Sic Semper Tyrannis ! - Volume 7: The Decline and Fall of Child Protective Services (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Then Chris testified. He first asked “How many of you kids have been spanked today?” Most of our guys raised their hands - including Bob (and Al, surprisingly - his dad had beaten him that morning.) Chris then said, “This week?” and virtually every kid there raised his (or her) hand. Then Chris asked, “How many have never been spanked?” Everybody looked around - and the only two hands raised were his and Maria’s. I was surprised that any twelve year old kid - and particularly one whose native language wasn’t English, and who was in a foreign country - could get the crowd of kids in his grip so well. Then he said that, if he’d asked the same question in Copenhagen or Stockholm, he’d have gotten just the opposite result - and that the minority of kids who had been “properly disciplined” were afraid to say so. He added that if CPS got their way, that’s what would happen here in Mountain Home, and in Boise, and in Pocatello, and every place else. The result, he continued, was that the kids in Denmark and Sweden were unmanageable, the schools were like zoos, the churches were empty, drugs and sexual promiscuity (how’s that for a big word from a foreign kid?) were rampant everywhere, and “our whole society is collapsing.” Chris said we shouldn’t be surprised, because it was a sign of the last days. He pointed out that Matthew 10:21 says “children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death;” and Second Timothy 3:2 says one sign of the end was that children will become “disobedient to parents.” I thought I was good at haranguing people - but Chris was really good at it, and I was suitably impressed. Chapter 68 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 very foundations of our 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 seventh volume of a more extensive saga, which traces the course of Billy and his friends as they struggle through the years of adolescence. In this volume, Chris Ericsson, just arrived in Idaho from Denmark, meets Bob and Billy, and agrees to accompany them to a pre-school "convention", in nearby Provo. It should be required reading for every adolescent boy, his parents, and all those who seek to influence him.