{"id":1579,"date":"2007-04-24T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2007-04-24T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:11:27","slug":"kicking-ass-for-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"Kicking Ass For Civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who's to blame for the VT killings ? Hmmm... Let's see if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55333\">Chuck Norris<\/a> knows.<\/p>\n<ul>Though one can point to Cho's own psychotic behavior and our graphic slasher media as potential contributors to his deplorable murder spree, we must also hesitate to consider how we as a society are possibly contributing to the growth of these academic killing fields.<\/ul>\n<p>Nah, fuckadatshit - what am I, my brother's keeper ? But about our \"graphic slasher media\"... Do you, Chuck, mean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chucknorris.com\/html\/film.html\">this stuff<\/a>... ?<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/chuck1.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\nA Force Of One - 1978<br \/>\nThe Octagon - 1979<br \/>\nAn Eye For An Eye - 1980<br \/>\nSilent Rage - 1981<br \/>\nForced Vengeance - 1981\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nLone Wolf McQuade - 1982<br \/>\nMissing In Action - 1984<br \/>\nMissing In Action II: The Beginning - 1985<br \/>\nCode Of Silence - 1985<br \/>\nInvasion USA - 1985\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/chuck2.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/chuck3.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\nDelta Force - 1986<br \/>\nFirewalker - 1986<br \/>\nBraddock: Missing In Action III - 1987<br \/>\nHero And The Terror - 1988<br \/>\nDelta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold - 1990\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nThe Hitman - 1991<br \/>\nSidekicks - 1993<br \/>\nHellbound - 1994<br \/>\nTop Dog - 1995<br \/>\nForrest Warrior\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/chuck4.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>No, probably not. That's not graphic \"slasher\" media, that's graphic <i>ass-kickin, gun fetish, revenge fantasy<\/i> media, which is completely unrelated to a mentally disturbed kid playing out his revenge fantasies with guns. <\/p>\n<p>Does that mean I think Chuck is responsible for what happened at VT? Nope. But I do think Chuck should be a little more careful where he swings that broad brush of his. Personally, I'd like it if we could dial-back on the amount of violence in movies of all kinds - including Chuck's kind.<\/p>\n<ul>If we are ever to restore civility in our land and our schools, we must turn back the clocks to a time when such shocking crimes didn't even exist \u00e2\u20ac\u201c when we valued life and respected one another much more then we do today.<\/ul>\n<p>Chuck, being a Bible nut as well as a foot-and-gun nut, should know that the only time such shocking crimes didn't exist were the years between Adam and Eve's first big adventure and the murder of their son, Abel, by their other son, Cain. I'm not sure I want to turn the clocks back that far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who's to blame for the VT killings ? Hmmm... Let's see if Chuck Norris knows. Though one can point to Cho's own psychotic behavior and our graphic slasher media as potential contributors to his deplorable murder spree, we must also hesitate to consider how we as a society are possibly contributing to the growth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}