Hello thought police, I greatly disagree with your program to let Americas misunderstood youth be judged and unfairly harassed by the very people that don't understand them, their peers. I wonder what would happen if the tables were reversed and the so-called "normal" kids were given a once over with a fine-toothed comb. I wonder how many of them would turn out to have drug and alcohol abuse problems. Read the Time Magazine that came out after the columbine incident. It was the "normal" students at that school brought about the tragedy. The "popular" kids were so stuck up; they said that Eric and Dylan were jealous because "we are the social elite of the school". These are the people that your company seeks to glean useful information from; the tormentors are not a credible source of information. You may look at the story and see some unmolested loners who for some reason (video games and music [if you are like most near sighted people]) just snapped and decided to kill some people for a thrill. I see deep-seated hate and rage cultivated over time through merciless and constant harassment by the "normal" kids. We live in a society where we pride ourselves for our open mindedness, yet we cannot tolerate kids who are different from our view of normal in our schools. Their peers make fun of them; they snap and give way to one of the most powerful emotions, rage. And yet we blame the tormented and comfort the tormentors. We defile the graves of the tormented while showering gifts on the graves of those who provoked them to act. We blame the music and hobbies of the boys, not a society where people who are out of the main stream are allowed to endure daily psychological warfare from their peers. We are so shocked when they act out. We were also shocked when women and blacks fought for their rights.
Stop lowering the price of privacy. Look at your logo, open your eyes, and see through the blinders society has prepared for you.
PS. Your program reminds me of how the Hitler youth would turn in their parents to the Gestapo.
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{To: The Pinkerton Corporation}
Hello thought police,
I greatly disagree with your program to let Americas misunderstood youth be judged and unfairly harassed by the very people that don't understand them, their peers. I wonder what would happen if the tables were reversed and the so-called "normal" kids were given a once over with a fine-toothed comb. I wonder how many of them would turn out to have drug and alcohol abuse problems. Read the Time Magazine that came out after the columbine incident. It was the "normal" students at that school brought about the tragedy. The "popular" kids were so stuck up; they said that Eric and Dylan were jealous because "we are the social elite of the school". These are the people that your company seeks to glean useful information from; the tormentors are not a credible source of information. You may look at the story and see some unmolested loners who for some reason (video games and music [if you are like most near sighted people]) just snapped and decided to kill some people for a thrill. I see deep-seated hate and rage cultivated over time through merciless and constant harassment by the "normal" kids. We live in a society where we pride ourselves for our open mindedness, yet we cannot tolerate kids who are different from our view of normal in our schools. Their peers make fun of them; they snap and give way to one of the most powerful emotions, rage. And yet we blame the tormented and comfort the tormentors. We defile the graves of the tormented while showering gifts on the graves of those who provoked them to act. We blame the music and hobbies of the boys, not a society where people who are out of the main stream are allowed to endure daily psychological warfare from their peers. We are so shocked when they act out. We were also shocked when women and blacks fought for their rights.
Stop lowering the price of privacy. Look at your logo, open your eyes, and see through the blinders society has prepared for you.
PS. Your program reminds me of how the Hitler youth would turn in their parents to the Gestapo.
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