phatass
Bluelighter
only in the USA.... land of the free, home of the brave... hmm
Hmmmm, I can constantly live in fear of me going to prison for a long time for something I'm not doing, or I can obey the law/everything I've been taught and not get in trouble. Yeah it would suck to rat out your parents, but if you honestly believe you will go down with them, it makes sense to do so. And yes, I know I'm assuming things here (e.g. he may not have really talked to his parents about his feelings or known about the legal standing of himself in this matter).
So you would, in your mind at least, go to prison for many years because of something your parents do? That sounds a lot like the fucked up sense of justice found in The Bible, which also preaches obeying one's parents no matter what. Fuck that shit, some parents suck.
So you would, in your mind at least, go to prison for many years because of something your parents do? That sounds a lot like the fucked up sense of justice found in The Bible, which also preaches obeying one's parents no matter what. Fuck that shit, some parents suck.
If I was about to get caught I probably would have done then the same. I will not live my life in cell like an abused animal. I will not subject myself to those who think they have any sort of higher authority over my life. Also I wouldn't want to live in a world where my own kin is blinded enough to throw their family members away with harmful ignorance. Death is the ultimate freedom. I enjoy life, but I don't enjoy having no freedom and if it comes to to it, I'll go all the way.
I wanna know why he felt the need to snitch on his father?
Was he just a dumbfuck who believed he was doing right?
Perhaps his father was abusive towards him and this was his 'revenge'.
Who knows.....

wikipedia said:The Use of Children as Informants
"Children are asked to submit to D.A.R.E. police officers sensitive written questionnaires that can easily refer to the kids' homes" and that "a D.A.R.E. lesson called 'The Three R's: Recognize, Resist, Report' … encourages children to tell friends, teachers or police if they find drugs at home."[30]
In addition, "D.A.R.E. officers are encouraged to put a 'D.A.R.E. Box' in every classroom, into which students may drop 'drug information' or questions under the pretense of anonymity. Officers are instructed that if a student 'makes a disclosure related to drug use,' the officer should report the information to further authorities, both school and police. This apparently applies whether the 'drug use' was legal or illegal, harmless or harmful. In a number of communities around the country, students have been enlisted by the D.A.R.E. officer as informants against their parents."[31]
"In the official D.A.R.E. Implementation Guide, police officers are advised to be alert for signs of children who have relatives who use drugs. D.A.R.E. officers are first and foremost police officers and thus are duty-bound to follow up leads that might come to their attention through inadvertent or indiscreet comments by young children."[32]
As a result, "children sometimes confide the names of people they suspect are illegally using drugs. A mother and father in Caroline County, Maryland, were jailed for 30 days after their daughter informed a police D.A.R.E. instructor that her parents had marijuana plants in their home, according to a story in The Washington Post in January 1993. The Wall Street Journal reported in 1992 that ‘In two recent cases in Boston, children who had tipped police stepped out of their homes carrying D.A.R.E. diplomas as police arrived to arrest their parents.’ In 1991, 10-year-old Joaquin Herrera of Englewood, Colorado, phoned 911, announced, ‘I'm a D.A.R.E. kid’ and summoned police to his house to discover a couple of ounces of marijuana hidden in a bookshelf, according to the Rocky Mountain News. The boy sat outside his parents' home in a police patrol car while the police searched the home and arrested the parents. The policeman assigned to the boy's school commended the boy's action."[33]
Ashamed. When I do my travelling outside the US, I am claiming my Canadian roots.
'Je ne suis pas Américain. Je suis Canadien.'
especially because he is going to find these dumbass, "legalize it" articles about his father when he gets older.But back to the point of suicide- if you have a young kid, and you kill yourself because of what that kid did, you are essentially dooming your child to some potentially severe mental illness. The kid's going to have a lot of problems later in life. The father's actions were over the top, it would be different if he didn't do it because of his kid. Having a child adds a new variable to the "death or prison" debate.