“They didn’t have to die.” Well no crap.
Can we talk here? I mean, who are these idiots? Not the people in the video. Who are the people who think that this is an effective anti-violence effort? Here we have the spectacle of a bunch of associate victims (and one actual victim) whining about how painful their loss is in the vain hope that the people who might cause more will be moved to “Stop, Think, and Let It Go™”
I’ll bet the people who dreamt this crap up are the same people who pissed all over Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign. They went on and on about how people couldn’t “Just Say No.” Now these same fools are trying to emotionally manipulate the psychopaths that commit the vast majority of the violent crime. They are so dumb that instead of researching who it is that they are trying to reach, they sat down at a table and asked themselves “If murderers were just like you and me, how would we change their lives in a public service announcement?”
Here’s what I would like to see. I would like to see this video and the idiots who wrote, directed, produced and edited it taken to Central Prison in Raleigh. I want them to show this video to everyone there who was convicted of murder, manslaughter, assault with a deadly weapon, or any other crime of personal violence. Then I want the people involved in this stupid video to be forced to sit there while the inmates told them exactly how idiotic their public service announcement really was. I want a Siskel and Ebert Scared Straight episode.
Maybe then we can stop pretending that criminals are just like you and me. Maybe then these idiots would stop their emotional masturbation and focus on things that might actually work.
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ReplyDeleteTypical Blood Dancing.
ReplyDeleteThey think just tears and pleas accomplish things.
Oh and playing John Lennon's "Imagine" might help too.
Was any tax money involved in this? If not, let them moan and cry. It's their time and money.
ReplyDeleteAt least they didn't outright blame GUNS.
How do you find these things?
@Chuck: absolutely wrong. This video is a window into the liberal world view that believes that the only reason criminals exist is that they haven't been properly socialized. They imagine that they can reach the hardened criminals who.commit murder and aggravated assault by playing on their emotions. They have no real human feeling else they wouldn't view the rest of us as objects, to be robbed, raped, and murdered for their pleasure.
ReplyDeleteFailing to recognize this fundamental fact about criminals leads to all sorts of wrong "solutions" being proposed. If the criminals are just like us, then we are just lile them. Therefore we need to be disarmed just as much as the thugs do.
This view must be exposed and ridiculed as often as possible until people get the message. There is a qualitative difference in how decent people and criminals see what we would call "our fellow man."
I saw this in japete's Twitter feed.
When you look at the bigger picture, I have to agree.
ReplyDeleteI'm putting that in my blog. Keep up the good work.
Emotional masturbation that was great it made me laugh thanks sean.
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I've had the opportunity to contribute to the "proper socialization" of a couple of kids. They grow up in an atmosphere and with the philosophy that if anyone transgresses, it's a matter of pride, identity, whatever, that they feel compelled to one-up on them, which is in turn escalated. It's the philosophy of a child, which is unable to respond to upset with anything but revenge. They're not being grown out of it. Their parents, their role models, were allowed to fail in growing up, and are now incapable of providing any positive guidance. My philosophy in approaching this is, that if someone's being an asshole to you, that doesn't make it time for a "who's the biggest asshole" contest; of course I have to word it more gently.
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