What is wrong with people - part 2?

And then there is this out of Florida http://tinyurl.com/dozur. A judge ruled that a 13 year old girl, let me repeat this a 13 year old girl (who was a chronic run away) had the right to terminate the life of a baby that she back pregnant with during a consentual sexual relationship. What is the reason for this abortion, you might ask? She does not want to carry the baby to term. Regardless of what the mainstream media tells you, abortion - as a form of birth control - IS practiced in this country. There is no "risk to the mothers health", no rape, no incest none of the "normal" (or so we are told) reasons for this child to want an abortion. Simply put, she did not want to suffer the consequences (having a baby) of her actions (having sex) and the judge in Florida says that it is her right to be irresponsible!!!!!

Again, what is wrong I ask rhetorically? Simply put, people are no longer responsible for their actions and until they are held responsible for their actions, we are going to be in dire trouble.

What is wrong with people today?

This is a rhetorical question for I can tell you what is wrong. It is in the body of the story here http://tinyurl.com/cylt9. A grandmother in San Antonio is convicted of starving her grandchild to death and it is the governments fault according to the woman's defense attorney. The worse part of this story....apparently the child's parents and extended family aided grandma in starving the 4 year old child.

Then in Chicago, you have a man who brutally stabbed his daughter and her friend to death for a supposed disciplinary violation http://tinyurl.com/e34zy . His excuse was that the girl refused to come home. This father was recently released from jail. He was in jail because he violated his probation after he was sentenced for attacking the mother of the dead child with a chainsaw!

When are we going to quit excusing bad behavior in people? When are we going to start holding people accountable for their actions? How many more of our precious children are going to have to suffer (like Jessica Lundsford) because we are coddling the murders and rapists that are currently walking among us? We have to start protecting our children! Locking away sex offenders and violent domestic offenders for life is a good start. Taking responsibility for our own actions - and holding others responsible for theirs is an even better second step!

"OK, Hit the Snooze...just another 7 Minutes...

The recent Marine firefight, part of Operation Matador, is hard fought. And very dangerous. The enemy has given the Marines a style of fighting they've never seen before. Ever. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051000221.html
The upshot is that most of the fighters are now no longer angry and radical Baathists but foreign fighters. Intelligence reports that they pour over the border from Syria. The talk is now about securing the Iraqi-Syrian border. Hugh Hewitt had a number of segments on Operation Matador and the closing of the Syrian border for the security of the American forces.
Hhhmmmm....we can close the Iraqi-Syrian border for security.
And the Mexican border? For security?
Or perhpas we should we re-set the snooze for 15 minutes?

Uh, Mr. President, Stop Hitting the Snooze Alarm...

Just got this from a friend newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/5/9/132244.shtml .
As I read down the article, I noticed that Montgomery County, Maryland was mentioned...again (see the Friday and yesterday's post).
But, what prompts me to write is a tendency I've seen over the past 20 years with the Federal government, and the press plays a significant part. The thought came again to the fore when President Bush used the term "vigilantes" to describe the participants in Minuteman Project in Arizona (www.minutemanproject.com/ ). First, look up the term vigilante. The definition is a member of a vigilance committee. The history of the vigilance committees was to watch over a community where there was no legally established method of jurisprudence. The vigilance committee was born out of frustration and the lack, or in many cases, the unwillingness of the local constabulary and courts to protect citizens and their property. Movies and TV have given the term vigilante a very negative meaning. Were all vigilant committees positive? "All power corrupts..." So, the answer is no. There are the examples that the media glorifies. That being said, the vigilance committee came out a need that government was not addressing (basically, the prime reason for existence of government- to protect the rights of its citizens to enjoy their lives and property, the latter being an extension of the former [read Bastiat kids, just as Uncle Amendment X has told you to do!
www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm ]).
So, the question I ask is this: What drove these men and women of the Minutemen Project, all United States citizens, to use their time, money and other resources to expose themselves to possible danger and death on a hostile border? They could easily have spent this time with their families, at their jobs. But they chose to volunteer to protect their families by standing watch on a border that George Bush seems unwilling to protect. They finally felt driven to do something that the government is absolutely unwilling to do.
Tom Clancy, the author, is considered a military expert. He has been called to testify before Congress as an expert witness. I was introduced to him 10 years ago by a friend of mine. I'm not a fiction reader, but reading "Debt of Honor" and I was hooked.
Clancy's recent book is "Teeth of the Tiger" and combines Columbian drug lords, radical Islamists, the Mexican border and a co-ordinated attack on America. There is evidence that Middle Eastern men are smuggled across the border for $50,000-per man. Most people are charged $1,000 or so by the coyotes. So, somebody REALLY wants Middle Easterners in America. Middle Easterners and others are referred to as OTM-other than Mexicans. And OTM's account for about 25% of all illegal crossings.
Vigilantes, Mr. President?
I think not at all.

"WE Know Best..."

I just re-read Lady Liberty's blog from Friday. It got me to thinking back about 30 years ago. I was Chairman of the Extension Classes Student Board at the University of Minnesota (in effect I was the Class President for all Extension Students at the U). Extension classes were (and probably still are) heavily attended by adults who were intent on getting their degree, however, were also working full time. One of the things we, and my predecessors, had lobbied for for some time were classes and graduate degree programs from the Graduate School, full credits as were the Day School classes. We asked for nothing to be cut. We wanted the same curriculum, content, books, requirements-an exact copy of the Day School classes, except taught in the evenings and/or Saturday (many classes with 5 credits were taught two days of the week. Since the U has gone to a full semester program instead of quarters and semesters, I don't know how those classes are taught, or the conversion from quarter to semester credits). Well, the ivory tower Graduate School opposed us at every, and I mean every juncture. Three of us had a much worked for meeting with C. Peter McGrath, President of the University. We wanted to put our case before him. Well, we walked into the meeting, and there was a representative from the Graduate School talking to President McGrath. And the Grad School representative didn't leave, but stayed for OUR meeting. We were SO disappointed. The establishment was talking. No, they were screaming!
What all this has boiled down to was a comment by Dean Woods back in 1975. Dean Woods was an older man who had been at the University for a long time. He had great wit and wisdom.
At one of our meetings, he said "I'd hate to be one of those Graduate School deans or administrators and tell you people, who are all taxpayers that pay their salaries, that you are not going to be treated the same as day school students."
Seems that the parents in Montgomery County Maryland grabbed their pitchforks and torches and stormed the castle.
Good for them. What is sad and of note is that they had to go to court to do it.
Sounds like they need to re-align the School Board there in Montgomery County.
Wonder if any of them know Dean Woods?