Saturday, June 19, 2004
The Rapid City Journal
June 27, 2004
While continuing his denial that the Iraqi prison torture was "unAmerican" and "unacceptable," Donald Rumsfeld continues to find excuses not to provide the people he serves with documents which might prove the administration did all it could to bypass Geneva Convention guidelines and allow torture.
Excuses from talk radio have been right, but for the wrong reasons. These photos were indeed locker room and hazing behavior. But we accept it as "character building" and "rites of passsage." We accept torture by student, and blame the weak for being weak.
They shouldn't have have looked / acted that way toward their predators. As a member of their race/gender/religion/social class, they should know better. Women can avoid domestic torture by doing what their man says in the first place. Children can avoid the belt (or worse) by knowing not to anger their parents. Wealthy students can afford off campus housing or finagle a single room in the dorm and avoid being hazed.
We should demand schools be safe for all students, truly punish abusers (be they parents, spouses, coaches, teammates, classmates, preachers, cops), teach students valid relationship (life) skills, ban hazing, and stop accepting bigotry because it's "traditional" thought or behavior.
June 27, 2004
While continuing his denial that the Iraqi prison torture was "unAmerican" and "unacceptable," Donald Rumsfeld continues to find excuses not to provide the people he serves with documents which might prove the administration did all it could to bypass Geneva Convention guidelines and allow torture.
Excuses from talk radio have been right, but for the wrong reasons. These photos were indeed locker room and hazing behavior. But we accept it as "character building" and "rites of passsage." We accept torture by student, and blame the weak for being weak.
They shouldn't have have looked / acted that way toward their predators. As a member of their race/gender/religion/social class, they should know better. Women can avoid domestic torture by doing what their man says in the first place. Children can avoid the belt (or worse) by knowing not to anger their parents. Wealthy students can afford off campus housing or finagle a single room in the dorm and avoid being hazed.
We should demand schools be safe for all students, truly punish abusers (be they parents, spouses, coaches, teammates, classmates, preachers, cops), teach students valid relationship (life) skills, ban hazing, and stop accepting bigotry because it's "traditional" thought or behavior.
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