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Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts
Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.
I suppose simply unfriending her would not be feasible. (Maybe she'd take away his computer if he tried or punish him or something)
There are clear and easy alternatives. Delete her posts after she makes them, or even better, use Facebook privacy controls to remove her ability to comment on his posts. I'm kinda surprised he didn't put her on Limited Profile, like everyone else seems to do. That's the best because people don't always realize they're being shut out of something.
One word: Arkansas.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
I heard a story a few days where Parents lost custody of their kid because, "They were teaching the child that the government can not be trusted."
Because prisonplanet and infowars are news websites of great repute. Oh wait...
According to the article; she isn't his costodian, and she didn't just post on his wall; she stole his password and posted to his wall as him. So identity theft much? Computer crime much?
The fact that a Judge granted the restraining order against a women on behalf of a 16yo male(son) also should be a good indication of the situation.
I heard a story a few days where Parents lost custody of their kid because, "They were teaching the child that the government can not be trusted."
Citation?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Or do you think that all the less worthwhile people should just die already to make more room for the rest of us?
Yes. And I work for a human services agency. Come work here and see what some people are capable of and then get back to me about how "very few people are truly worthless". I can find nothing redeeming in the individual that would put her drug habit and boyfriend ahead of her kids. I can find nothing redeeming in the individual that prostituted her 11 year old out to repay a drug debt. I can find nothing redeeming in the individual that uses lame ass excuses like "I can't afford gas" (particularly when my agency GIVES THEM GAS MONEY) to avoid having to see their kids.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Well if ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, et cetera are censoring the news by ignoring these stories, then you have to turn to alternate sources.
Do you have any proof that the story you referred to is being censored by those news outlets? Do you have any citation to any public records to show that this incident actually happened? I've read the story both on infowars and prisonplanet and neither of them have any details. They make vague claims about a "couple in texas" that had their kid taken away. Considering these websites long track record of posting bullshit and phoney stories, you'd have to be a nutjob to believe it.
Umm, left out the part about the illegal drugs being found in their residence and the fact that their anti-government views were but ONE of the claims levied against them.
Mind you, I don't think marijuana should be illegal but it rather changes your story when you discover that the parents were arrested on drug charges before CPS got involved. You shouldn't have left that detail out.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
If a child's willing to go that far, it's probably a safe bet that their family's already pretty fucked up.
Ignoring made-up stuff by nutjobs seems a legitimate role for news organisations.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Don't blame "Society" for his mistakes... "We" didn't let him down. He did it all by himself.
Nature versus nurture, my friend.
It is easy to blame them when they're despicable people. But your emotional satisfaction doesn't obviate the observation that different situations can lead to different results under otherwise similar circumstances.
I failed to see mention of race in the post. Perhaps the racism resides within you.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
They had their loser-nature beaten into them by circumstance
I honestly could care less. I've met people that have survived far worse than the "parents" of the kids my agency works with. None of them are putting cigarettes out on their kids or prostituting them out for money and/or drugs. Circumstance only goes so far as a rationalization for bad behavior and there comes a point when the individual needs to be held accountable for his or her choices.
Most of the real sociopathic parasites on the ass of society are CEOs or board members of Fortune 500 companies, not sad children of broken families.
Umm, at what point have I said that the children are parasites? I believe I was reserving my bile for their so-called parents.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
You confuse cynicism with a lack of passion. I care greatly for the clients that we service. I just think that the people who fucked them up badly enough to require our services aren't deserving of any further consideration from civilized society.
Also, fuck you. I'll work wherever the hell I feel like, thank you very much.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Congratulations on doing exactly what you chastised the poster for; making an assertion and then providing no proof.
What the fuck are you talking about? The sole citation for his claim is a story that has little to no actual facts, such as the names of this couple or the name of the city and county that the incident supposedly happened in, that can be used to verify the incident. Nor can you find any public records to back up the claims in the story. Lastly, Alex Jones has been well-known for making up stories that routinely turn out to be false. I'm not sure what part of anything I've stated is an assertion without proof. My statements come from actually having read the story.
Bravo on being modded insightful for such obvious hypocrisy.
Bravo for being an idiot.
It takes a hell of a lot to get your child taken away from you if you are female. If the situation were reversed, the father would have lost custody in an instant.
It takes a hell of a lot to get your child taken away from you if you are female. If the situation were reversed, the father would have lost custody in an instant.
plus alimony, plus child support, plus jail time, plus...
"Educate the mind but never at the expense of the soul."~Blessed Basil Moreau
The place I see "racism" is in the very idea of the assumption that anyone from the south deserves to be denigrated and disrespected automatically, as if there are no ignorant people or bigots from elsewhere.
What you describe is bigotry and prejudice, not racism. Clearly there are bigots elsewhere as evidenced by the post you are complaining about (which if you think about it is beautifully ironic). Having visited the rural south of the US for the first time a couple of weeks ago I found the people extremely polite and friendly and the countryside was beautiful. So if some of your fellow citizens don't appreciate that just be thankful that it will probably help you stay that way.
From Wikipedia entry for Arkadelphia:
"The racial makeup of the city was 68.98% White, 26.51% Black or African American, 0.53% Native American, 1.29% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.35% from other races, and 1.28% from two or more races. 2.59% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race."
So, what race of this variegated city is being prejudged here?
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