November 18, 2004

Akron Beacon Journal - Day 4

Only one more day of this tripe. Today's journalistic vomit tries to advance the theory that many homeschooled kids are victims of a child abduction. Unfortunately for the authors, they have a hard time finding anybody to support their thesis as even the FBI and various child abduction experts agree that there is no evidence to support that, and that the people the eventually catch who claim to be homeschooling weren't really homeschooling at all anyway. They were fugitives from the law.

And I'll go out on a limb here and agree with these idiots on something. Kidnappers should not be allowed to homeschool. I'm all in favor of a law extending harsh penalties on kidnappers that sully the good name of homeschoolers by using our advanced educational methodolgies as a cover for their lawbreaking activities. Actually, it may even be a hate crime, or possibly terrorsism, for kidnappers to homeschool. Throw the book at them, that's what I say.

I get the definite impression that if government wanted to implant a GPS tracking chip in every person in the country, these two clowns would be the first in line for the injection. The concept of freedom seems totally foreign to them. Which is of course ironic since if they published an article critical of the government's "lax" policies on homeschooling in, say Iran, they'd be thrown into jail and probably tortured.

Not that there is anything wrong with that idea ;)

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Comments

Dang, you beat me to the fisking today.

Not only would these guys be first in line to get chipped, they'd try to make sure that you, me, and everyone else was there too.

Posted by: don at November 18, 2004 11:52 AM

Two days, I'm afraid -- ends on Saturday.

Posted by: Tim Haas at November 18, 2004 01:14 PM

Hey, and that's two uses of the phrase "journalistic vomit" in as many days!

Posted by: daniel stoddart at November 18, 2004 09:34 PM

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