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Children arrested for playing on a tree
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LOON_ATTIC
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Loxor
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Re: Children arrested for playing on a tree
It's like the city going crazy about graffiti by a kid. It was chalk. Seriously do people just obey everything they're told and is there no way people can even make a small judgment anymore? Honestly it's like everyone is stupid and has to be told by someone more powerful and brilliant than they are.
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Re: Children arrested for playing on a tree
What the FUCK?
I repeat, what the FUCK?
Wow, kids can't even be kids today. The police are like: I see you're climbing a tree, sorry you're vandalizing public property, that'll be 20 years. Damn brats. *rapist runs by* Ah, whatever, I got sum more criminal youth to handle! Can't be bothered with murderers and the like. got ta fix the corrupt youth of today.
No wonder people can't think for themselves anymore, they aren't allowed to. And of course school is just conditioning us for this treatment. See, this kind of shit is why I joined the site.
Go to work. Send your kids to school. Follow fashion. Act normal. Walk on the pavement. Watch TV. Save for your old age. Obey the law. Repeat after me: "I am free."
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Can people not think and make judgments anymore?
I keep hearing that these reactions are to avoid accusations of discrimination.
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.Manicrose. Wrote:No wonder people can't think for themselves anymore, they aren't allowed to. And of course school is just conditioning us for this treatment. See, this kind of shit is why I joined the site.
Fucking this. I've had that though for a long time, I used to say school is like a mini-version of a despot. All of this bullshit treatment we go through... they expect us to obey every singe thing they tell us, it's always been "take off that hood" and "give me that cellphone", and if you dare resist, well, you're going to the dean's office, and if you refuse to that, they call security, or the police, you can get arrested and physically abused, oh, and fucking everyone will think you're stupid and deserved it for being a brat, a teenage scum, or whatever. The "real world" parallels school in a lot of things, such as this.
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Re: Children arrested for playing on a tree
Good old Nanny state.
Its not about discrimination.
Its about why the hell would you arrest somebody for climbing a tree anyway?
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Put on news?
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Re: Children arrested for playing on a tree
CRIMINAL SCUM PLAYING ON TREES
THEY SHOULD PAY THEIR FINES, OR IT'S OFF TO JAIL
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HA. Oblivion tis funny. But, yeah...what the fuck? Free country my ass.
So, I was learning something, right? Then I went to school.
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Wow don't the police have any REAL crimes to solve?
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They do, but this clearly is more important. And as for the real world paralleling school, maybe it's because we get so used to it in school we become scared to think for ourselvs.
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