The headline may seem to be a bit off relative to the story here, a school guard broke a girl’s arm for dropping a piece of cake in the cafeteria in Palmdale California(aka Lockheed-Martin central), but I believe that it is symptomatic of a change in attitude that Tom “The Mustache of Pomposity” Friedman describe succinctly when he said, “What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid.”

It’s done more than that. It has made us subservient to authority figures. What’s more, it has made authority figures willing to go to any length to enforce their will.

Here is the course of events:

A 16 year old girl spills some birthday cake in the cafeteria.

The guard orders her to clean it up.

When the girl tries to leave after the guard says she has not cleaned well enough, the guard assaults her, wrestles her to the ground, and breaks her wrist, while calling her nappy head!

The girl expelled, and then she is arrested for assault and littering.

The boy who got this all on his cell phone (see below) is assaulted and arrested, as is his sister, who was just standing around.

The mother comes to complain about her daughter’s treatment is charged for “assault” when she demands that the guard be fired, and she is charged with “assault” for “bumping” a principal or a guard.

Seriously, this sounds like the response of any petty dictator out there. We aren’t finding monks’ bodies in swamps, but this is intellectually similar to the Burmese crackdown.

Not only should this guard have been fired, he should be in jail right now.

When did worship of abusive authority figures become the cost of admission to our society?

Have we fallen so far that all we have left is brutality and force?
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