Comments on: 4th Teen Arrested In Videotaped Beating

16-Year-Old Boy Who Recorded Girls Fighting Surrenders To Long Island Police

[swmiller58]

raybjur......

The answer to your question is this, and it is simply my opinion. I believe that humans are imperfect beings and as such we have and always will, hurt and kill each other. We have been doing it since the first humans walked the planet and we are still doing it today. We will continue to do it until God, who I believe created us, decides to change our way of thinking and acting....because human beings will not change (as a whole) on their own. We have always hurt and killed each other and we always will until a force bigger than us, changes us.

Not pushing it off on anyone, just accepting the facts of history and the present.

Just my opinion

[lkemmler]

Sorry, but it looked like a good %u201Cold fashion%u201D fight to me. They could have been using guns, knives, or bats! Hopefully no one got seriously hurt, and I don%u2019t feel (in most cases) that the parents should be fined. What if you just have a bad kid, drain Mom and Dad%u2019s bank account; some kids are just uncontrollable.

[raybjur]

swmiller58: I don't mean to be sacrilegious but why do you put the burden on God? You say the 1st resolution is to hope God fixes the problem. Personally, I take that as a cop-out by those that sit around waiting for someone (God?) to make things right. I agree with your 2nd option - punish the perpetrators and the parents.

[swmiller58]

I do not like what happened...but, this is not new news. Kids fighting on school grounds has been happening as long as there has been kids and schools. Even if it was off of school grounds, this is still not new news. But it is, and always has been distrubing. The only difference between now and the past is...with technology, fights can now be taped and broadcast on the internet for the entire world to watch. Until technology came into the arena, fights were just something that you heard about rarely...and most likely never saw. But now we see them on the internet all the time. That doesn't mean the kids are fighting more than kids did during my grandfather's day, it just means we are able to broadcast those fights to everyone now.

If you want to stop this, there is only 2 ways. The first is hope that God changes each of us so that we don't fight. If that doesn't happen, the second way is to punish both the kids AND the parents. Make the kids serve community time and the parents to pay a fine of say $2,000 (with each future fight raising the amount of the fine). Then I bet this *** would stop.

Just my opinion.

[gunnerv1]

I don't belive it! Not one "It's all Bushs Fault". You guys are slipping.

[raybjur]

I find it interesting that the girls were charged with ATTEMPTED assault. What would one have to do to actually assault someone? They have already been let off the hook by reducing the charge. I wonder what the charges would have been if the victim's parents were legislators? Odds are this story will just fade away and the attackers will do a few hours picking up newspapers along the streets. Maybe we'll read about them again when they kill the next kid.

[suiteo1]

bhussbhuss: I totally agree and think all four teenagers need to be held accountable and pay for their actions!

The problem also goes beyond parents being afraid to discipline their kids, as some posts here lightly mention. I put a large part of the blame on "the system", which means the courts, people writing law books, sheriffs department and social services. THEY, are the ones that have tied parents%u2019 hands behind their backs and the kids KNOW IT too. All a kid has to do is calmly say: "child abuse" to stop a parent dead in their tracks from dishing out punishment. And let%u2019s get one thing straight; I'm NOT talking about actual abuse either. Parents that do that kind of disgusting thing to their kids deserve everything they get. I'm talking about the slightest thing said by ANYBODY that comes to the attention of Child Services and your kids are AUTOMATICALLY taken out of the home regardless. THAT, is an abuse of power! These same organizations BLAME THE PARENTS for not disciplining their children! I love that one. What%u2019s a parent supposed to do? It%u2019s no wonder so many of them just let the kids do whatever they want.

To all the POWERS THAT BE in the court system and enforcement agencies; WAKE UP! YOU are the ones limiting what a parent can do. YOU are the ones contributing the most to the problem with gangs. We used to have a system that WORKED, for the most part, until YOU took it away. That system was: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child!

[kgdbtx-2009]

I know the liberals will want to take these kids by the hand and ask them why they feel the need to be so mean.....and other meaningless drivel. These kids parents should be strung up for raising the kids this way, and for not knowing where their kids are.

[blondmadison]

This is undeniable evidence that the members of our society are sick. Adults and children alike. How else could children come up with this except to have seen it somewhere first?

We have a sick culture----sick globe of humanity bottom line. Psycho to make money, sociopaths to walk the psych job thru. Sick. The mental patients are running the sanitarium of the globe now. Nice going. How's it working so far? Doesn't appear as though it's going over too well.

[vancouverboo]

Is this a Hate Crime or a Love Crime?