Paranoid?
I honestly woke up this morning and thought to myself, “Maybe I’m just a little too worried about the government. Honestly, how bad are things? I shouldn’t worry so much. The government is made up of the people, and we aren’t sick people by nature.”
Then I checked the news.
N.Y. report denounces shock use at school
New York education officials issued a scathing report yesterday on a Massachusetts school that punishes troubled and disabled students with electric shocks, finding that they can be shocked for simply nagging the teacher and that some are forced to wear shock devices in the bathtub or shower, posing an electrocution hazard.
Yep… guess my fear is warranted. When agents of the state are willing to deliver electric shocks to children in an attempt to gain compliance we’ve got something to worry about.
I cannot ponder what kind of sick individual would use that on a child. Hell, I wouldn’t use one on a dog! About 10 years ago we put a collar like that on the family dog and the damned thing malfunctioned — made us SICK that we hurt the dog so we destroyed the whole system.
I’ve seen the collars that you just hit a button on to zap the dog too. This is probably a better solution but guess what? It is now in human control — which means a power drunk idiot can hit the button. I must say that it was not one of finer moments, but I saw some drunken yahoo zap his own dog with one once just to make the dog yelp. Not at my prompting. Rather than chew his ass out (I was a guest) I got the collar from the dog and had him zap me. I figured it didn’t hurt much. I had him dial up over the series of zap levels and let me tell you: That shit HURTS!
Pretty sick fuck that would put one on a kid! Let alone a dog.