I saw this picture of Honey Boo Boo and Shirley Temple on
Facebook the other day and it got me to thinking about the same thing that
every year a new story will bring my thought to … what has happened to our
young people. Our young people is the
next generation to rule this country and at the moment I have some serious
concerns about whether or not they are up for the task.
June 25, 1962 Prayer
was removed from the public school systems.
I have heard some say that this is what has caused the fall of our youth
today. I have heard it said that if
prayer wasn’t removed from the schools, we wouldn’t have mass murders or
killings that we have today.
I don’t think so. On September 15, 1960, a guy by the name of
Paul Harold Orgeron, 49 years old, went to
Poe Elementary School to enroll his son in the 2nd
grade. When the school officials told
him he could not do that due to not having the proper documentation to do so,
he bombed the school killing himself, his son, and 6 others. So, if the theory of having prayer in school
diverts such tragedies as Columbine and the Bat Man Movie Theater, I’m here to
say it doesn’t.
In the 1970’s computers became affordable for the home, but
most people like me didn’t get one until the 1990’s. I have heard that computers is where we went
wrong.
I don’t think so. Facebook wasn’t discovered until February
2004 and in my opinion, this has been a major contributor to some of the crimes
that we are seeing today. Yes, I have a
Facebook and would probably have withdrawals if it was removed from my access …
but in my opinion, Facebook brought a whole new game to the crimes that were
already being perpetrated. When you got
bullied at school, it was only those one or two students doing it … today, when
a child is bullied at school, the bullying is posted on Facebook and all the
bullies friends pitch in and then even the ones that the victim thought were
their friends pitches in to keep from being bullied themselves. When the teens of today want to commit a
crime, they can’t do it without posting their crime on Facebook for all to
see. Thank God, because that is how most
of them are caught; but still, has technology really helped us or not?
President Obama has been termed the first "high tech" President due to his being able to keep his Blackberry and internet service for
personal use. This was a serious concern
for the President. This is the type of
society that we have fallen to lately.
Even the President wasn’t able to go a 4 year term without being able to
use his Blackberry and Internet. Today,
in law enforcement, they have a new charge that they can place on suspects, it
is code: 16-13-32.3(A) Use of
Communications to Facilitate a Crime and this charge is a felony. Put in simple words, this is the use of a
cell phone to tell your drug dealer you’re on your way and how much you
want. Technology has made crime so easy
and thankfully, this is one area that the police officers have just as much
advantage to catch the perpetrators. So,
when it comes to technology, I wouldn’t even say that it is the cause of the
crime, I would just say that it makes the crimes worse in a lot of ways.
I think what it all comes down to is this. No matter what age we live in, we are going
to have to live among the mentally ill.
The guy that bombed the Poe Elementary School in 1960 was already a con,
I’m not really sure what all his crimes were, but just the fact that he was a
con tells you he wasn’t all there in the head to begin with. The boys who shot up Columbine High School,
even their mothers spoke of their depression signals leading up to the
shooting. Of course we have the Bat Man
Movie Shooters parents speaking out now saying that he is sick … well, honestly
that is no surprise. I’m not even a doctor
and I could have gave them that same assessment. My question to those parents would be what
did you do to find him help? I know we
don’t have a lot of help out there for the mentally ill, but I do believe, that
if you keep knocking on the doors, eventually someone is going to open it and
want to take a look just out of pure curiosity of the illness. Prayer was not the answer and technology was
not the problem; our problem is that for one reason or the other, we seem to
have more mentally ill people today than we have in years past. Or, in years past we were better capable of
helping these people. It is this area
that we need to do more research and work in to find out what is going on and
what needs to be done to stop it.
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