Growing up in a Reserve, I sure saw a lot of bullies. Today many of those bullies are old and feeble. Some are not so feeble but sure live a life of misery. Bullying is all over the place. We see it in the face of our politicians: Prime Minister Harper is a bully with great power. All bullying upsets me, regardless if it is the powerful countries picking on poor countries or even the bullying that goes on with their own people.
But the bullying that upsets me is the bullying at this moment is the bullying that causes a young person to take their own life. Can you imagine how awful a young child must feel, that their only way out is to end their life? What the fuck is wrong with this picture. Not sure of what could be done to stop this. The government can pass laws to ban bullying or to punish the people who are bullies. But is that really the answer? I don't know.
I wish it was easy to say don't do that, or do this and issues could be taken care of, but that is not how the world is really like. What causes bullying anyway?
This is really sick, even after this young man (boy) took his own life, the bullies still continue to bully him. What the fuck???
A young girl of 15 was buried the other day. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/11/30/teen-suicide-bullying.html
It sure must be awful to be her family; anger, hurt, immeasurable sadness. I wonder if those that bullied her
will ever understand what they have done?
An Ottawa Teen suicide linked to being bullied.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/10/17/hubley-ottawa-teen-suicide-bullying_n_1016828.html
"The disturbing rash of LGBT teen suicides began receiving attention last fall. Among those who took their own life was 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers University student who jumped off the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York after his roommate allegedly filmed him having sex with another man."
The latest suicide linked to being bullied.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/12/03/marjorie-raymond-suicide-teen-bullying.html
We are living in the world where “bullies rule”. It seems that “strong” means ruthless, mean, cruel and ignorant. Kindness is translated to weakness, being genuine to being stupid. We of all people should know better and it hurts like hell to see the enemy’s ways (that’s how my Elders call it) on the rez.(If You can stomach a gallery of monsters check Eddie Peltier’s murder case by Cat West: http://www.walkingsky.com/restless/1.html,check”Players”.Then there is an outstanding perv: William Melchert Dinkiel –a nurse, a father ,a husband whose hobby was surfing the net for depressed teens to incite them into suicide.). The finest of our youth, the most sensitive and gifted are often trampled on our “own territory”. Talking about bullies, I do not care if they were bullied themselves, if they are nasty little girls or guys who can’t grow a pair –for me a bully rhymes with a bullet. A great weapon that people are too selfish to use is solidarity. Give me a group of scared “nerds”=I’ll turn them into disciplined fighters; give me a team of bullies-useless in combat. Being a warrior has to do with loyalty, discipline, values. For any community bullies are a waste of space. The kids who suicide are our fallen soldiers, we need to honour their memory. I believe that the totems You were giving to Your son is the medicine we need to give to the younger ones to help them survive.Nohwa nano'nii - he is keeping it for You.
ReplyDeleteI think you are right. I wonder why kindness is seen as being weak, but that's the way it is? I remember that guy in Mn who did "counsel" kids into killing themselves. It was a woman in England that caught him. It was a hard journey for her to get the police to listen. That man ruined lives. That is what a bully can do, ruin lives.
ReplyDelete...And bullying has become a life-style for so many cowards.Interestingly Dinkiel received 360 days in jail plus some laughable "community service"and peanuts to pay to families of two victims while e.g our own Clifford Laframboise "an 18-year prison sentence for stealing a man’s watch and $20 from a Rapid City church office in two separate break-ins as a young man".Makes me want to howl-happily there are still other wolves to share the call.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201010/suicide-nurse-mark-drybrough-chatrooms-li-dao
ReplyDeleteI remember this guy. A woman in England started the search to end this guy's sick aim to get people to kill themselves.