Bullying

Today there is a lot of attention on bullying, and in many cases rightly so.  I just read an article where an elderly lady who is a bus monitor, probably not any longer, was bullied by the students for at least the length of the video taken, which was 10 minutes. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75VD-L0SDac).  I warn you, if you watch this it has strong language and will make you very angry, or at least I hope it would.

People of all ages, all races and both sexes are bullied for various reasons, and the results can be catastrophic.  We hear all the time that students kill themselves because they just could not take the bullying, or they get vengeance by going on killing sprees.  Many start purging, cutting, acting out and many other manifestations.  Bullying definitely has impact on our youth, especially the defenseless.

Today there is a movement to stop this and help those that cannot necessarily help themselves because they are alone when bullied.  We are trying to help those who cannot for one reason or another help themselves in these situations because of the predicament.  

When we are trying to stop bullying we are trying to stop those who use their power to affect the life of another human being in a negative way.  We don’t want people to use their influence or power to negatively affect someone else in a hurtful or demonstrative manner.   We are trying to protect the “innocent.” 

Unless that innocent person resides in the womb, than we can bully them all we want without recourse.  We can take their life and they have no say what so ever.  A baby in the womb is the most “innocent,” helpless life that has done nothing to no one, and yet we make laws that allow us to bully them (kill them) with no recourse or outcry.  How can this be? 

Seriously, think about it.  The poor woman was called all kinds of names on the bus and terrorized for at least 10 minutes, and the public reaction has been awesome at this heinous act, but she got to wake up in the morning and the kids are going to be punished.  A baby in the womb gets murdered by an abortion and nothing.  That life is lost, does not get to wake up and instead of public distaste, there are laws saying, go for it.

We tell people not to bully others, but do we actually walk that walk as a nation, when we make laws protecting some of the worst kind of bullying that happens in our society.  The killing of the innocent.