Posted on 06/02/2008 6:43:43 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Is it okay to lie to teach a lesson? Is it necessary?
Hope it helps. One of the high schools in my town just lost its FIFTH student this year, fourth to drunk driving.
It’s still lying. Not a good idea to get the police and school administrators in the habit of lying.
Not really news, though.
Raising the drinking age to 21 has been really effective hasn’t it?
MADD has become even more desperate in their neo-prohibition.
> It’s still lying. Not a good idea to get the police and
> school administrators in the habit of lying.
I agree.
Aside from the bolshevik theater aspect of this stunt, it may actually be a crime, since the police and school administration falsely reported deaths.
Maybe we should think about raising the driving age to 21.
Fine line. Biblically, Rahab lied about the whereabouts of the Joshua and Caleb. In times of War we’ve lied, well at the very least “deceived” the enemy to our advantage. Those that hid Jews during the Holocaust lied. I don’t think there’s a clear cut line...and MADD members would tell you they are in a “war” of sorts.
If this is what they’re doing in schools, no wonder I can’t get a correctly spelled and punctuated resume from HS grads these days.
I would sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress - and I'm not a litigious person.
MADD have put themselves on the same moral level as drunk drivers.
They did this when I was in High school, and it worked.
It was a MADD thing, it was a DARE thing. The local police and school faculty had called us into the auditorium and allowed us all to hear the news. Not just the classrooms of the attendees. No one I knew was in the act, but they were all drama students that took part in it.
Yes, it was a lie - but I also recount tales of a friend in the Marines who was told that at the end of basic training, his peers were called into an assembly and told that they were being deployed to a hostile area in Afghanistan because many US soldiers had died. It was a lie, and it was told to test and prepare them for the brevity of the situation.
In my class, we had no drinking deaths. The act was sobering, and my area also routinely crashes cars to show the damage, and flat-beds the cars to the school to show the damage. They are left on school grounds for everyone to see, complete with glass and sharp steel. I think that even outside of Drinking, all young people should see this demonstration and be reminded that no one is indestructible.
I hope tomorrow they study the three R’s
or maybe there is a session on ‘raising awareness’ for something else
I know i could have done much better if my ‘awareness’ had been raised about polar bears and spotted owls and diversity and .......
My hometown in Southern Oregon has had more than one funeral in the gym of youngsters that perished to drunk driving. In one case a young fellow had his “buddies” come to his house and get him out of bed to go riding. He was sobber but his “friends” were drunk and they were driving until they missed a curve and slammed into a tree killing him instantly.
And the libs complain when Pro lifers show accurate photographs of aborted babies and sonograms of babies in their mothers’ wombs during protests!
This stuff is nothing new.
Our high school used to have students “die”. Every 15 minutes (or what ever the time was way back when) one student would don a black T-shirt and gray make-up and was “dead”. Couldn’t speak or interact with anyone for the remainder of the day. Then they would do the reinactment at assembly later in the day. That was 20 years ago.
MADD libeled and slandered their own founder by making up a DUI story about her. Why is this a surprise?
Cruel hoax, IMHO. Those MADD Hags are beyond the pale.
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