AS I understand it whats really happening is that N. Korea only wants to talk to the U.S. because in the past when they have pulled stuff we have given them money to stop. We are not willign to do that this time and so have only agreed to meet with them when All countries directly impacted by the situation are present for the talks.
Don't try do an end run around the law, and then whine when you're treated like a criminal, like the parents and the kids in the article did.
Your evaluation is flawed. The tree in question was on public land not private land. The children had a right to play there. Neither the parents nor the children probably knew that damaging this tree in a "park" where children play was illegal at all. Nor did they consider what they were doing as destroying a tree.
And given that the Holocaust wasn't legal then, and wouldn't be legal now, I think you're beating a straw man to death.
The holocaust was most certainly legal. It was immoral and horrible but nothing in the German laws forbade it. There's this little thing called sovereignty (sp i know).
Returning to the original point of the article: I remember, I *did* start to break a branch off a public tree once (a willow tree, if I recall correctly). I was about four years old, and my parent furious with me, stopped me then and there, and make it clear in no uncertain terms that I was never to do anything like that again. I never did. In this case, the kids were twelve, not four -- the lesson should have been learned by then. The parents should have been there to watch them. Once the police told them, the kids should have known what they did wrong. The parents should not have turned the situation into a media circus, and tried to paint themselves as the aggrieved parties; rather, they should have admitted to their own poor parenting, and vowed to correct it.
Times have changed; and not for the better...
I'm sorry your parents were so hard on you for something so inconsequential. I now understand why you have such insane views.
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AS I understand it whats really happening is that N. Korea only wants to talk to the U.S. because in the past when they have pulled stuff we have given them money to stop. We are not willign to do that this time and so have only agreed to meet with them when All countries directly impacted by the situation are present for the talks.
Don't try do an end run around the law, and then whine when you're treated like a criminal, like the parents and the kids in the article did. Your evaluation is flawed. The tree in question was on public land not private land. The children had a right to play there. Neither the parents nor the children probably knew that damaging this tree in a "park" where children play was illegal at all. Nor did they consider what they were doing as destroying a tree. And given that the Holocaust wasn't legal then, and wouldn't be legal now, I think you're beating a straw man to death. The holocaust was most certainly legal. It was immoral and horrible but nothing in the German laws forbade it. There's this little thing called sovereignty (sp i know). Returning to the original point of the article: I remember, I *did* start to break a branch off a public tree once (a willow tree, if I recall correctly). I was about four years old, and my parent furious with me, stopped me then and there, and make it clear in no uncertain terms that I was never to do anything like that again. I never did. In this case, the kids were twelve, not four -- the lesson should have been learned by then. The parents should have been there to watch them. Once the police told them, the kids should have known what they did wrong. The parents should not have turned the situation into a media circus, and tried to paint themselves as the aggrieved parties; rather, they should have admitted to their own poor parenting, and vowed to correct it. Times have changed; and not for the better... I'm sorry your parents were so hard on you for something so inconsequential. I now understand why you have such insane views.
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