Guilt and Innocence

[Geee]

American Spectator:

During the interminable days of baseball's All Star break came news of Louis Freeh's report on Penn State's involvement with the heinous crimes of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. It seems that Joe Paterno, the once-beloved coach of the Nittany Lions, knew for years about Sandusky's crimes and did little or nothing to stop them. Many have called for the NCAA to invoke the so-called death penalty on the school's football program, but the loudest cries have come from those who want to "tear down that statue" of Paterno that stands outside of Beaver Stadium on campus; an empty and silly gesture, typical of those who strain at gnats and swallow camels.

In the wake of the Penn State mess, the unanimous war cry across the nation has been: "We have a moral responsibility to protect our kids; we must preserve the innocence of our children!" Are they kidding? Can they be serious? How can our children be innocent or protected in a country that, rather than defining deviancy down, has defined deviancy up; up to the level of not only acceptance, but approval.

In modern America, we are often lectured on certain aspects of Christianity that conform themselves to the liberal mindset; their favorite being: judge not lest ye be judged. As a consequence, we are constantly urged to forgive thieves, murderers, drug addicts and any manner of societal reprobates usually because their crimes are explained away as being "society's fault." But in the case of the real abuse of our children, this is most certainly the truth.

It is precisely those in power who are heaping the worst sort of abuse on our children; who are creating the perverse, sexual environment where "anything goes," and steeping our children in its ways. For every Jerry Sandusky, there are thousands of liberal bureaucrats who have invaded our public education system to teach our kids about the functions of sexual organs long before these poor babes will develop them; to believe that any and all sexual practices are not only okay, but healthy -- our own U.S. Surgeon General told them so -- and to prepare them for what they think it truly means to be an American: a godless, dumbed-down, sexual performer.

And it's hard not to assign some blame to their parents -- although they have been raised a similar environment -- who not only expose their kids to the foul air of modern Hollywood, but force them to wallow in it right alongside them. So twisted has our culture evolved, that to watch an old movie or TV show where a kindly old gent sits a child on his knee, now conjures up disturbing mental images in our kids. Can this have happened in only a generation or two? Sadly, it has.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

And it's hard not to assign some blame to their parents -- although they have been raised a similar environment -- who not only expose their kids to the foul air of modern Hollywood, but force them to wallow in it right alongside them. So twisted has our culture evolved, that to watch an old movie or TV show where a kindly old gent sits a child on his knee, now conjures up disturbing mental images in our kids.

 

 

Today you have to be so careful around children, particularly if you a man. Don't look to long, don't be too friendly, always make sure another adult is around to "keep an eye on you."...you just in case, when thou walkest thou a park/playground thou shalt lookest neither to the left nor the right, thou shalt not smile lest peoplelook at you strangly.

 

here endth rant #729,226.

[Pepper]

@Valin

 

You are on target. That is as good as rant #623,416.

[Valin]

@Valin

 

You are on target. That is as good as rant #623,416.

 

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