A side question about the the Colorado theater massacre.

Why the (*)(*)(*)(*) were there so many children at a 12:30 AM showing of a movie with such "intense scenes of violence"?

What is wrong with these "parents"? I have seen on the news children ranging from a few months to 14 years old. Trying to research articles on this aspect only reveals "how to talk to your children about what happened" crap.

Here is the only article I could find with any mention of the children... and the author would find my post in poor taste it would seem by the last line.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-children-of-the-colorado-movie-theater-massacre

I disagree with Dr. Sue. Dragging your kids out to watch an adult themed violent movie that begins after midnight is (*)(*)(*)(*) poor parenting. From the reports there were heaps of kids there. There should not have been a single child victim. Not one.

 

Again, this is the result of the Left's social revolution. Another way to put it is that the governor of society was removed and now individuals do what ever they feel like doing. We are slowly moving from a civilized society to a brutal state of nature.


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Its Batman , that is a child's character and they are mature enoough to watch violence.

 

What the hell are you talking about????

 

That is the one of the two posts you choose to ask that question about? Really?

I find the degradation of the social order and values DIRECTLY linked to circumstances of brutality and horror...

and the other post... really?

 

Why dont you just make this simple and explain what the "lefts social revolution" is??? I honest to god have no clue what the hell he is talking about. What does the left`s social revolution have to do with kids at a movie theater at night???? PLEASE , ENLIGHTEN ME!

 

It is the Dark Knight, which is definitely not a child's character. Any idiot can see that.

 

He means that not one Republican would ever dream of taking his child to a movie at midnight. Consequently, the cause of this carnage is directly due to left wing teachings that have dragged the US to gutter levels. That being so, conservatives are absolved from the equation since they only buy guns to defend themselves.

Hence, no response from the audience that night since none were packing.

 

Don't expect any logic or even coherence in lib minority's post.

 

lol awesome.

 

Wait liberals are to blame for one of their own killing them? This is highly illogical because its not proven he is liberal and its not proven that only liberals were wounded there.

There is a pretty good odd that a conservative was there too, maybe got lost or woo'ing a liberal woman to the movies but some were there.

 

Consider yourself enlightened in a narrow context:


