Thou shall not bully!
How can anyone be so ignorant as not to understand the difference between bullying and freedom of speech and expression? I’m referring to the editorial, “New buzz word that will take away your freedom” by Wade C. Bolen, publisher of the Clarke County Tribune, Dec. 2, 2010, pA4. Since when was bullying a freedom? Bullying is a form of abuse whether by children or adults and anyone who thinks they have a God given right to bully or abuse others is mistaken.
It is utterly appalling that anyone in the position of publishing a newspaper can be so misinformed and misguided as to not be aware of why it is our civic duty and responsibility to be ever vigilant toward bullies, predators, child molesters, wife beaters, animal abusers, and other brutish people, be they men or women, as to allow these behaviors leads to even worse behavior such at murdering fellow human beings.
A bully is one who uses force to gain power and control over another individual. Children who are bullies can turn into adults who beat their children or their wives -- or if too angered, kill them. Young people who beat up on their peers turn into men and women who cannot maintain relationships, do not know how to love, and often go through one failed marriage after another because no one in their right mind is going to stay married to a brut and a bully.
Our world is rapidly changing and such technologies like the Internet have shown how young people can bully others on-line to cause such deep and profound mental distress that children kill themselves. In other cases those bullied have sometimes armed themselves to the teeth and lashed out killing their fellow students and teachers in horrible mass murders. Then there are the Mel Gibsons of the world who play warlord fictional characters yet in real life express serious psychological problems and borderline personality behavior issues, beating up on women and children with their fowl mouths and violently raging tempers, seeking to gain power and control over their victims.
I would suggest that if the publisher of a newspaper does not understand the difference between freedom of speech and bullying that they should NOT be publishers as they set a very bad precedent and example for the community. The result is usually censorship which begins with limiting the length of editorial letters, an attempt to indoctrinate the public with political propaganda by bringing in outsiders as guest columnists, and ultimately gaining power and control of their little space of newsprint, using it to beat up on citizens, calling them liars, racists, or otherwise assaulting their good character -- all unjustified acts I've had done to me by a bully pulpit publisher.
Yes, a bully can be a newspaper publisher. Anyone who uses their position like a mad bull, enraged with too mush testosterone, to beat up on others to gain power and control over them is a bully. When there is only one political party, one newspaper, one king, dictator, despot, or tyrant, you get extreme forms of bullying. Everything from the Inquisition to genocide by The Third Riche was bullying taken to the extreme.
Is Clark County being bullied by a publisher who can’t tell the difference between freedom of speech and bullying? Are we being censored by a bully pulpit publisher who is so blinded by their own distorted perception of reality and life that they see bullying and abuse as a God given right? Perhaps. Therefore I’m starting an open forum on entitled The Free Press, with a link at www.freepress.byteland.org where everyone can come and freely speak their minds about important issues. Let’s come together and show the bullies and censors we won’t let you bully us any more! What you are doing is WRONG and the fact you cannot even see the difference between bullying and freedom of speech makes that perfectly clear!
So people, come to The Free Press and speak you mind. Let’s show the blind leading the blind publisher of the Clarke County Tribune that we ain’t going to take your bullying or your ignorance anymore. It is not only WRONG, it ultimately hurts the entire community!
It is utterly appalling that anyone in the position of publishing a newspaper can be so misinformed and misguided as to not be aware of why it is our civic duty and responsibility to be ever vigilant toward bullies, predators, child molesters, wife beaters, animal abusers, and other brutish people, be they men or women, as to allow these behaviors leads to even worse behavior such at murdering fellow human beings.
A bully is one who uses force to gain power and control over another individual. Children who are bullies can turn into adults who beat their children or their wives -- or if too angered, kill them. Young people who beat up on their peers turn into men and women who cannot maintain relationships, do not know how to love, and often go through one failed marriage after another because no one in their right mind is going to stay married to a brut and a bully.
Our world is rapidly changing and such technologies like the Internet have shown how young people can bully others on-line to cause such deep and profound mental distress that children kill themselves. In other cases those bullied have sometimes armed themselves to the teeth and lashed out killing their fellow students and teachers in horrible mass murders. Then there are the Mel Gibsons of the world who play warlord fictional characters yet in real life express serious psychological problems and borderline personality behavior issues, beating up on women and children with their fowl mouths and violently raging tempers, seeking to gain power and control over their victims.
I would suggest that if the publisher of a newspaper does not understand the difference between freedom of speech and bullying that they should NOT be publishers as they set a very bad precedent and example for the community. The result is usually censorship which begins with limiting the length of editorial letters, an attempt to indoctrinate the public with political propaganda by bringing in outsiders as guest columnists, and ultimately gaining power and control of their little space of newsprint, using it to beat up on citizens, calling them liars, racists, or otherwise assaulting their good character -- all unjustified acts I've had done to me by a bully pulpit publisher.
Yes, a bully can be a newspaper publisher. Anyone who uses their position like a mad bull, enraged with too mush testosterone, to beat up on others to gain power and control over them is a bully. When there is only one political party, one newspaper, one king, dictator, despot, or tyrant, you get extreme forms of bullying. Everything from the Inquisition to genocide by The Third Riche was bullying taken to the extreme.
Is Clark County being bullied by a publisher who can’t tell the difference between freedom of speech and bullying? Are we being censored by a bully pulpit publisher who is so blinded by their own distorted perception of reality and life that they see bullying and abuse as a God given right? Perhaps. Therefore I’m starting an open forum on entitled The Free Press, with a link at www.freepress.byteland.org where everyone can come and freely speak their minds about important issues. Let’s come together and show the bullies and censors we won’t let you bully us any more! What you are doing is WRONG and the fact you cannot even see the difference between bullying and freedom of speech makes that perfectly clear!
So people, come to The Free Press and speak you mind. Let’s show the blind leading the blind publisher of the Clarke County Tribune that we ain’t going to take your bullying or your ignorance anymore. It is not only WRONG, it ultimately hurts the entire community!
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