Civil Disobedience NOT required

[eumelia]

I know it seems like I'm constantly talking about this, but honestly this stuff is scary and so blandly disingenuous that I'm not sure people actually realise the danger of this sort enterprise.

There was a "Police Day" at an elementary school in a small town in the centre of Israel.

Just the title got me prickly with anxiety:

At 'Police Day,' first-graders get to play with real rifles and machine guns

"An educational institution should educate for civic values and independent thought, not admiration for force," said Amit Sharon, whose daughter attends one of the schools. Border Police spokesman Chief Superintendent Moshe Fintzy said the program was authorized and coordinated with the Education Ministry. "We're not like Hezbollah, which train kids to commit suicide," he said.
[...]
[Another parent] noted that although the children understood that all the weapons were used for dispersing demonstrations, there were no explanations about why people held protests or when they might need to be dispersed. "As far as they know now, all protests need to be disbanded by any means necessary. That's hardly education for democracy," he said.

I live in fear of the future generation if this is the public education, especially when one parent is quoted saying:
"the children were very impressed by the demonstrations, especially by the dogs that attacked and stopped someone on command. I don't understand their complaints - there's nothing wrong with demonstrating Border Police activities. It's part of the reality of life here. The kids' tender souls weren't hurt".

Jesus.

Of course, Israeli schools are the "shit" these days, what with racial segregation which is finally being cracked down after years of this shit going on in the Orthodox Settlement of Immanuel.

And yes, when I say Settlement, I mean it is a town built in the West Bank, Palestine. So, yeah.
Racism.

The irony is anvilicious.

Comments

[silveradept]

Oh, how beauitful, how wonderful, how *retch*. Isn't this supposed to be a big enough sign even for the blissfully ignorant that the democracy they think they have is really based on authoritarian principles?

[eumelia]

Authority can never be wrong. Of course.

[teej]

There's nothing wrong with demonstrating Border Police activities. It's part of the reality of life here.

This statement makes me so sad, the thought that this is deemed to be an eternal reality not even worth questioning, or given any thought that it doesn't have to be this way.

[eumelia]

As I said (well Orwell wrote) elsewhere:
"We have always been at war..."

[ironed_orchid]

I'm glad you are there to notice it.

[eumelia]

What upsets me is that even though I notice it, I'm the "abnormal" one for saying that this is wrong.

[ironed_orchid]

Which is exactly what happens when crazy behaviours come to seem normal.