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Natural law will deliver the reckoning for bullies
Kootenay Crust
Violence begets violence.
And if you don’t understand that and behave like a thug you’re headed for a sorry headlong tumble that will eventually end you like a bug on a windshield.
Our world suffers under the torments presented by those who perceive themselves as ‘strong’ – from the basest street pukes to high end politicians/dictators and corporate masters – as they wield their demands without pause or consideration to the damage they are inflicting on people or a society.
Eat or be eaten; kill or be killed; move forward or be run over – yada yada yada.
They are the greediest, most self-serving people there are and thanks to the glorious flower of doom that is karma, they always get theirs in the end. Sometimes the fools don’t even know they’re getting their comeuppance, but they get it. That’s the amazing thing about the universe. We may think it isn’t ‘working’ for us, but it does work in mysterious ways and it works at its own pace. But when it ‘gets there,’ the results are always the same with thugs and bullies – they plead for the respect they’ve refused to give others and they beg for their lives or health.
Some of them convince cops to back off, or corporate weasels get massive buyouts so they can take their ‘ways’ elsewhere. Those are the lucky few.
Karma is also often a cold maniac and those meeting their reckoning are not given any quarter. Those people will wish their reckoning came with a police badge but it doesn’t. It comes with determined, calculating savagery and the cycle of violence comes complete. Violence begets violence.
Bullies are all the rage again it seems, thanks to the terrible tale of Amanda Todd, 15. Even in death, sick sacks of skin are continuing with their chickencrap behaviour and posting garbage on the web. They are psychopaths who need to be rounded up and punished severely.
New laws need to be enacted that target cyber-bullies. The decorum and social exchange norms established over the centuries are dropped on the floor and stepped on by far too many people using the Internet.
We’ve all encountered buffoons and halfwit meatheads on the web. For example, many of the ‘people’ who post comments at the bottom of sports stories, usually attacking other posters, are flat out bully louts. They would never dream of speaking to people like that in person. The Internet by its very sweeping scale and the perceived but non-existent anonymity, under which these predators believe they are operating, is creating an entirely new breed of bully. They are bullies who have never balled a fist and hit someone, or faced the possibility of immediate in-kind reprisal. They are the foulest of predators and scum because they strike from the dark and then fade back into it when the deed is done.
I believe the spike in bullying is stemming from the ‘digital age’ because it is darned easy to be a cyber-bully. Unsupervised children get into bullying because they feel invincible. Their puny child minds don’t understand that their every move in cyberspace can be retraced and they think they have an invisible shield protecting them and allowing them to continue their torment.
With all that said, I dearly hope the authorities hunt down those who bullied and are continuing to bully Amanda Todd.
It is time that we as a society made an extremely loud and clear statement: bullying will not be tolerated.
My own daughter experienced severe bullying when she was the exact same age as Amanda Todd. She was wolf-packed by a small group of little bitches, in person and on the web. It became so bad that she moved from the U.S. to live with me for a year to escape it. It hurt her deeply and the twisted thing is she could have ended it with one ill-advised act.
My daughter earned her black belt in tae-kwon-do at an early age, I am proud to say. And she was extremely well-trained. The nasty little bitches sniping and jabbing at her could have been dealt with in one well-placed kick. I watched my daughter, at that time, kick branches off trees when we were gathering firewood for a cookout one evening. The accuracy and strength of her kicks told me she could have solved her problems with violence.
Despite me telling her I’d have her back if she did opt to move the location of one of the girl’s pecking beaks when they next attacked, she refrained from violence. As I say, she was well-trained and I am proud of her for not using her training in self defense. Like almost all victims of bullying, she suffered in silence and loneliness. In time, she returned to the U.S. and resumed her life there and as it is wont to do, time’s passage altered the course of events and the nasty little bitches focused on someone else to torment.
But what happened to Amanda Todd strikes home with a vengeance. It is likely this ‘case’ will result in renewed efforts to establish a much greater level of policing presence on the Internet.
All respectable websites have rules and regulations for people to follow, such as proper etiquette, but the savage stalkers continue to tap about unchallenged, for the most part. So steps taken to cut into their fun would be well-taken; the problem is the lack of clarity as to exactly where the fine line of encroachment into personal freedoms is crossed.
We don’t need Big Brother in the Orwellian sense but we need big brother in the grand family sense.
When I was in Grade 2 I was being harassed by a couple of thugs in Grade 6. One day they went too far and hurt me. I had a brother at home who was nine years my senior. When he found out what happened, after I came home from school beaten up, he hopped on his bike’s banana seat and pedaled off to find the pair. When I caught up with him, he was in the ditch by my old elementary school – Mountbatten – and my two assailants were beneath him, crying their sorry eyes out.
My big brother Dave gave ‘em a royal snot stomping and I never had an issue with them again.
Recognizing the effectiveness of responding to immediate threats or loutish behaviour with a well-laced fist or foot carried me through my school years and I never suffered from bullying again.
Most bullies are chickenshits. If you stand up for yourself – most of the time the bully or bullies will move on to less formidable challenges. Even though they are too stupid to be aware of it, that is merely physics at work. Note I say “most of the time.”
That’s the rub. One can’t rely on the odds when it comes to personal safety. Some bullies are terrifying savages and it is potentially reckless and imperiling to suggest to someone, who is not so prone, to fight back.
That’s where numbers come in.
Society: it is time to stand up and truly say ‘no’ to bullies and to the rat-bastards out there who excel at acts of random violence in attempts to quell the raging of the monsters in their heads.
Over the decades, towns have fallen prey to bursts of violence and eventually, the other shoe drops and the towns have fought back. When this happens, the thugs fall out of sight or leave town out of fear of retribution. I was front and centre of such a movement thanks to being a journalist and experiencing threats from small town punks constantly being dragged through ineffective courts.
The threatening thugs didn’t win that time, because of strength in numbers and because of… a little bit of the old ‘ultra violence.’
Violence begat violence in that instance as I had the much bigger and far more dangerous friend with me. Again, the threats ended and a noticeable sigh went through the town as the acting up youth wisely started acting down.
A mob was being organized to ‘deal with them’ before that incident and thankfully, the mob wasn’t needed.
And that’s the message I wish to impart to any thug cretin who might actually have part of a functioning brain and is reading this: violence begets violence, eventually. Physical or emotional violence – it doesn’t matter.
Because karma is a relentless force, especially when its range is bolstered by the majority.
Bullies and their ilk are the minority. I think it’s time that our society reminded them of that fact.
When the time comes that the mob starts to rule, those who have hurt others just because shall be the first to fall. That is nature’s natural mathematics – that is karma.
It’s time to stand up, society, and say “enough is enough.”
Stand down, thugs and bullies, because a reckoning is coming, in cyberspace and in the real world.
Ian Cobb/e-KNOW
