Question Authority!

Are we raising mindless robots to be subjugated and compliant no matter what demands are made by those in positions of authority?

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case now involving a girl, 13 at the time, being strip searched at school.  This is getting to be insane.  School administrators should not have students go in their office, and disrobe for them.  As former Senator and Presidential candidate Fred Thompson would say: “Why do they call it common sense, when it is so uncommon?”

At the bottom of this post is a link to a story that NPR did on this case.  The girl continues to suffer emotional damage years after being forced to stand nude in front of her principal.  She had never had any prior disciplinary problems, was an honors student, and despite the search not turning anything up, was not allowed to return to class.

Of course the school does not believe they did anything wrong.  If the Supreme Court allows this to stand, then all of our kids could be forced to go through strip searches at any time they are in school.  Even minors, with more limited rights, should still have the right to keep their privates, well, private.

The governmental authorities would like Americans to be a good and docile group of sheeple that never question demands made of them.  It is my belief that God gave us brains, and we should use them.  Just because someone is “in charge” does not mean that we mindlessly do whatever they ask.  We should protect our children by letting them know that no one else owns their bodies.  If anyone asks them to do something with their body that they don’t want to do, they don’t have to.  Also, they should tell their parents and/or police about it.  Educating children about actions they can take will avoid potentially abusive situations.

If we allow our schools to dominate our children in this overbearing manner, we can expect more stupidity and abuse later, when they enter the workforce. 

A link below to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle documents the case of a teenage girl “forced” to strip and perform sex acts by the manager of a McDonald’s.  When researching this case, I was struck by the girl stating that her parents taught her to do what an adult asks of her, and not to question it.

Her parents set her up for emotional, physical, and sexual abuse by conditioning her to never question authority.  She could have refused to comply, and gotten out of the bad situation she was in.  However, she sued McDonald’s, and the jury awarded her $6.1 million.

Millions of Americans have experience working at a McDonald’s at some point in their lives.  I doubt that stripping and performing sex acts would be something most Americans would do at work, just because the boss is asking them to.  We should protect our kids by teaching them to be strong, and to get out of bad situations like this.

Allowing strip searches at school, without a warrant or judicial oversight, is not the direction we want to go in.

Like the old bumper sticker slogan says: QUESTION AUTHORITY!

NPR: Supreme Court To Hear School Strip-Search Case

San Francisco Chronicle: Jury gives $6.1M to Woman in Strip Hoax