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Date Posted: 00:23:18 09/25/02 Wed
Author: Mike A.
Author Host/IP: syr-24-92-249-138.twcny.rr.com / 24.92.249.138
Subject: I'm sympathetic to the direction of...
In reply to: Grumpy� 's message, "Re: Too Good to be true, depending..." on 18:40:46 09/24/02 Tue

your second sentence. As I note generally in a response following, I think the issue had to do with the enthusiasm the woman exhibited. One swat to get the child's attention but a balled fist and several shots?

I can live with a bit of corporal punishment in measured application, heck, I think discipline in schools vanished when teachers were prohibited from whacking the trouble-maker... But that woman got a little bit carried away.

If the camera had captured one or two swacks on the butt there would have been little or no reason for the operator to call the cops. But the lady went over the top.

I know 'over the top' is in the eye of the beholder but some place between one swat and the last balled fist shot the lady qualified for going over the top, in my opinion.

I am probably to the right of Attila the Hun in most things having to do with the government. Less is too much as far as I'm concerned. But when it comes to children...

I grew up in a small town where, as a child, I became aware that a few of the adult males visited a neighbor. I remember before the visit there would be yelling and crying loud enough for me to hear at night in my bedroom from that neighbor's house. On a few occasions the wife came to our house in an emotional state. I remember the man frightened me. I remember that after the men visited there was no more yelling or crying, and the woman came over to visit. The cops were not involved but, I much later came to believe, the little society I grew up in made it clear that abuse of another was not a thing to be tolerated. I don't know why I thought of that little story in the context ot the woman and the child, or maybe I do. Every now and then some people need a wake-up call. And some need protection from others. I'm not much for calling the cops.

How many times have we read of children returned to abusive parents ending up more abused or worse?

Pogo once opined, "we have met the enemy and they are us." I have no clue how that applies.

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Absolutely correct -- Wilbs, 20:10:51 10/10/02 Thu