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There was no way the parent could have anticipated this.
I mean look how she was dressed, she was basically asking for it....
They know the most dangerous are the least obvious, like a terrorist disguised as a little girl in a butterfly covered shirt.
/S (just in case)
The world isn't a safe place, and it doesn't get any safer when you turn 18; there's no point in keeping the kids home as if that protection is anything more than a delay of the inevitable. It's important to teach the next generation that the government is not their friend, and the way you do that is by showing them that the flag they're forced to pledge their allegiance to every day in school is the same one that will attack them for suggesting that there be liberty and justice for all. The kids out on the streets today will be the ones leading their peers in the battles they'll be forced to fight against the government as adults.
Oh yes, because a child getting pepper sprayed is such a good way to teach someone her age a lesson...
Also you cannot be forced to recite the stupid pledge of allegiance. There are plenty of shitty things happening to discuss without perpetuating lies.
The thing about "forced" is that it can be soft or hard. Sure, you have the option to not say it, but how many children realize they even have that option? Your teacher says "okay kids, we have a new song to sing!" and you do it because you're a kid.
Me and all my peers said it every day without thinking at all about the words and what they mean. It was just what everyone was doing. That's exactly how they teach you to fall in line - not with physical force, but with expectation and the desire to fit in.