Sic Semper Tyrannis - Volume 8: The Decline and Fall of Child Protective Services (Sic Semper Tyrannis !) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Chris added, “If I may venture the further observation that, if we were in either Denmark or Sweden, this is the way kids customarily act - they can and do sass their parents and dare their parents to do anything about it. And if we were in Scandinavia, the parent would go to jail for having slapped the kid. That’s why all you guys should be thankful you live in America and have parents who care enough about you to spank you and make you mind - you lucky dogs!” Chapter 82 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 eighth 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 Erickson, recently arrived from Copenhagen, is becoming integrated into Bob’s and Billy’s “gang”, which is preparing to attend a pre-school “convention” in nearby Provo. This series should be required reading for every adolescent boy, his parents, and all those who seek to influence him.