Sic Semper Tyrannis ! - Volume 5: The Decline and Fall of Child Protective Services (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"Look, here’s what it’s like to be a kid in Stockholm. You ain’t scared of nobody. You ain’t scared of your parents, you ain’t scared of the teachers, or the principal; you ain’t even scared of the cops. You don’t have to worry about ever gettin spanked, no matter what you do. You know your tail is safe. And so you get to where you feel like nobody has the right to tell you what to do. And you have no respect for authority. “I knew, deep inside, that kids are supposed to be spanked, and I knew kids always had gotten spanked, in Sweden and every place else. And I knew I was supposed to be. “I remember my first spanking real well - I can tell you where I was, and what time it was, and what I was wearing. And even though I believed in spanking kids, and told Dad I needed it, and I said I didn’t have a problem - when Dad turned me across his knee, and picked up the paddle - I thought, ‘This can’t be happening to me!’” Chapter 32 Sic Semper Tyrannis is a memoir about a time, not so long past, when men were free, religious values were taken seriously. and parents were allowed to pass on the cultural heritage to their children without governmental interference. As David Selznick remarked concerning the Antebellum South, "Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind . . . " This fictional account is the story of what might have been, had Christian parents possessed the courage of their convictions. It depicts the use of spanking and other types of physical correction, from the perspective of an adolescent boy. Twelve year old Billy Martin has been suddenly uprooted from the only home he knows, in liberal Stockholm, and sent to live with his eighteen year old brother, Bob, who has recently joined an ultra-conservative religious group in Idaho. Billy, a high-spirited youth, has been allowed to run at loose ends for his entire life, and has never experienced discipline of any kind. He now finds himself in a vastly different world. Bob immediately sets about bringing his kid brother into line, and giving him the “Biblical discipline” that he, and the other sect members, consider essential to proper child rearing. Billy strives to come to grips with the new reality. While the characters are wholly imaginary, the issues they confront are real, and threaten to undermine the foundations of Western civilization. This work does not contain any erotic material, but is a sobering assessment of today’s child rearing practices in the United States and Western Europe. This is the fifth volume of a more extensive saga, which traces the course of Billy and his friends as they struggle through the years of adolescence, and should be required reading for every adolescent boy, his parents, and all those who seek to influence him.