Sic Semper Tyrannis ! - Volume 24: The Decline and Fall of Child Protective Services - edizione con copertina flessibile

Chris paused, bowed his head, and declared, “We should obey God rather than men!” Then he raised his head, “Here is my answer to CPS!” Chris raised the strap, brought it crashing down across the footstool, repeated, “Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die; thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.” Then he strode over to Bob, offered him the strap, and asked Bob to spank him with it. Bob responded, “Certainly. ‘We should obey God rather than men.’ ” Chris strode over and lay down across the footstool - Bob drew back the strap - and at that point, we heard a voice cry, “Stop!” A uniformed officer came up the aisle, stepped onto the platform, and asked, “Robert D. Martin, Jr.?” In an instant, Chris was on his feet. His first words were, “My bro does not speak Danish, and demands an interpreter.” Well, the officer was determined not to be stopped; Chris demanded Bob see his lawyer, demanded to see the American ambassador; at that point the officer was about twenty feet away from Bob. Chris again warned, “The moment you touch my bro, God will strike you dead - is it worth your life?” He added, “Your two sons, Hans and Heydrich, have no one but you - do you want to leave them to be orphans? Do you want them raised by CPS?” Still, the officer was not deterred. Chris sprang up and physically stepped between him and Bob. The officer lifted Chris off the floor and flung him against the wall. Chris bounded off the wall, and lay down directly in front of Bob, where the officer could not reach Bob without walking over him. The officer lifted his booted foot, Chris rolled over onto his back, so that the officer planted his foot squarely on Chris’s face; the officer moved his foot slightly, and for a fleeting instant his boot rested on Chris’s neck, in the classic pose of conqueror and vanquished - the camera captured the image, and we printed and distributed ten million posters with the picture of CPS’s guy with his boot on Chris’s neck, and the words “Sic Semper Tyrannis!” Sic Semper Tyrannis is a memoir about a time, not so long past, when men were free, religious values were taken seriously. and parents were allowed to pass on the cultural heritage to their children without governmental interference. As David Selznick remarked concerning the Antebellum South, "Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind . . . " This fictional account is the story of what might have been, had Christian parents possessed the courage of their convictions. It depicts the use of spanking and other types of physical correction, from the perspective of an adolescent boy. Twelve year old Billy Martin has been suddenly uprooted from the only home he knows, in liberal Stockholm, and sent to live with his eighteen year old brother, Bob, who has recently joined an ultra-conservative religious group in Idaho.Billy, a high-spirited youth, has been allowed to run at loose ends for his entire life, and has never experienced discipline of any kind. He now finds himself in a vastly different world. Bob immediately sets about bringing his kid brother into line, and giving him the “Biblical discipline” that he, and the other sect members, consider essential to proper child rearing. Billy strives to come to grips with the new reality. While the characters are wholly imaginary, the issues they confront are real, and threaten to undermine the very foundations of our civilization. This work does not contain any erotic material, but is a sobering assessment of today’s child rearing practices in the United States and Western Europe. This is the twenty-fourth volume of a more extensive saga, which traces the course of Billy and his friends as they struggle through the years of adoles