RE: How to teach my 10yr old to put his hands up
How is it your 10 year old understands the concept of "Rule of Law" vs "Rule by law" and you do not? No, the police can not make up the laws on the spot. Throwing anything at a police officer is illegal. Threats to burn down the school should be investigated. Instead of teaching your child that the justice system is oppressive, perhaps teach him that his words and his actions have consequences, and if he says something that could threaten the health and well being of others, he will be treated as a threat to society. Yes, intervening in an arrest is illegal. And if you do not take the summons he hands you for breaking the law, you will end up in jail. No, cops can not handle the problem however they want, and it is quite inconceivable that any adult would believe this
You seem to think that laws, and their enforcement, is something you can opt out of if you do not agree with them, and that if society disagrees with you, then you are a victim of oppression.
Hopefully, for your child's sake, if a police officer tells him to put his hands up, he will. The fact that you never would is just plain irresponsible, and you may well end up dead as a result of your holding firm to your dangerously irrelevant ideas of what you think you have a right to.
If you want to keep your child safe, teach him that breaking the law has consequences, and that he should, whenever possible, not break the law.
what Hitler did was legal. slavery was legal. it's clear to see how dangerous and destructive ideas spread through masses of people too scared to think the "law" may be wrong..
sorry to see you spent so long typing that nonsense out.
Ah, yes... I see what you are doing here... you are taking the worst examples of human injustice and using them to justify the outrageousness of a school taking steps to keep the children safe from the threat of arson, or suggesting that the 13 cops charged with murder (in 2013) or the 2,500 claims of brutality, out of the 1.5 million arrests (that's 0.0016%) is somehow equivalent to jack booted Nazis marching through streets rounding up Jews. I suspect that teaching 10 year old's that every cop is a potential Nazi will not serve him or her well as they try to make their way in the world.
Sometimes laws have to and should be broken....but its important to know which laws and what context deems their being broken necessary...
Throwing a snowball at a cop? Unnecessary .
btw @amariespeaks .....your amazingly beatiful and lucious red hair stirs up a fire in me as bright as its colour. (just a compliment)
I think that if you want revolution perhaps it is important to teach your son law....it is quite a complex subject and very empowering to he who can navigate its depths.
Too many judges and attorneys / lawers are Freemasons....we need more good natured people in politics , law, and deep government / positions of power to balance the duat.
Best of life to you and your son !
Justification to a old problem was no where near what I was trying to portray in that post. It was meant as a tiny example to highlight overreactions in society. I will need to rethink how to get a blatant point across in my upcoming posts. thank you for the criticism and all your energy that was clearly put in to your reply.
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I would have thought that as well, but then I started hanging out on Steemit, which, you'll find, is quite the anarchist's playground. It's quite a prevalent idea around here that individuals ought to be able to opt out of laws they don't agree with.
For what it's worth, it's quite nice to have your dissenting voice here. :)
As an illegal alien fugitive hiding out and living under the radar in Argentina for the past 10 years, I consider myself an anarchist as well, but also a realist.
I see a passionate parent expressing the challenges of raising a kid in an increasingly dangerous world. I may not agree with everything, but how do I know exactly what she believes? I wouldn't want to misinterpret or pass judgement on a person based on a few words.
Mans laws are meant to be broken
universal or natural law cannot be.