A LETTER TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ADOPT VIOLENCE AS SOCIAL JUSTICE THEORY

Jailtime with a terrorism enhancement for assault & battery or arson is not 'theoretical'. Hamas does not live here. We do.

A man shouted, “Two plus two equals four!”

Why would anyone scream a basic math equation?

The most basic simple truths are being distorted out of range of perception.

TIME TO HAVE THAT TALK

The pitch of our times manifest as the hustling of outrage for the sake of an attention currency, until desperation makes for a mugging. There is another one around every corner.  It’s another something over something. I know I had values and I had something important to do today.  I had something important to focus on today.   

Why did you have children, my foe? Were you selfish? Did you think ahead about the fact that you couldn’t be there for them or worse, that you paid too much attention? What did you do?

Many of your children have turned to self-neutering for acceptance. That’s extortion as high cost for admittance to a social club. What about … simple crimes? Simple crimes in a gang of five or more. Simple crimes where the identity shifts from week-to-week. It’s the same group of simpleminded cruel bullies with short-term thinking. They have a will to change genders, jackets, face coverings, religions, whatever.  Do you know why they are not thinking about the long-term consequences? Are they suicidal?

Do you know what your kids look like to people who happen to be in their path? This is what ‘social justice’ looks to be right now, protesting in favor of Hamas - far far away from anyone in the Gaza strip in a day of vengeance on ‘the system’.

I don’t want to deal with your kids. However, I am dealing with your kids. They are the same kids as other kids who commit larceny, acts of simple anarchy burning people and things in today’s torch bearing witch hunt. You want to believe they are different. You’ll tell me that they are somehow “different”. If they were behaving differently in deliverables as fairness, I wouldn’t be writing this.

They just are not different. They’re going to be criminals.

They seem to be in a lot of pain. Why is that?

WHEN PAIN IS LIKE GARBAGE

Pain is personal. Everyone has some. I tend to respect a person’s pain from a reasonable distance. When it begins to rule their interactions so their priorities change and they cannot be civil or decent as a matter of peer or political training, you tend to lose your mercy somewhere. Maybe it got nicked, along with the wallet. 

Pain is like garbage. Why burden someone with what you’re throwing out unless it is being repurposed for the formation of some point. When your young adult children bring me their pain in the form of crime, assault, mob assault online, hacking, or character assassinations over things that are not in any way crime, I am going to presume they learned it somewhere. I think they never learned how to take out their own garbage. Instead they learned to fling their pain, like a caged Hippo, onto the public.  I think they learned it…somewhere…

IF they have made this a public problem, you may be punished the same way you are now randomly punishing the public - by way of your children. People can carry a legal self-defense weapon and use it on your stray child if they have the bad sense to attack. It might be a baseball bat or a registered handgun or a can of mace. It might be a beer bottle, or a knife or a rock or whatever happens to be handy. 

This isn’t an action movie, where 18 guys lay dead in a firefight and Jason Statham walks out with zero consequence (onto the next sound stage). Real people will be harmed in a public attack. The hospital bills will be real. The criminal charges filed will be real. It will likely be filmed. The justice system will drag you, your child and your dwindling finances into a smaller and smaller space until … it ends up being a  5 x 7 foot cell with a single metal toilet and another person who made the identical kinds of decisions your kids are making right now.

An explanation is not a solution.  An excuse is not a solution.  The only card you have in your hand to defeat this scenario is preemptive deterrence. People pick and choose their fights all the time. Just because there is an act of aggression does not mean the opponent is worthy of an altercation or even a confrontation.  Mentally ill people are renown for picking fights with people for more attention.

Is your kid just mentally ill?  Prisons are full of marginally mentally ill people who wanted more attention.

I’m not writing this for your attention. I’m writing this because your kid may be turning into a terrorist and the whodunnit will be fairly open-and-shut, possibly no-contest in court.  That’s if you are lucky.  If their peer group turns on them or the self-defense counter is more than they can handle they may wind up in the hospital or dead. 

I want you to care. The “cause” won’t come to ID the body.  You will.