Child Abuse

[benos]

I got this in an email and I'll be posting it on the site soon - I thought I'd post it here as well.

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My Dad started beating me with his fist when I was two years old.  He nearly

knocked me out of the high chair with one blow.  My Mom attempted my murder

with poison when I was 10.  Yeah, literally, I survived my childhood.

You want to produce warped people?  Abuse them.  Make them duck when you

raise your hand to wave at them.  Watch and gloat as they meekly wave back.

Claim that abuse is just "teasing," that they made you do it, it's for their

own good, whatever lie sounds good.  Drive them into psychosis.  Use every

gimmick in psychology to warp their minds, to make them defenseless, to

leave them open to your brutality.  Make it stick with them for the rest of

their lives.

Governments are also abusive.  The grossest abuses are not by individuals,

they are by large groups, shielded from any consequence by the bloody badge

of authority.  Pick a barbaric act.  What atrocious act has not been

committed by a government run amuck?

Does it matter if a government is a "daddy" or "mommy" government?  Either

can be brutally abusive.  The problem stems from the conception that the

government needs to be our parents.

Even when we are children, we are sovereign individuals.  As adults, we can

assert that sovereign individuality.  As children, we do what we can to

survive.

Parents are supposed to raise their children to survive, be fruitful and

productive in a potentially hostile environment.  They are not supposed to

use their children as a source to fulfill their wicked cravings.  Children

are not supposed to have memories of physical and psychological pain.

A government which takes on any identity as a parent has gone too far

already.  How can a government "raise" adults?  Isn't the adult already

fully formed?  The only "tool" the government has is the cudgel, and this

"tool" has been wielded throughout history, to horrific effect.

What the abusive parent and the abusive government have in common is hatred.

Both hate their charges, hate them for simply existing.  Both think they

have sovereign right over the lives they are supposed to protect.  They live

to suck the life energy from those who trust them.

We don't need to be beaten or poisoned.  "We don't need no thought control."

We don't need abuse.

-- Brian C. Miller

[bird]

Good post Brian,

Made me hug my kids after I read it..

Anybody who abuses children should get the death penalty...

My kids are my life and everything else comes 2nd.

As far as Governments are concerned that is why we have guns and lots of ammo...

[bountyhunter]

My dad (who was a cop) said the only universal truth is that wife-beaters and child molesters ALWAYS resist arrest..........

[benos]

Within the prison system, where the lowest of the lowest scheme and kill each other, child molesters are judged as the lowest scum of the prison and society.

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