I've been watching a very disturbing trend on Facebook lately in the form of videos posted by bullies of their "victims" being beaten. Often, realizing that the beating is being filmed, the victim is rising up against them while one of the bully's friends is busily filming - and oftentimes, laughing at the beat down rather then coming to the defense of their bullying pal. It has spawned a bunch of anti-bullying videos lately, but I have a couple of questions about these videos whenever they appear in my News Feed:
1) Who in their right mind would "get ready" for a video that, if the proper authorities get their hands on it (i.e. it becomes "public domain" because you're dumb enough to post it to You Tube or Facebook), NOT ONLY will the bully get caught and punished (because the biggest "excuse" for these people is "I didn't do anything and don't know WHAT this so-called victim is talking about"), but YOU, whose voice comes in several times over this video, will also be punished as an accomplice? ("Accomplice", for those of you skipping classes with your bully friend, is defined by Merriam Webster as "a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing, often as a subordinate".) You DO realize that, when your bullying buddy convinced you to film them beating down some poor sucker you've been beating on all year, that you are "knowingly helping", right, and that, if this goes to a news station, as one did last year in my local area, that you will also be suspended and taken to court along with that bully you've been hanging out with?
2) When these videos hit "big time" on Facebook and such, do the parents ever look at these and say "Good job on bullying that kid who's smaller than you are, son. How did his foot taste when he broke your nose with that roundhouse kick?"
3) Do the parents of other kids that the bully hangs out with see the video and punish their own child for bringing this nasty person home with them, either by taking better stock of the people their child is hanging out with or by flat-out grounding their child for not having the common sense God gave a gnat?
4) There are parents out there (like me) who, on seeing these videos and realizing that school hasn't changed since WE were in school, are getting their bullied child self-defense lessons, so that the next time you perform a sucker punch on your favorite victim, you may be picking your head up in the next county when your victim takes what they've learned in self defense to put your bullying heinie into the hospital so you can think about how Instant Karma did just what John Lennon predicted and "Gonna knock you right in the head"?
For all the parents out there who are too busy trying to make ends meet to pay attention to what is going on in your child's life, I sincerely hope these videos are waking you up to the fact that BULLYING HAPPENS EVERY DAY! If you aren't paying attention to your child enough to know if they are the bully or the victim, you're adding fuel to the fire for the next child who decides that the only way to feel safe is to bring a gun to school and blow a bunch of people into the next life. By ignoring your children and letting the day care and the schools raise them with NO value when it comes to human life, you AREN'T part of any form of a solution.
This, when it comes right down to it, is why I'm hoping that Bernie Sanders beats out the others vying for President and also accomplishes a major shake-up in the people that we send to represent us in Washington - especially those who aren't seeing that, by keeping minimum wage at less than $8 per hour, parents BOTH have to work, leaving their children to be raised by surrogates who encourage this bully behavior because they can't instill the family values we need so bad. We need to stop the "business as usual" atmosphere in the US and start having parents at home who see their child instigating these bullying videos and start taking action to change the way our children see the world.
We need the moms to be at home, as mine was, to see the bully in action in their own home and put a stop to it before pain and fear are all we know, as that is what John Lennon was saying in his music:
"Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you're everywhere
Come and get your share"
May your share of the instant karma be peace and goodness all the rest of your days.
Blessed be.
1) Who in their right mind would "get ready" for a video that, if the proper authorities get their hands on it (i.e. it becomes "public domain" because you're dumb enough to post it to You Tube or Facebook), NOT ONLY will the bully get caught and punished (because the biggest "excuse" for these people is "I didn't do anything and don't know WHAT this so-called victim is talking about"), but YOU, whose voice comes in several times over this video, will also be punished as an accomplice? ("Accomplice", for those of you skipping classes with your bully friend, is defined by Merriam Webster as "a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing, often as a subordinate".) You DO realize that, when your bullying buddy convinced you to film them beating down some poor sucker you've been beating on all year, that you are "knowingly helping", right, and that, if this goes to a news station, as one did last year in my local area, that you will also be suspended and taken to court along with that bully you've been hanging out with?
2) When these videos hit "big time" on Facebook and such, do the parents ever look at these and say "Good job on bullying that kid who's smaller than you are, son. How did his foot taste when he broke your nose with that roundhouse kick?"
3) Do the parents of other kids that the bully hangs out with see the video and punish their own child for bringing this nasty person home with them, either by taking better stock of the people their child is hanging out with or by flat-out grounding their child for not having the common sense God gave a gnat?
4) There are parents out there (like me) who, on seeing these videos and realizing that school hasn't changed since WE were in school, are getting their bullied child self-defense lessons, so that the next time you perform a sucker punch on your favorite victim, you may be picking your head up in the next county when your victim takes what they've learned in self defense to put your bullying heinie into the hospital so you can think about how Instant Karma did just what John Lennon predicted and "Gonna knock you right in the head"?
For all the parents out there who are too busy trying to make ends meet to pay attention to what is going on in your child's life, I sincerely hope these videos are waking you up to the fact that BULLYING HAPPENS EVERY DAY! If you aren't paying attention to your child enough to know if they are the bully or the victim, you're adding fuel to the fire for the next child who decides that the only way to feel safe is to bring a gun to school and blow a bunch of people into the next life. By ignoring your children and letting the day care and the schools raise them with NO value when it comes to human life, you AREN'T part of any form of a solution.
This, when it comes right down to it, is why I'm hoping that Bernie Sanders beats out the others vying for President and also accomplishes a major shake-up in the people that we send to represent us in Washington - especially those who aren't seeing that, by keeping minimum wage at less than $8 per hour, parents BOTH have to work, leaving their children to be raised by surrogates who encourage this bully behavior because they can't instill the family values we need so bad. We need to stop the "business as usual" atmosphere in the US and start having parents at home who see their child instigating these bullying videos and start taking action to change the way our children see the world.
We need the moms to be at home, as mine was, to see the bully in action in their own home and put a stop to it before pain and fear are all we know, as that is what John Lennon was saying in his music:
"Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you're everywhere
Come and get your share"
May your share of the instant karma be peace and goodness all the rest of your days.
Blessed be.
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