Thank you Jeff, for putting into words what I have felt for so long. What Brokaw calls the Greatest Generation will never be repeated and it will be ourr fault.

Brilliant essay! But it scares the crap out of me. I found you yesterday via Instapundit and now I'm hooked.

I can't believe you are defending kids who made terroristic threats against another boy. What hypocrisy.

I was tempted to make the following my "Quote of the day" but hadn't read your post yet. It will show up tomorrow:

I thought the whole idea of "zero-tolerance" was to show that the problem was so serious that intelligence and common sense would not be allowed in the implementation of policy. This serves to give a valuable lesson to students -- when something is really serious, you must make sure not to think.

Fritz Sands
4/15/99 2:36 PM
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Regarding zero tolerance gun policies at schools resulting in suspending kids for tiny toy guns.

I hope you are wrong, too, Jeff, but I completely agree with your opinion. Besides tort reform (real tort reform, as in killing the trial lawyers, not whatever wimp-ass proposal Bush may come out with), the other solution is home schooling. It's a widely-growing trend.

The poster Greg above must be another government schooled moron under 30 (well, maybe under 5, for that matter). These kids made "terroristic threats", huh?? Well, "terroristic" is not a word (at least outside government schools), but all this was is two slightly retarded kids making some drawing because they were mad. It's not a big damn deal, really.

Compare this and contrast, Greg, if you can write more than two sentences, with a group of Muslims who proceed to hijack four airliners (due to lack of firearms on board, of course) and crash them into skyscrapers, causing 3000 deaths and many more serious injuries.

Two mad little boys -- vs. -- 3000 deaths

Pretty much the same thing? I don't know, I report, you decide, you fucking moron.

>>Can any of you imagine anyone under 30-years-old today doing what Lewis and Clark did . . .Yes, as a matter of fact, I can. I see and hear about them every day: soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines. And there are others. My three kids, for instance.I share your exasperation at these idiotic shenanigans, but I think that we will survive it. This country is in the midst of an enormous course correction, and, like a battleship, it takes time to change headings.The time for these pinheads is passing; they just don't know it yet.

I thought I made it clear with:

"Not the terrific youth heading over there, but the back-up support and sacrifice that everyone else made during those years when paper and butter and gas were rationed? Crippled, of course by the leftist liberals who excuse any transgression or act of violence upon our nation."

I wasn't referring to todays soldiers, just to the lack of resolve that many others today have in supporting those soldiers.

I stand corrected.That being said, I think my point still stands. For every idiot kid (or adult) I see, there are numerous more who get it. There is large support for our military among the youth here. Of course, I live in Texas, which is pretty red."Courage!" - Dan Rather