Posted on 03/23/2005 12:00:12 PM PST by areafiftyone
Is there never a time to question? In this case, Terri isn't even accused of doing anything wrong, and the children are only accused of bringin water to someone thirsty. Don't you think someone would stop and say, "Chief, why are we barring children from bringing water to a law-abiding thirsty person?"
I'll bet they don't get the death penalty.
I don't know what Ed. psych. texts you are using in your pursuit of a teaching degree, but I would suggest you read more than the standard texts.
Children are perfectly capable of making moral decisions at an early age. Have you ever raised any children? Even a 3 year-old knows when she is lying.
Piaget is a fraud.
"protesting the death of innocent Iraqis", eh? Very clever of you but I believe the protests have been against the entire war. The left didn't say, "The war is just but we're protesting the sloppiness."
No one on either side of the American political spectrum wants to see "innocent Iraqis" killed. America went to war to topple their mayhem-exporting dictator on behalf of the "innocent Iraqis."
Many brave Americans have given their lives to make others free and ensure our own safety after our country was attacked.
Just because you do not understand the principle in this issue doesn't mean that these young children do not.
They know instinctively that it is wrong to starve someone and deny them water.
What happened to you that you can't understand or care?
The crime was tresspassing, not carrying water.
"So...you don't have a problem with children of liberal parents attending anti-war/anti-Bush rallies?"
I'm not gona fall into the "gotcha" trap you're trying to set me up for. There is no hypocristy in what I say.
I'm against indoctrination on EITHER side.
But I will say that it is awfully cynical to just automatically assume these kids were forced...FORCED to go and do this as some kind of repugnant publicity stunt.
Not ALL of the youth are as bad or as self absorbed as what the MSM leads us to believe.
As I told Long Cut. I have kids from 15 down to 7.
I'm amazed all the time at the things they come up with on their own.
And to follow your line of reasoning that if kids are at a rally like that they muct have been forced to do that and couldn't possibly have felt the urge to do this on thei own because "they're minors", does that de-legitamize someone like young Kyle Williams who writes the "Veritas" column at World NEt Daily? He's a published conservative author as well...and he's only 14. I've ben reading his column for 2 years?
But then I guess he was forced into doing all of that by HIS parents too huh? I mean after all he IS just a minor right?
Sickening, just downright sickening.
At work today, I had to explain Terri's situation to a lady who is very active in a local ministry. She was almost clueless about her situation, and said she had been under the impression that Terri was hooked up to all kinds of life-support. Believe me, I explained some key points to her, in a very nice way.
WE CAN BLAME THE MSM FOR ALL THE MIS-INFORMATION OUT THERE!
No, that's apparently reserved for innocent, disabled women.
I simply cannot believe this is happening in this country.
Yep, shirt tucked in, they look very homeschooled.
That's the great thing about homeschool, you can go on field trips whenever.
And when liberals use their children to further their agendas, we call THEM "unfit parents." It's nice to know that some homeschooled children are being taught it's ok to break the law, sometimes.
This will be a big issue in the Congressional elections in 2006. Good people are disgusted with all these fat well-fed politicians who will not take a stand against starving Terri to death.
That includes all those absent from the vote last weekend, as well as those who opposed intervention.
Prolife Christians, prolife Jews, Evangelicals and prolife Catholics will all band together on this issue.
I'm not sure the kids were used....
No doubt there are some who believe children should be arrested for trying to give water to someone being murdered via forced dehydration and starvation.
No doubt their only argument is, "It's the law."
But moral law trumps human law.
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