You Know, Someone’s on the Take, Don’t You
September 8th 2007 21:59
Have you ever wondered how someone gets drugs onto a high school campus? Consider this: as adults we, via credit cards and online bookings, can appear anywhere in the world at moment’s notice. Considering all the businessmen and women in the world, many of us actually do this.
Children in our society are considerably less free to travel. The exception proves the rule. When a teenager flew to Iraq without his parent’s permission it was big news. Thousands of our soldiers have gone to Iraq—have you seen 100,000 big news stories, one on each individual soldier? You don’t have hours enough in the day to do that much reading. If you tried it, you could read nothing else for months—maybe years.
This lack of mobility for children means theoretically, Police, the children’s parents, teachers, and school administrators could know, with far more precision than adults, where each individual kid is at all times. There are only so many places they could be. Let me get this straight, you couldn’t keep drugs away from those very, very few places, if you really wanted to?
Look at the phalanx of supposedly willing guardians of juvenile virtue we have at our disposal. Parents, teachers, administrators, counselors, police. And what about the means for detecting and interdicting drugs: dogs and hyper efficient scientific drug identification devices. Moreover, we could require any student who partakes in any extra-curricular activity from drama, or football to the chess club and the year book committee to take a drug test. So how is it, given all we have at our command to keep kids off drugs, how is it that a new generation of drug users is starting out young in schools across America. The answer would appear to be simple, someone is on the take. It could be as obscure as rich parents bribing a drug lab to make sure that junior’s steroid test comes up clean. Or a high school coach is dealing drugs to his star athletes under the table. Notice that if true drug interdiction was occurring, at least two people have to be corrupt to get past the system. Say the coach and the drug test lab. If the coach is sending bogus samples to the lab, the coach and some negligent parent I are sufficient. If there are kids on drugs in American schools it is because at least two adults in each case is not doing their jobs.
Are there other areas wherein we know someone is on the take? How about the drugs and illegals coming across borders? After 9-11, if our governments’ goal was truly to keep us safe, there will be walls on the borders and armed guards questioning and photographing everyone who comes in. There would be no possibility of a terrorist with a suitcase nuke sneaking across the border in the dead of night in the company of drug dealers and illegals. Every illegal who works in America is breaking at lest two laws. They came across the border illegally and unless the employer has knowingly hired a criminal, the illegal worker has used a stolen social security number. Isn’t that a felony? Gee, how many laws does a foreigner have to break before he is a fugitive as we citizens would be if we committed two felonies? Since illegals depress wages and take jobs from Americans you would think that the unions would be up in arms. Given the statements the Mexican government has made on the matter, Mexico has in effect declared war against the United States and sent a force of millions to invade and occupy us. And why isn’t congress up in arms? Apparently, congress will commit treason for bribes. It would be interesting if we merely treated the illegals the same way Mexico treats people who come across it’s southern border illegally…By the way, the fact that drugs keep coming across the border, when a concerted effort from our government could stop them, is another indication that somebody is on the take.
Children in our society are considerably less free to travel. The exception proves the rule. When a teenager flew to Iraq without his parent’s permission it was big news. Thousands of our soldiers have gone to Iraq—have you seen 100,000 big news stories, one on each individual soldier? You don’t have hours enough in the day to do that much reading. If you tried it, you could read nothing else for months—maybe years.
This lack of mobility for children means theoretically, Police, the children’s parents, teachers, and school administrators could know, with far more precision than adults, where each individual kid is at all times. There are only so many places they could be. Let me get this straight, you couldn’t keep drugs away from those very, very few places, if you really wanted to?
Look at the phalanx of supposedly willing guardians of juvenile virtue we have at our disposal. Parents, teachers, administrators, counselors, police. And what about the means for detecting and interdicting drugs: dogs and hyper efficient scientific drug identification devices. Moreover, we could require any student who partakes in any extra-curricular activity from drama, or football to the chess club and the year book committee to take a drug test. So how is it, given all we have at our command to keep kids off drugs, how is it that a new generation of drug users is starting out young in schools across America. The answer would appear to be simple, someone is on the take. It could be as obscure as rich parents bribing a drug lab to make sure that junior’s steroid test comes up clean. Or a high school coach is dealing drugs to his star athletes under the table. Notice that if true drug interdiction was occurring, at least two people have to be corrupt to get past the system. Say the coach and the drug test lab. If the coach is sending bogus samples to the lab, the coach and some negligent parent I are sufficient. If there are kids on drugs in American schools it is because at least two adults in each case is not doing their jobs.
Are there other areas wherein we know someone is on the take? How about the drugs and illegals coming across borders? After 9-11, if our governments’ goal was truly to keep us safe, there will be walls on the borders and armed guards questioning and photographing everyone who comes in. There would be no possibility of a terrorist with a suitcase nuke sneaking across the border in the dead of night in the company of drug dealers and illegals. Every illegal who works in America is breaking at lest two laws. They came across the border illegally and unless the employer has knowingly hired a criminal, the illegal worker has used a stolen social security number. Isn’t that a felony? Gee, how many laws does a foreigner have to break before he is a fugitive as we citizens would be if we committed two felonies? Since illegals depress wages and take jobs from Americans you would think that the unions would be up in arms. Given the statements the Mexican government has made on the matter, Mexico has in effect declared war against the United States and sent a force of millions to invade and occupy us. And why isn’t congress up in arms? Apparently, congress will commit treason for bribes. It would be interesting if we merely treated the illegals the same way Mexico treats people who come across it’s southern border illegally…By the way, the fact that drugs keep coming across the border, when a concerted effort from our government could stop them, is another indication that somebody is on the take.
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Comment by MaaUpma
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Unfortunately, only extraordinary makes a news. The irony is that we think that this extraordinary is commonplace and start blaiming the society.
The main theme of your post is on children taking to drugs. It is a pity that despite stricter laws all across the world, the drug peddlers and smugglers are still able to sneak in. For them children are easy preys and once dependent on drugs they become life long customers for them. For the nation though it is a big loss as it weakens the future of the country. I will categorize it as a "slow terrorism"
Good Post Michael and quite thought provoking.