End year updates: Foreign wars in Middle East/South Central Asia, Africa;
Excerpts from Why Americans cannot discipline their children
Editing, re-reporting, brief comment by
Carolyn Bennett
Only America has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization
“Why Americans cannot
discipline their children” and results of this failure
This is some of what John Fleming had to say.
“The American state together with private industry,
especially ‘helping professions’ have usurped [parents’] authority in loco parentis, John Fleming writes, “thus
empowering physicians, psychologists, judges, social workers, dentists and
other health workers… ; and reducing people to parental incompetence.
The ultimate reason
that Americans are unable to discipline their children is that they have no
authority over them.
“American children run amok, throw tantrums in the ‘terrible
twos’ and ‘fearsome fours,’ and commit indignities against their parents and
maliciously disobey them … as to shock the rest of the world.”
Neglect
“Children’s actual socialization comes from the ever-present
baby sitter television and from the school, neighborhood pals and their
interaction at play.
Fleming laments his own observation. “Thousands of times [seeing]
children crying and reaching out in misery and just begging for comfort and
reassurance from their parents, who stand there helplessly as if paralyzed or
moronic as to what to do; or they insensitively, without any insight, scold
their offspring for being ‘cry babies.’”
Parent’s Roles
“Bewildered parents simply do not know what to do and the
surfeit of advice from so-called experts, which has increased exponentially
since 1945, has not at all ameliorated
the problem.…”
Having “acquired a hands-off or laissez-faire creed regarding their children, … mothers and fathers …, American parents are reduced to their entertainers, meal tickets and gift givers.
“In the United States the glorification of consumption and the warfare of status materialism see the parents constantly showering their ‘kids’ with presents ─ all too often in place of true love and affection.”
Mother scolds, Father escapes
“The mother resorts to [the shrew] and constant nagging to
obtain minimal obedience from her children, while the deadbeat American husband
and father emotionally abandons the family and takes little part in family
life.
Parents
do not guide, comfort, govern, teach, nurse, control, restrain or mentor their
children, although they are fond of giving them a good teasing now and then.
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| U.S. homeless |
American dream backfires: Absence of discipline seeds violence
“Being raised [as children] devoid of comforting, love,
discipline, affection and physical caring (such as hugging, caressing, holding,
breast-feeding, kissing, embracing and cuddling, of which American parents give
their children so very little), Americans in their collective folly are
frustrated, anxiety-ridden, insecure, enraged, angry, unhappy and selfish.
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| U.S. endless violence endless war dead |
“Permissive child rearing, hardly part of a conspiracy, came
into being willy-nilly, a result of purposeless historical forces, unplanned,
non-divined, un-envisaged and non-teleological.
“The American ideology of wealth dating from early American
history, roughly 1650, has had a secondary effect on the family that was unforeseen
by “the ruling class or the ‘Founding Fathers’ or the intellectuals and
illuminati or Tocqueville.”
“The ensuing hostile, violent and rancorous social scene,
besides moral chaos, social disintegration, barratry [persistent incitement of
litigation] and generational conflict, is remarkable for the unprecedented
intensification of social conflict: … Can anyone therefore really wonder at ─
Waco
Ruby Ridge
Oklahoma City
Columbine
Virginia Tech
Aurora
Newtown?
MAJOR MASSACRES:
U.
S. VIOLENCE OVER HERE, OVER THERE
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| Waco 1993 |
WACO, TEXAS, ATTACK 1993
The Waco siege, also described as the ‘Waco
massacre’ began February 28, 1993, when the United States Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) accompanied by several members of the media,
attempted to execute a search warrant at Mount Carmel Center ranch, a property
of the religious sect Branch Davidians located in the community of Elk, Texas, nine
miles (14 kilometers) east-northeast of Waco, Texas
The siege ended violently 50 days later on April 19, leaving
76 men, women and children dead. Among the dead was the sect leader, David Koresh
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| Weaver Family Home Ruby Ridge 1992 |
RUBY RIDGE, IDAHO, ATTACK 1992
Randy Weaver refused to be an informant for the federal
government and a deadly 1992 confrontation and siege that involved Weaver, his
friend, Kevin Harris, and his family and agents of the United States Marshals
Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation left Weaver's son Sammy, his wife
Vicki, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Dega dead at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
A 1994 Ruby Ridge Task Force report, in redacted form by
Lexis Counsel Connect, raised questions about the conduct and policy of all the
agencies involved in the Ruby Ridge, Idaho, attack: the FBI, USMS, the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the United States
Attorney's Office (USAO) for Idaho.
