From: Barking@The.Moon   
      
   > > Oct 21, 2003   
   > > Troubling days at U.S. schools Spate of violence raises alarm   
   > > By Greg Toppo   
   > > USA TODAY   
   > >   
   > > The 2003-04 school year is only a few weeks old, but a string of fatal   
   > > shootings, stabbings and other attacks threatens to make it one of the   
   > > deadliest in years.   
   > > Since mid-August, when most students returned to class, the nation's   
   > > public schools have seen 18 violent deaths, more than in either of the   
   > > previous two years, according to experts and USA TODAY research. That   
   > > does not include about 50 non-fatal incidents.   
   > > Young people are dying at the hands of classmates, strangers and even   
   > > parents in big cities and small towns. There have been shootings in and   
   > > around high schools and middle schools in Chicago and Cold Spring,   
   > > Minn., gang feuds in Tucson, stabbings and fistfights in Fort Worth and   
   > > Green Cove Springs, Fla., and apparent murder-suicides in San Diego and   
   > > Hopkinsville, Ky. Police have wounded armed students in standoffs in   
   > > Spokane and Sacramento.   
   > > Though there have been no large-scale shootings like those at Columbine   
   > > High School in 1999, which killed 15, the high number of incidents is   
   > > baffling experts, who say school violence is usually worst in the spring   
   > > -- pointing to a rough year ahead.   
   >   
   >   The kids are in chaos cause the parents are in a state of economic   
   > and social flux.Family life as we used to know it is virtually   
   > vanished.Jobs are disappearing forever due to automation and   
   > outsourcing overseas.These kids are not stupid.I hope they are MORE   
   > rebellious in the future but instead of turning that anger on each   
   > other organize to change this decadent society.   
   >    "I hope you see the storm thats in the valley   
   >     I hope you know you're right from wrong"   
   >                   Riverman   
      
      
   Agreed on all points Riverman -   
      
   There was always a tremendous fear back in the 80's regarding automation and   
   it's effect on jobs, people being replaced by robots and computers, and it   
   has come to pass. I dont think that we've seen the end of it either.   
      
   Globalism is killing developed economies and gentrifying the Earth. We are   
   in desperate need of a new economic/philosophical tact.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)