Brethren, this came in the other day.  I pass it along just for what
it's worth.  Please don't shoot the messenger if you disagree.


A NEW AMERICA                                         (Anon)

Forty years ago when I was a first grade school child guns were as
common as dirt. Many, if not most, adult males had a rifle or shotgun
in the closet or in a rack in an unlocked truck. Many, if not most,
had a .38 revolver in the nightstand drawer near their bed or in the
glove box of the car. You could buy a revolver or even a 20mm
anti-tank rifle through the mail from advertisers who placed ads in
popular magazines.

There were no school yard massacres in those days. In those days the
possession of so much as a Tijuana stag film could get an adult a few
days in the pokey. Booze could not be sold from after midnight
Saturday until Monday morning. Stores closed up by 6 PM on every other
evening, 9 PM on Fridays and Saturdays. No stores were open on Sunday.

The vagrancy laws were enforced, as were the curfew laws for children.
If you spoke a racial slur or derogatory remark about someone's family
you were likely to get a broken nose for your pains. And then get
whipped when you got home and had to explain yourself. Children were
not allowed to talk back to their parents, nor were they allowed to
run like a pack of wild animals through the stores or up and down the
streets. Parents were the authorities you had to answer to. Punishment
was a bar of soap in the mouth for lesser crimes and a belt across the
buttocks for more serious offenses. All adults in the community were
to be obeyed and respected. All adults in the community held
themselves to be responsible for all the children.

Credit was something precious and hard to get, a badge of higher
standing in the community. Bankruptcy was shameful. As was
illegitimate birth. A young man who got a girl pregnant and didn't do
right by her would never get a responsible job in his own town and
would have to spend years proving himself again as trustworthy. Thrift
and virtue, virginity and self-restraint, self-reliance and moral
character were hallmarks of respect and public esteem.

Ministers, school authorities, parents, all firmly believed that they
had a moral responsibility to live and conduct themselves, and hold
others to high standards of moral conduct and good character. They
believed that setting an example for others was a civic obligation.
The badge of authority of adulthood.

There were no schoolyard massacres in those days.

America, since that time you have universalized every form of
pornography and filth. You now have normalized every kind and type of
perversion and deviancy. You have taught and rewarded Moral Relativism
from kindergarten through university for the last four decades. You
have allowed your children to become the wards of the state by
abandoning them to the public schools and turning your teachers into
daycare workers and baby-sitters. You have encouraged and rewarded
your children for remaining in a state of immaturity long into their
adult years by remaining in that state of self-absorbed immaturity
yourself. You have tolerated, and rationalized, and justified
self-indulgence as an enshrined right.

You, America, planted the seeds of wanton greed, lust,
self-glorification, self-righteousness, and arrogance. You have
pacified your military into garbage collectors and traffic cops. You
have militarized your policemen into paramilitary goon squads and
unsupervised spy organizations. You have turned your face away and
allowed priests to molest children and go unpunished. You have allowed
your judges to become Skinner-Ian social experimenters.

You have allowed your leaders to commit flagrant and public crimes and
shouted down and demonized those who would hold them accountable. You
have closed your eyes to blatant criminal activity and acts of war by
your elected representatives so long as your wealth and positions are
not harmed.

You have labored mightily for forty years and defended your choices
against any and all who tried to stop the evil. You have made
yourselves into indentured servants to unlimited desires and enslaved
yourselves to mindless passions. You have elevated the most corrupt to
the highest positions and persecuted those who would try to undo the
horrors.

Now in your advancing years the fruits of your labors have come home
to you. Now the seeds of destruction you sowed, and nurtured, and
defended have flourished and are reaching their appointed harvest.

Why are you now surprised? You have reached the ultimate fulfillment
of all your desires and dreams. Your aspirations have reached
maturity. These are your children America. They are everything you
raised them to be. They are the epitome of everything you slaved for
all these years.

The children who have been performing these hideous acts of evil,
these schoolyard massacres are not nice, normal, "good kids " who
suddenly became deranged, slavering psychotics after touching a gun.
Each and every one of them signaled their intent through their
behavior months, years in advance. Each of them was known to parents,
teachers, police, other children as being twisted, perverse,
dangerous, and blatantly so. Each had a long history of flagrantly
violent and dangerous behavior that was known to everyone they ever
came into contact with.

Where were the adults all those years?

This is your reward for your lifetime's success at sabotaging,
betraying, denying, and overturning a thousand years of law, morality,
religion, and culture. Embrace your legacy, your monstrous offspring.
They are the mirror image of you, their parents and the society you
have reshaped.

For a generation you have fought long and hard to achieve this day,
You have succeeded. Now those other days are gone. Then, children
respected their elders. Parents respected themselves, each other, and
their leaders. America was respected by her friends, and by her
enemies. There were no schoolyard massacres in those days.
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