There are many that know. Why do they not speak up? They are morally frail, spiritually challenged and cowards. Doing the “right thing” comes at a price. Integrity is self sustaining, but few have the moral compass to live with the courage of their convictions. A few Patriots still exist.
LA Times 02/07/12 Obituaries opines about several who demonstrated the “Right Stuff”, something one can sadly predict will not happen, will not come out of LAUSD and the LAUSD Teacher’s Union institutional moral values.
Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt the space shuttle Challenger and launch. The night before the 1986 explosion,Jan 28, 1986, Boisjoly and four others argued that joints in the shuttle’s boosters couldn’t withstand a cold-weather launch. NASA tried to blackball Boisjoly from the industry, leaving him to spend 17 years as a forensic engineer and a lecturer on engineering ethics.
Boisjoly was not the only engineer who attempted to stop the launch and suffered for blowing the whistle. Allan J. McDonald was Thiokol’s program manager for the solid rocket booster and became the most important critic of the accident afterward. When he was pressed by NASA the night before the liftoff to sign a written recommendation approving the launch, he refused, and later argued late into the night for a launch cancellation. When McDonald later disclosed the secret debate to accident investigators, he was isolated and his career destroyed.
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The Rogers Commission Report and member Richard P. Feynman, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, famously demonstrated, and exonerate Roger Boisjoly et al as to how the O-rings became less resilient and subject to seal failures at ice-cold temperatures by immersing a sample of the material in a glass of ice water. Roger Boisjoly was right and suffered for it.
When the space shuttle Columbia burned up on reentry in 2003, killing its crew of seven, the accident was blamed on the same kinds of management failures that occurred with the Challenger. Thus began the diminishing and coursing of our culture, fast forward to Miramonte.
It is very puzzling and a “laissez-faire” morality. “Laissez-faire” is French, an essence of clarity, and means “let do”, but it broadly implies “let it be”, or “leave it alone.” What is happening is media hype, institutional defensive pressure, leaving behind, those wonderful souls who spoke up and out about “The Rape of the “Unnamed Girl.”” Here we have thousands if not millions of rapes of the unnamed children. Where are you people when it really, really continues to counts; afraid, disinterested or feeling a bit culpable??? But do not despair, you are in very good company, such as the Catholic Church.
http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/03/the-rape-of-the-unnamed-girl-2/
The Miramonte Elementary School in South L.A.incidents uncovered in February 2012 are not isolated aberrations. It is part and parcel of the cultural tsunami of child pedophilia. What is evident is the dogma “never to reveal to anyone what is confided to, obvious or suspected by me in secret, or publicly, nor to divulge what could cause damage or dishonor to the Miramonte Elementary School, its teachers and administrators, in South L.A.” Secrets (not truth) confirm power. Secrecy is a major tool of secular control and an operational imperative. A whistle blower from within would be crucified.
This is the consequences of the collapse of the moral and cultural “rule of law”. It is an example of how a strong reaction to a moral “wrong” trumps “no legal controlling authority”. And yet there were still many “laws” to handle this crisis. Laws un-enforced are an invitation to chaos.
Our politically correct radical progressivism has begot the 2011, Bell, CA scandal which suppressed and abused the immigrant, both legal and illegal, with overreaching taxes, fines and selfish self-endowments through civic chicanery, encouraged by the cowardice of politicians to enforce the law. “There are no excuses and there are no victims”, a Condoleezza Rice comment in her book “Extraordinary, Ordinary People”. “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence” This is now exposed; systemic, epidemic throughout California and the nation, and very little will be done???
This is a prima fascia case study, a legitimate first conclusion, of the “soft bigotry of low expectations”, radical secularism, far more insidious and dangerous than blatant bigotry, and the “unintended consequences”. This is the basis for the unexplainable and ignorant, uniformed and inexperienced comment by the LAUSD Superintendent of LA Schools, Dr. John E. Deasy; who was reported to have said of these abused children, “it could be worse, nobody died”. There are some things that are competitive with death! There is nothing the LAUSD and the LAUSD Teacher’s Union can do but cling to “teacher’s rights”, articulate openly for but resist silently victims “rights”, retreat and defend an indefensible record of decades of ever declining performance and institutional morality. Wasn’t it always “about the children?” The skirmish lines are drawn and the “guilty”, embarrassed and incompetent will be defended by obfuscation, denial, suppression and settlements.
There are many schools like Miramonte, past and present, predators now hunkering down, under the radar of scrutiny, until the coast is clear. We certainly learned little or nothing from the Church Scandal.
