tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post1786392983764948743..comments2024-03-17T20:04:18.872-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: Should Adam Lanza's Mother's Estate be Held Financially Responsible for the Sandy Hook Shooting?Lady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-50187655152506459062012-12-25T11:39:45.858-06:002012-12-25T11:39:45.858-06:00Yes.
SabrinaYes.<br /><br /><br />SabrinaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-90947776103066532492012-12-19T18:54:18.112-06:002012-12-19T18:54:18.112-06:00The Psy-Ops War on Preppers: This Has Become a Two...<a href="http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-psy-ops-war-on-preppers-12172012" rel="nofollow">The Psy-Ops War on Preppers: This Has Become a Two-For-the-Price-of-One Crisis</a>CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-77972365785847714922012-12-19T14:14:08.396-06:002012-12-19T14:14:08.396-06:00Daily Beast Article from today takes on some what ...Daily Beast Article from today takes on some what ifs.<br /><br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/19/nancy-lanza-was-deluded-to-keep-guns-at-home-with-troubled-adam.html<br /><br />The tone of the article is chilling. Begins to somewhat unpack the pathology you've been proposing. CShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09625059149243650675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-76932045315061449422012-12-19T11:42:55.170-06:002012-12-19T11:42:55.170-06:00Well, maybe she wasn't denying it, not at the ...Well, maybe she wasn't denying it, not at the end. Reports say that she was going to have her son committed, and he was angry about it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/adam-lanza-motive_n_2329508.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopularadamabroadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020398604235261930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-79776468263363578412012-12-19T01:09:20.510-06:002012-12-19T01:09:20.510-06:00HELL YEAH!!!HELL YEAH!!!Ms. Bunny Easterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00219393797031576690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-81649224907133936712012-12-18T22:34:18.192-06:002012-12-18T22:34:18.192-06:00There is one aspect of the American Dream as large...There is one aspect of the American Dream as largely shaped and accepted by white people that seems to apply here: denial of limitations.<br /><br />Denial of all kinds is necessary to preserve the ego. But as a general rule, all Americans tend to believe in their own ability to overcome their limits, no matter how serious they may be, more than non-Americans. In particular, white people seem to be more zealous believers in this potential to exceed expectations than others.<br /><br />I'm not a psychiatrist or a school counselor. But I do know better than to be surprised, if I provide some of my more poorly-behaving students with school supplies that could conceivably be used to hit people, when they take that opportunity and start smacking their classmates with what I've given them, even if they promised they wouldn't. This is not a great analogy, of course - they know those things I give them are relatively harmless, except for the cost of time - but it's still illustrative; some people, no matter what they say, can't be expected to keep themselves under control, for various reasons.<br /><br />In this case, the mother seems to have denied the truth about her son and herself; his behavioral problems couldn't be held back forever, no matter how many times she went through Hannibal Lecter-style instructions with the various outsiders who handled him. By doing this, she made him seem vaguely monstrous and potentially dangerous in all their interactions with the larger world (potentially making him think of himself as a monster), and, simultaneously, failed to address the underlying issues.<br /><br />That's one of the reasons I'm not sure I want to teach kids in the long run. Parents are emotional advocates, and it's easy to understand why. But I see a lot of harm done when parents, often white ones (well, always white ones here), can't learn to question their privileges, or the privileges they grant their kids. That sort of lack of awareness is toxic on an individual and societal level.adamabroadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020398604235261930noreply@blogger.com