Teaching Children To Be Thieves And Snitches For The State
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 10 months ago
Via Wirecutter.
Just like in Nazi Germany in the Hitler youth and in communist Soviet Union under the Bolsheviks.
This is a dated video, but it goes to show exactly the thinking of the controllers even a few years ago. It hasn’t gotten better since then.
Who owns your children? Careful now, there is only correct answer, and the test is now, not later.
@Fred,
God.
Amen.
[…] There are so many wrong lessons here I hardly know where to start. There's a kid who checks that his mom is peacefully reading a book, then goes upstairs to (presumably) her room and opens her chest of drawers to find a gun (very much not safely stored). Without checking whether it is loaded or if a round is in the chamber or the condition of the safety if the gun has one, he puts it into his backpack without a holster or other protective covering and takes it to school with him before pulling it out of his backpack and putting it on the teacher's desk and asking the teacher to get rid of it because "he doesn't want to have a gun in the house."Leaving aside the many insanely unsafe gun handling practices in this propaganda video, he's stealing a gun from his parents and taking it to school in order to turn it in to someone who (just based on profession!) likely has no idea how to handle it safely or dispose of it legally. Not to mention the school itself is a gun free zone. So. How many laws did this kid violate?1) Felony theft of a firearm. Most gun felonies are 10 year federal crimes.2) Gun-Free School Zone laws. $10,000 fine and 5 years.3) Carrying concealed without a license, depending on state laws.4) Illegal transfer of a firearm without a background check, depending on state laws.5) The teacher may be liable for receiving stolen property.6) Arguably reckless endangerment of the students and teacher, brandishing, etc.7) Aside from the above, the student will undoubtedly be immediately expelled.In addition his mom (and/or dad, who is never shown) will be vulnerable to criminal attack and may get in trouble for their unsafe storage. If either of the parents are police officers, military, or security, the gun may not even be theirs — meaning they are in trouble with their jobs, and may be legally charged or fired.This video is stupid propaganda encouraging kids to do things that will get them in serious legal trouble even if they do not accidentally hurt themselves or those around them.Hat to to the Captain for the video. […]
That video’s been posted multiple times over the past several years, and picked apart each time:
– The message: “Trust your teachers more than your parents,” and why that’s a bad idea on many levels.
– Also, “It’s OK to bring a gun to school if you’re going to give it to a teacher.” Wrong.
– “Can you take this away? I don’t feel safe with it in the house.” Sure, because if you don’t feel safe with it around, why would you just unload (no pun intended) that unsafe feeling on your poor teacher?
– And where in Scripture or the Constitution is enumerated the “right to feel safe”? Which chapter and verse is that? Which amendment?
(As an aside, why the @#$% was he going through his mother’s dresser drawers? The familiarity — that he knew right where to find the gun — shows that wasn’t his first time.)
In the real world, the kid would be arrested and charged with multiple federal felonies. Violation of “gun-free school zones”. Theft. Unlawful use of a weapon (brandishing in front of the teacher, causing her fear). Trafficking in stolen firearms.
And that’s nothing compared with what the teacher would face if she accepted it.
The kid also has no idea about real gun safety, throwing his booger hook on the bang switch immediately after removing it from the drawer (pause it at ~0:26 and look close: his index finger is inside the trigger guard).
It’s a terrible video in every way. So expect it to resurface every so often as “proof” of why gun owners are awful people.
‘With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother — it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All of their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak — “child hero” was the phrase generally used — had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police.’