It took an episode of Oprah, a show which explained appropriate and inappropriate touching, watched by a little girl, to open this wound. This is classical and criminal dereliction of duty first and foremost by parents, then teachers, Church (sic), police, LAUSD and LAUSD Teachers Union. Look in the mirror. We allowed this to happen. Few, if any teachers will come forward to champion the children because “those who live in glass house must not throw stones.” Yes, there are many more predators, and many knew, and few of the “good people” have the courage of their convictions.
This is also an example of illiteracy and the “unintended consequences” of illegal immigration. A factor in this disaster is the fear that keeps illegal immigrant parents from confronting the power of the establishment, whether political, police or institutional like schools and churches. And someone noted that every parent at Miramonte should have immediately taken their child out of school and to church (sic). There can be no excuses and thus there should be no victims. The “good people” knew and did nothing! This problem is most assuredly worse in Mexico and the Middle East due to cultural blindness and fear of institutions.
A defensive posture is fronted with comparison to the McMartin preschool trial, a day care sexual abuse case of the 1980s (1984 -1987). It was ugly and there were no convictions and the day care center was closed. These folks were not convicted but whether they were guilty will always be debated. The awareness was high, acute and current. And yet Mark Berndt still slipped, unnoticed into the classroom and playground of children.
The good news was, one doesn’t have to twist, turn and torture the conscience, research the Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal globally ongoing, as to whether children are still being abused by denial, effective litigation, settlements and the relocation of predators the public was alerted too. McMartin Preschool was shut down. So, we do know that regardless, no other children were abused at that day care. And if injustice resulted, it was better handled by the adults, those whose lack of awareness and sensitivity allowed their own demise, than children. There is the argument of the “greater good”. New and better policies, regulations and hopefully termination guidelines were established. They weren’t good enough! And we now see how we can never be vigilante enough.
If there is a sacrifice to made, whether adults or the children should shoulder an injustice, many a culture will always vote for the adults to volunteer. These cultures will survive.
One must explore the ill effects of diminished excellence in education in Los Angeles over many decades, the lack of strong parental involvement (PTA et al) in a community that was hampered by the specter of “illegal immigration”, an internalized message of a fear of discovery and deep seated false inferiority…living down to expectations that a culture, their own, validated by others, had set for them.
As history has shown, there are few that don’t know what is and was going on at Miramonte. If after many years if not decades, those trained to educate and protect children, did not know or suspect, aid or abet, this evil, they were either deft, dumb and blind or complicit. In all cases they were afraid, ignorant, arrogant and clueless. This performance demands “firing” and not relocation and reassignment. Statistics would show that some in the reassigned group will sometime in the future, through knowledge suppressed or criminal activity, will provide the evidence of why this premature district “self defense” will exacerbate the very problem it is attempting to contain, restrain and suppress.
The full scale replacement of teachers and administration at Miramonte Elementary School in South L.A is the exact strategy used by the Catholic Church, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston and Cardinal Roger Mahoney perfected this maneuver within the Catholic Church to combat the exposure of the “truth” to the disinfectant of transparency. And it worked. And this strategy will most likely be used to “Neuter” the case against Penn State.
Here we see the destruction rained down on children by a Congress and Administration, prior and present, unwilling to effect fair, honest and balanced immigration, teaching and moral policies. This is why governments must not legislate morality. But then what does one expect of a culture that condones the abortion of viable fetuses. We don’t even enforce the laws we have on the books and we sue those that do.
Disruption and disintegration of the institutional structures, LAUSD, LAUSD Teachers Union, preceded as a case study by the Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal, could mean the end of the system of power and control as they once knew it. This poses an unthinkable, but necessary, threat to the public union culture and to the public governance world. Consequently these massive institutions seek above all to preserve themselves. Sexual abuse of children or anyone by members of the secular or clerical elite is potentially disastrous for the image, credibility and hence the power of the mores, the unions and secular institutions like LAUSD and, LAUSD Teachers Union.
As with the Challenger and the Columbia space shuttles, some must suffer, severe penalties, for the affirmatives of those “good people” who would do nothing. In today’s world, a present day example is the sexually abused children. It is essential to embrace the wisdom of Albert Einstein; “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” There is no solution within the constraints of the present day structure of LAUSD and the LAUSD Teachers Union.
Very little of the “truth” will be exposed, hopefully enough for radical change. We will rage over this event, a defensive posture for those of us feeling just a little “guilty”. There is no denying that we knew. We were not there for the kids, thus they will live with the curse and the memory. However, “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” Mohandas Gandhi. Sorry, Gandhi fails me here; this absolution (sic) does not work for me.
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