What had prompted the investigation and report was
Weaver's attorney Gerry Spence's accusations of "criminal wrongdoing"
against every agency involved in the incident.
OKLAHOMA BOMBING 1995
The Oklahoma City bombing was carried out by Timothy
McVeigh, an American militia movement sympathizer and Gulf War veteran, who
detonated an explosive-filled Ryder rental truck parked in front of the Alfred
P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. He was
assisted in bomb preparation by co-conspirator Terry Nichols.
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| Virginia Tech Faculty dead 1999 |
The bomb caused the deaths of 168 people among them 19 children,
injuries to more than 680 people; and the destruction of or damage to hundreds of
real estate and other material possessions.
COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING 1999
At Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, students
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire and 12 students and a teacher died in
addition to the suicides of the assailants. Twenty-four others were injured.
In this April 20, 1999, incident, Harris and Klebold had
reportedly started their rage in violence by planting two unexploded bombs in
the school cafeteria; they then opened fire on the school population.
VIRGINIA TECH (COLLEGE) SHOOTING 2007
On the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University (Blacksburg, Virginia), shootings by Seung-Hui Cho, a student with a
mental disorder, left 32 people (plus the suicide of the shooter) dead and 17
wounded. Others were injured trying to escape through the classroom windows.
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| A funeral Aurora 2012 |
COLORADO CINEMA SHOOTING 2012
During a July 20, 2012, midnight showing of “The Dark Knight
Rises” at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, a gunman dressed in tactical clothing
sets off tear gas canisters and opens fire on the audience leaving 12 people
dead and 58 injured. James Eagan Holmes is arrested.
Colorado gun sales spiked after the shooting; the number of
background checks for people seeking to purchase a firearm in this state
increased to 2,887, up 43 percent from the week before the incident. Gun sales
increased in Washington, Florida, California, and Georgia as did political
debates on gun control but a Pew Research Center survey suggested the incident had not
changed Americans' views on the issue.
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| A funeral Newtown 2012 |
CONNECTICUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING 2012
At Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School on
December 14, 2012, a murder suicide occurred that left two people wounded and
twenty children, six adult staff members plus the shooter, 20-year-old Adam
Peter Lanza, dead.
END YEAR Miami Herald reports “2012’s top news: shootings, Hurricane Sandy,
election and more”
Mass shootings: At a midnight showing of The Dark Knight
Rises on July 20, a gunman opened fire on a theater full of moviegoers in
Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people and injuring almost 60 others. Arrested and
charged with the crime is James Eagan Holmes, who is awaiting trial. But
Eagan’s act of terror was not to be the only one of 2012. On Dec. 14, Adam
Lanza shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and
killed 20 children and six adults. Lanza, who died after shooting himself,
killed his mother, a Sandy Hook teacher, before his rampage. The horrific
attacks propelled the arguments for and against gun control to the forefront of
American debate. Miami Herald December
29, 2012, http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/29/3160550/2012s-top-news-shootings-hurricane.html
Major massacres abroad
Unchecked U.S. WAR, DEATH:
Endless aggression
I-casualties reports
Coalition Military
Fatalities by Year - Afghanistan
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http://icasualties.org/oef/
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| U.S. war Afghan funeral |
Press TV’s recent reports
AFGHANISTAN
The US-led war in Afghanistan, which has caused record-high
civilian and military casualties, has become the longest military conflict in
the American history.
