From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mpls] School Yard Bullying Re: The following three messages of November 9, 2004 on Mpls Digest 11-11:
1. I did not see the channel 5 report, but I did see a nasty case of bullying today. 2. Hmmm, and all of this so close to the one year anniversary of the high school shooting where two students died in MN. Do we need that kind of disaster here before we do something about it? 3. Regardless, this is what we expect from many children. Louise Bouta here: The writer noted that the two boys in Columbine were picked on. They were also picked on by society by being treated for “mental illness.” If we want to “do something” about the bullies in Mpls schools, I guess we should do something other than what the schools and society did in other cases around the country. They treated the boys for “mental illness.” Following is Short List of Recent American School Shooters and the Brain-Altering, Empathy-Destroying, Impulse Control-Depleting, Road Rage-Inducing, “I Don’t Give A Damn” Drugs They Were On * Eric Harris at Columbine High was on Luvox when he killed twelve classmates and a teacher in Denver, Colorado. * Kip Kinkel in Springfield, Oregon was withdrawing from Prozac when he shot 24 classmates/family members. * Shawn Cooper, a 15-year-old in Notus, Idaho, was taking Ritalin when he fired a shotgun at school. * 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was on Prozac when she shot at fellow students in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wounding one. * Mitchell Johnson was taking an unspecified psych drug when he shot fellow students in Jonesboro, Arkansas. * T.J. Solomon, a 15-year-old in Conyers, Georgia, was taking Ritalin when he shot six classmates. * Jason Hoffman was on Effexor and Celexa when he wounded five students at his California high school. * Cory Baadsgaard was on Paxil when took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. If any of these incidents had been associated with illicit drug use, everybody would have been up in arms blaming the methamphetamine, the cocaine, the pot, the alcohol and calling on an increase in the futile War on Drugs. But because these dangerous and dependency-inducing synthetic chemicals have been blessed by the media, prescribed by respectable physicians, manufactured by extremely profitable famous corporations, making huge amounts of money for investors and are headed by CEOs who have their pictures on the covers of Fortune, Business Week, etc. we turn our gaze away from the obvious truth, condemning our teenagers to more brain-altering (yes even brain cell-destroying) legal “zombification” drugs that may affect our children’s personalities and behaviors for the rest of their lives, perhaps condemning them to more acts of suicide and/or aggression as Big Pharma laughs all the way to the bank. Louise Bouta Kingfield REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