"In the United States, the "New Left" was the name loosely associated with liberal, radical, marxist political movements that took place during the 1960s, primarily among college students. At the core of this was the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS.[11] The New Left can be defined as 'a loosely organized, mostly white student movement that advocated for democracy, civil rights and various types of university reforms and protested against the Vietnam war.'[12]
The term "New Left" was popularised in the US in an open letter written in 1960 by sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916–62) entitled Letter to the New Left.[13] Mills argued for a new leftist ideology, moving away from the traditional ("Old Left") focus on labor issues, towards issues such as opposing alienation, anomie, and authoritarianism. Mills argued for a shift from traditional leftism, toward the values of the counter-culture, and emphasized an international perspective on the movement.[14] According to David Burner, C Wright Mills claimed that the proletariat were no longer the revolutionary force; the new agent of revolutionary change were young intellectuals around the world.[15]
Student protest called Free Speech Movement took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and others. In protests unprecedented in this scope at the time, students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom. In particular, on 2 December 1964 on the steps of Sproul Hall Mario Savio gave a famous speech: "...But we're a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to be - have any process upon us. Don't mean to be made into any product! Don't mean - Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!...There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."[16]
The New Left opposed what it saw as the prevailing authority structures in society, which it termed "The Establishment", and those who rejected this authority became known as "anti-Establishment". The New Left did not seek to recruit industrial workers,[citation needed] but rather concentrated on a social activist approach to organization, convinced that they could be the source for a better kind of social revolution.
Many New Left thinkers in the U.S. were influenced by the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Like the British New Left, they recognized problems in the communism of the Soviet Union, but unlike the British New Left, they did not turn to Trotskyism or social democracy. Some in the U.S. New Left argued that since the Soviet Union could no longer be considered the world center for proletarian revolution, new revolutionary Communist thinkers had to be substituted in its place, such as Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro. [17] Todd Gitlin in The Whole World Is Watching in describing the movement's influences stated, "The New Left, again, refused the self-discipline of explicit programmatic statement until too late - until, that is, the Marxist-Leninist sects filled the vacuum with dogmas, with clarity on the cheap." [18]
Other elements of the U.S. New Left were anarchist and looked to libertarian socialist traditions of American radicalism, the Industrial Workers of the World and union militancy. This group coalesced around the historical journal Radical America. American Autonomist Marxism was also a child of this stream, for instance in the thought of Harry Cleaver. Murray Bookchin was also part of the anarchist stream of the New Left, as were the Yippies.[19]
The U.S. New Left drew inspiration from black radicalism, particularly the Black Power movement and the more explicitly Maoist and militant Black Panther Party. The Panthers in turn influenced other similar militant groups, like the Young Lords, the Brown Berets and the American Indian Movement. The New Left was also inspired by SNCC, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. Students immersed themselves into poor communities building up support with the locals.[20] The New Left sought to be a broad based, grass roots movement.[21]
The Vietnam war conducted by liberal President Lyndon Johnson was a special target across the worldwide New Left. Johnson and his top officials became unwelcome on American campuses. The anti-war movement escalated the rhetorical heat, as violence broke out on both sides. The climax came at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
It could be argued that the New Left's most successful legacy was the rebirth of feminism.[22] As the leaders of the New Left were largely white men, women reacted to the lack of progressive gender politics with their own social intellectual movement.[23] Ultimately though the New Left disintegrated, largely because members of the SDS dissatisfied with the pace of change, incorporated violent tendencies towards social transformation. After 1969, the New Left degenerated into radicals and moderate factions, and that same year, the Weathermen, a surviving faction of SDS, attempted to launch a guerrilla war in an incident known as the "Days of Rage." Finally, in 1970 three members of the Weathermen blew themselves up in a Greenwich Village brownstone trying to make a bomb out of a stick of dynamite and an alarm clock. [24]
The New Left was also marked by the invention of the modern environmentalist movement, which clashed with the Old Left's disregard for the environment in favor of preserving the jobs of union workers. Environmentalism also gave rise to various other social justice movements such as the environmental justice movement, which aims to prevent the toxification of the environment of minority and disadvantaged communities.[25]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left

 

interesting read, but i think you are a bit too obsessed. I love bashing a liberal just as much as the next guy, but many republican policies as well as democrat policies have helped put us in this (*)(*)(*)(*)hole we are now in.

 

Exactly.

It's all surmise until the facts are collated. Which is the point I was making.

 

I agree. If they couldn't find a babysitter and just had to see that show, they should have waited, rented it and watched it when the kids were sleeping at home in their own beds.......

To many parents do what they want to do w/little regard to their kids and apparently don't care about the violence they expose them to - like the 6 yr old girl.

 

Anyone with class and common sense wouldn't bring a small child to that movie.

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A child is 'mature' enuf to watch violence..... that's your mentality.

 

Obsessed? You are the guy following me around pretending that you've never heard of the 1960's New Left.

I seriously doubt that, but post a few links to your liberal bashing posts.

Really? Flesh that one out for us.

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As I said, Don, the chance of any parent, being a Republican, with a child, in that theatre, at midnight, is incalculable.

 

I just joined today. Sorry, i dont foam at the mouth like you when it comes to liberals ( or anyone for that matter) . I dont spew hate on a daily basis, so it may take a few days before i really tear into them! But, you will be the first to know when it happens!

 

You are entitled to your opinion.

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What! As a liberal I am entitled to my opinion? Have you been drinking tonight, Don?

 

I feel honored to have enlightened you on your first day! You didn't even have to climb a mountain to find enlightenment. It just doesn't get any better.

I await your examples of "republican policies as well as democrat policies have helped put us in this (*)(*)(*)(*)hole we are now in."


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Yeahh....

[video=youtube;2Tc92UM2Kyk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tc92UM2Kyk[/video]

 

Bank bail outs. War on drugs. Every war from the vietnam and on....... shall I continue?