The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 under the
pretext of combating terrorism. The offensive removed the Taliban from power,
but insecurity continues to rise across the country despite the presence of
thousands of US-led soldiers.
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| Afghan homeless |
Today in Afghanistan at least nine NATO fuel tankers were
torched after a powerful bomb explosion rocked Jalalabad Airport in country's
eastern province of Nangarhar Press TV reports. The incident occurred when a
bomb planted in a fuel tanker detonated in a terminal near the airport, where
NATO oil tankers were parked. http://www.presstv.ir/section/351020403.html
PAKISTAN
A recent report revealed that over 3,300 people, many of
them women and children, were killed in U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan between
June 2004 and September 2012.
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| U.S. drone warfare on Pakistan |
The United States also carries out drone strikes in
Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Late last week four people died in another U.S.
assassination drone attack in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt near the
Afghan border. The strike occurred on Thursday when missiles fired from U.S.
drones hit a house in the town of Gurbuz, which lies southwest of Miranshah,
the main town in North Waziristan tribal district. Two other people suffered
injuries in Thursday's attack.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/28/280570/us-drone-attack-kills-four-in-pakistan/
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| Yemenis protest U.S. drone warfare Breach of sovereignty |
YEMEN
The United Nations has censured the U.S. drone attacks as
targeted killings, stressing that the raids flout international law. Reports,
however, say that the CIA is seeking to expand its covert drone attacks in
Yemen.
On Friday Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets
in the northern city of Sa’ada to protest U.S. interference in their country’s
internal affairs. The demonstrators accused the United States of hijacking
their revolution by keeping in power some of the loyalists to the ousted
dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh and granting the former ruler immunity under a
power transition deal.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/28/280612/yemenis-rally-against-us-interference/
SYRIA
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| Pro-Assad rally Syria |
Officials at the Syrian capital Damascus have repeatedly charged
that outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are the driving element behind
the unrest and deadly violence. Since March 2011, Syria has been experiencing
unrest. The Syrian government most recently has said the chaos in Syria is
being orchestrated from outside the country and there are reports that a very
large number of armed militants fighting the Syrian government are foreign
nationals.
Today the U.S.-based historian Webster Griffin Tarpley tells
Press TV, “If the Free Syrian Army, particularly if [Syria’s militia group
Jabhat] al-Nusra gang of death squads should ever gain power over Syria or
large parts of Syria, we would witness a colossal bloodbath” exceeding any in
the current century.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/30/280890/bloodbath-awaits-syria-under-militants/
AFRICA
The U.S. military and its main spy agency, the CIA, have
regularly been involved in using pilotless assassination drones to bombard
alleged al-Qaeda suspects and strongholds in Africa, the Middle East and
Pakistan. Most of those killed by American terror drones, however, have
reportedly been civilians.
The U.S. military has set up a plan to deploy troops and
spies to African nations in a purported bid to counter what it describes as ‘a
growing terrorist threat’ by the shadowy, Saudi-linked al-Qaeda terror
franchise.
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| U.S. drone attacks Somalis |
“Nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers from the Army’s Dagger Brigade
are due to be dispatched ‘throughout Africa’ in ‘small teams’ beginning next
spring to ‘train African troops on everything from logistics and marksmanship
to medical care,’ major U.S. government-funded radio network NPR reports in a
Tuesday broadcast.” The report also notes that “‘the Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) is already placing more of its military spies in Africa.’”
Returning to Fleming’s theme, perhaps another truth is that children, the young really are obeying their parents. They are following their example of violence
─ as the first response, always, anywhere, any situation, any time.
Sources and notes
“Why Americans cannot discipline their children” (John
Fleming) December 21, 2012,
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/21-12-2012/123261-americans_children-0/#
Quoted by Fleming: “America is the only nation in history
which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the
usual interval of civilization” ─ Georges Clemenceau (ca. 1925)
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/21-12-2012/123261-americans_children-0/#
John Fleming is the author of the book Word Power
Press TV online news
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