Saturday, June 26, 2010

I hate bullies

When I was in the 4th grade, a kid much bigger than I decided for whatever reason he didn't like me. He threatened me one afternoon on my way home from school, and then punched me in the chest. I don't remember doing much, and he simply walked off, probably calling me a choice name or two. I don;t remember him ever bothering me after that. This is the classic bully, though, a coward who simply uses extra size, or strength, or verbal venom to hurt someone else because they can, or because of some need to or desire to get some pleasure. I can't say I have never been one, I know I have. But that is for another time to talk about. Right now I want to go on record as saying I hate bullies, and I hate me when I am passive around them or have been passive and not willing to stand up to them. In the movie "Wanted", the hero of the story is a bullied and passive man whose life is horrible because he refuses to stand up and be taken account of; when he finally does, the world around him is turned upside down, and many people who are bullies wish he had never been awakened. In the movie "Taken", a man's daughter is kidnapped and is being sold as a sex-slave in the Middle East. The sexual bullies who do this have just unleashed on themselves a man whose whole life prepared him to destroy such bullies, which he proceeds to do throughout the movie, to get his daughter back. Everything about the hero character played by Liam Neeson makes you want to stand up at the end and never back down from this sort of bullie who takes a man's daughter for evil purposes; oh I want to me that kind of man.
Bullies: beware. I am here to say I won't tolerate you anymore. You are forewarned.

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