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This is Progress?



Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.



1973 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to hi s car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 Jack unloads the explosives and starts to shoot the good right wing jocks who’ve made his life miserable because he can’t pass the tests mandated by “No Child Left Behind” mandates because the teachers have to teach the test rather than teach children.


Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.



1973 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.
Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 – Johnny pulls a gun when Mark and 6 of his friends start to beat Johnny’s ass. 3 bystanders killed in the ensuing crossfire.
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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.



1973 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 – Billy grows up hating father because it was an accident and would have learned his lesson anyway. Father shot in the head while he sleeps because Billy realizes the car meant more to his farther than he did.
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Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some
headache medicine to school.



1973 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons because the overused “war on drugs” excuse give authority figures WAY more power over individual choices than they should.

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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1973 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge because:
A) her parents, afraid of what the religious right will think of THEM will disown her or beat her if they find out.
B) Her father raped her and Mary fears he’ll kill her if anyone finds out.
Mary given education about birth control from outside sources because her parents were too busy pushing “Abstinence Education” while forgetting that they had sex as teenagers too.
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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006: Pro-business Republicans make it economically advantageous for big businesses to hire illegal aliens as a cheap labor sources. Illegals pour over the borders for these jobs with pregnant women in tow so they Pedro can be born in America making him a U.S. Citizen with non English speaking parents.

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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed .

1973 - Ants die.

2006 – Johnny recruited into the Army as a demolition expert as soon as he’s old enough to ship out because the Army can’t make its recruiting goals… again.

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Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary.
Mary hugs Johnny to comfort him.



1973 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison unless she’s HOT then she becomes older guys’ masturbation fantasy.