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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

We're Down on Our Knees

Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour? -The Guardian

I see it as an advance for equality. After all, the state has been criminalizing normal adult behavior for millennia.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...: nathan detriot???; 10:36 AM
James N. said...: It's just like that old African proverb: "It takes a precinct to raise a child."; 10:36 AM
Leonard said...: It is equality advancing, but it is no advance.; 10:44 AM
IOZ said...: By some chance I had brought my dice along.; 10:50 AM
Montag said...: seems like there's a fine line between selecting for cops with low enough test scores that they won't get bored with police work, and assigning cops to a beat in an environment where they might be exposed to learnin'.; 11:32 AM
Professor Coldheart said...: Gee, Attorney General Holder ... HOLD YOU!

Doesn't quite work.

(BTW, saw the revival when it toured through Boston. Mediocre at best; the singers didn't have a lot of charisma); 12:13 PM
Professor Coldheart said...: On reflection, "Gee, Attorney General Holder ... HOLD THIS!", accompanied by the traditional gesture, would fit very well. Let me knock one back with lunch and channel my inner Sondheim; I'll get back to yinz.; 12:21 PM
Enron said...: Well, someone's gotta walk the beat on behalf of the Dean; 1:01 PM
NutellaonToast said...: "Texas is reassessing its own reaction to fears of feral youth that critics say has created a "school-to-prison pipeline".

Beats working for a living.; 1:50 PM
President Gas said...: "Zero tolerance started out as a term that was used in combating drug trafficking and it became a term that is now used widely when you're referring to some very punitive school discipline measures. Those two policy worlds became conflated with each other," said Fowler.

The school cops need drones, in my opinion. There's no way to win the battle against misbehavior without drones. Drones. Drones.

Also: punk'll; 2:01 PM
rob payne said...: It’s a new apprentice program for a progressive nation. It’s the future today.; 2:24 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...: Geez, I can tell none of youz ever went to Our Lady of Great Agony or any of its sister schools ...

Any graduate of a 50's parochial school will tell you this is back to the future ...; 2:38 PM
Jack Crow said...: Fuck, I went to a Saint Somethingorother in the 1970s and I can tell you this is back to the future.; 4:19 PM
Montag said...: my public high school had a college track, business track and a vocational track. i think it's great that kids today have the criminal track to fall back on, and that the state is willing to be involved. instead of AP college credits, they earn line items for their criminal record. gets them on the books so they aren't an unknown quantity come graduation day.; 4:33 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...: That's a very funny comment Montag.

But really - let's call a greaser a greaser and agree that the vocational track WAS more or less the criminal track way back when - I mean - where else did Hollywood get the images for some of its most biggest blockbusters?; 5:00 PM
fish said...: Hey, 3 squares and linen service. Beats being poor.; 5:41 PM
Anonymous said...: No, EL. In the 50s there were no black people. And if there were, they weren't permitted to enter a track. Nostalgia films tell me so.; 5:59 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...: Yeah you're right, non@5:59.

I gotta remember to stop mixing up Ralph Ellison and Claude Rains ...; 6:35 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...: But wait a sec, non@5:59 - I just realized that Jesse Owens is the counter-example to your claim .. he was allowed to enter lots of tracks ... kinda like greyhounds were, if ya think about it ...; 6:37 PM
demize! said...: "But really -let's call a greaser a greaser and agree that the vocational track WAS more or less the criminal track way back when -I mean -where else did Hollywood get the images for some of its most biggest blockbusters?" Except a vocational education yields graduates WITH A REAL SKILL! Not paper pushing, navel gazing, or speculation aka theft. Plus most of those guys are earning a secure six figures while the Womens Studies graduates Et al are looking for Occupy locations to do the human mic at.; 2:10 PM
demize! said...: PS. The Police; not a vocation.; 2:13 PM
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