Sic Semper Tyrannis ! - Volume 35: The Decline and Fall of Child Protective Services - Softcover

Martin, William

9781520838656: Sic Semper Tyrannis ! - Volume 35: The Decline and Fall of Child Protective Services

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1520838654 ISBN 13: 9781520838656

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

Chris looked at Bob and told him earnestly, “You know I’m preaching tomorrow night at prayer meeting at Bro -‘s church. We’re gonna have some opponents we’ve never faced before.” Bob said, “Wha’cha mean, lil bro?” Chris dropped on one knee and said, “Look, Bob,, may I speak frankly?” Bob nodded, and Chris continued, “OK, the gay rights crowd have been picketing Bro. -‘s church, because he preaches against sodomy, and doesn’t pull his punches.” Bob’s looked like he’d just been hit in the head with a brick; but he only said, “Oh!” Chris went charging ahead, “They’re not mad at me; at least, not yet. But they know I’ll draw a crowd, that the press usually comes when I show up - so they’re comin to get in on the action.” Chris paused, then asked, “Bob, amado hermano, tell me what to say. Do you think sodomy’s a sin” Bob nodded, “Yeah, of course it is.” Chris raced on, “OK, that’s what the church has always taught, in very generic terms. But today it’s a big issue, and folks are entitled to more specific direction - generalized preaching really won’t suffice.” Look, do you think being gay is a deliberate choice? Does a guy choose to like guys instead of girls?" Bob replied, quite evenly, “I didn’t!” Chris shot back, “Are you attracted to guys instead of girls? Is that why you hang out with us? Have you ever had a girlfriend?” I was shocked he'd dared say that to Bob. Bob’s reaction was - well, interesting. He first drew back his hand like he was going to slap Chris. Chris dropped on one knee, said, “ I had assumed that every mortal is capable of the depths of depravity, but for divine grace. I acknowledge your absolute right to beat me as severely as you care to, without explaining why - you know that. But, if you care to divulge your reason, hermano m�o, why are you punishing me?” Bob hesitated, then turned Chris over his knee, gave him one playful spank with his hand, and said, “That’s what you get for being a pest, Christian!” (and Bob never uses Chris’s fell name.) 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 thirty-fifth volume of a more extensive saga, which traces the course of Billy and his friends as they struggle through the years of adolescence. It should be required reading for every adolescent boy, his parents, and all those who seek to influence him.

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