, and the ACLU ready to jump in, there are a group of ungrudging individuals running around unbridled. The system won’t let parents effectively raise their children, then the same system can’t rehabilitate the grown up misfits this ideology has produced. The same system will repeatedly unleash repeated offenders back into mainstream society to……..repeat again. The good constantly take and take unsolicited attacks because the bad keep getting off the hook. The lunch money bully has evolved as the modern day adolescent toting assault rifles terrorizing malls, workplaces, and of all places, home and church. This sort of outcome is bred and fostered I believe by a failure to address and stop it in it’s infancy. If one knows up front the plane won’t fly, they won’t get on it.

Consider a recent school incident my 8 year old daughter innocently became a victim of. It seems there was a clique of 4 th graders that felt she wasn’t worthy enough to play with their self appointed set. My unassuming easy going little girl insisted upon trying to make some friends with this bujoir set. Well the first time she attempted, she was greeted by a ball thrown in her face. My little one responded by retreating to the outer parameters of the midget baby gang to nurse her wounded face. (Mommy and daddy and the political correct book says “no violence”) Also her friends say snitching isn’t cool (she never told the teacher because that would have thwarted her chances even further of joining the clique). But she did tell mommy and daddy. Now mommy is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches and weighs in at about a buck fifteen, and has a lioness mentality when it comes to protecting her young. (I’ve seen unassuming kids get the message real quick when the disrespectful pressed an issue with this lady). Scared the hell out of me to watch! Hey sweetie! You can’t grab 9 year olds by their collar…….ah hell.

It appeared her little friends didn’t get the message the first time because three days later one of the little boys hit her in the face with a ball again. This time she did tell the teacher and I think the teacher followed up. I do know mom this time was recruiting the rest of the lionesses and warming up in the bullpen to square off with these people’s parents, and I have to admit, dad was letting mom off the chain and backing her play this time because enough’s enough. We also had another discussion with our prized cub, and reviewed some defense and survival skills necessary when you are away from the den. I think the conversation mom had with the teacher must’ve woke everyone up because the problem to this point appears to have cleared up. But my point is, suppose it didn’t, is my little girl supposed to remain a punching bag the duration of the school year, or wake up the sleeping bullies by knocking the snot out of one of them? I vote the latter. It only takes one stand to establish where you stand, and if the position is firm and rooted, few will challenge.

Now before the ACLU members and you timeout types chime in, hold on a minute and consider this. Back in the day when kids settled disputes with playground fistfights, and bar fights were just that, bar fights, there were no escalating murder rates in our cities. People (especially little ones) learned respect real fast, because it wasn’t against the law to get your butt whipped at home or in the street if you were so inclined to do so. If you fought and lost, hats off to the winner and they earned their respect. Everyone lived to see another day. And in the grown up world, every one had access to weapons (no gun bans that only law abiding citizens obeyed) so it was less likely someone would come back with a weapon because there was no guarantee they were not going to be confronted with more of the same. See today, violence and disrespect has run amok because even at an early age the bad guys know on the average there won’t be any retaliation. No price to pay. You see them all the time………. the prominent fore-headed jerk in his red corvette who cuts you off and then gives you the finger, the playground bully that pushes little girls down and throws sand in their hair, the spouse that physically and verbally abuses, the coworker that thinks nothing of forcing arrogance without regard. What’s the reward (that’s what it is) for a murder rap? Three hots and cot, education, free cable, weight training, no job, and if you’re really good at playing your cards a free out.

What has happened is we’ve evolved into a culture of unfounded tolerance, debilitating and obscure rationalizations.
I actually heard a guest on a radio talk show state lead paint being a possible reason for the escalating murder rate in Baltimore MD. I haven’t seen any paint buckets with running around with guns. Then there is that age old, one parent in the household BS. I’ve seen people without any parents in the household figure out right from wrong and grow up to be respectful contributing adults to society. The so called experts and PHDs keep feeding us these contradictory impudent assessments – “he’s that way because his father called him stupid when he was two”
“The mother figure worked all the time so that’s why her child is aggressive to the point of violence.” “He played with his sister’s dolls, that why he’s a rapist”. Then there is ADD, While a perfectly reputable reason for some children’s inability to focus and retain as well as explain abnormal behavior problems in some, I am convinced this is one the experts use when all else fails, and I’m sorry, it’s not all ways the case.

Here is a quote from an article written by Chris Jones in Esquire Magazine “I would submit, Your Honor, that if someone is doing something demonstrably asinine, and I ask them to stop it, please, and they say, “Make us,” they’ve entered a binding oral contract whereby I am permitted, even obligated, to try to make them.”

Now I’m by no means advocating a violent or barbaric society, or even teaching violent responses when common sense and maturity can prevail. Most humans handle controversy and the run of the mill idiot just fine without physical or mental confrontation. However there are those that when intent on invading us physically have to be taught………..”I’m not the one” and “Today is not the Day”.

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