Texas judge under fire over discipline video

Looks to me that the father was the one being the thug here and was not properly disciplined as a child.

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're all evil godless libruls. Change the record already.

 

I'm not going to apologize for calling something that is vile, violent and despicable exactly what it is. The daughter may well indeed have been a brat - teenagers frequently are - but that does not excuse that kind of viciousness from her parents.

 

Freeatlast, I'm a liberal's liberal and you are an idiot.

Timeouts were unheard of in my parent's home. Rather I faced the same sort of "punishment" that this girl did and suffered it whether it was called for or not. (and in my house that depended on which way the wind of my mother's mind was blowing)

This was abuse pure and simple. The fact that the girl was intelligent enough to know what was about to happen and set up the recorder means she had faced similar violence in the past and was strong enough to realize that it was abuse.

This man lost his temper, pure and simple. He wasn't out to discipline his daughter, he was out for revenge that she dared to disobey. Her mother shouldn't have tolerated it, participated in it or lived with him as long his anger was out of control in this manner. And yes, I know EXACTLY what I am saying.

Not only did my mother regular beat me, but she often pushed my father into it as well. Even when it became crystal clear that my mother was a liar and a crazy one at that(literally mentally ill) my father ALWAYS took her part and completely failed to protect us children from her. At least this girl's mother is finally standing up and taking responsilibity in part for her own actions. It's more than I've ever gotten.

So, Freeatlast, you go on a beat your kids out of anger and use that as your only tool of discipline when something else would be more effective because it feels good to release that anger you are holding onto your child becasue you have a "reason" too. The results of that? Oh well my biological donors will never meet their great grandchildren because of how they behaved/still behave and they rarely see any of the progeny of their line. So you keep going on the way you are and don't come around wondering why your grown children don't have anything to with you.

You ought to be ashamed.

 

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Menageriekeeper, :thumbsup:. (If that means I'm a liberal in Freeatlast's eyes, then I'm proud to be called that rather than be a supporter of a vicious thug of a so-called man.)

 

freeatlast you are an enemy of God. You are against His teachings. I pray you will repent and turn from your wicked ways.

 

No sir, the difference is, you believe the Bible condones child abuse and the rest of us do not.

Your remarks are disgusting and offensive to those of us who have survived abuse. Maybe you should re-read your Bible and learn what God has to say about fathers not provoking their children to wrath. . .and what is says about those who hurt children having a millstone strung around their neck and tossed into the sea.

 

FAL, you are a very wicked man. I'm going to pray that God either moves your heart to repent or takes you to your eternal destiny before you do too much more damage here.

 

I would laugh at this if I thought you weren't serious:

So you are saying if we don't agree the Bible says to beat our children in an abusive manner that we not only don't believe the Bible, but God doesn't hear our prayers????

Who are YOU to claim something like this? Does that copy of scripture you claim to be reading from tell you have the corner on how it should be interpreted? Does it make you high priest over us here at the BB? You really need to go back and read it again.

And you should still be ashamed for condoning child abuse and encourging spousal abuse.

 

Beat the child to often and for the wrong things and you will provoke him to wrath.

It's not that us liberals don't want the things of God in our lives but that we interpret these sorts of scriptural oneliners by the words of Christ:

"love thy God and love thy neighbor as thyself, on these two hand the Law and prophets" (Cindi's paraphrase)

It was neither love for God nor love for that child that provoked the judge to beat her in the manner he did. It's not love for God nor love for that child that causes you to protect the father for his wrongdoing. As a matter of fact, I can't understand why you continue to hold to the position you do.

At least you backed off the idea that God isn't hearing our prayers.....

 

I think you need to work on your own spiritual issues. I'm rarely as harsh as I am with you, but I have no patience for child abusers. Please tell me you don't have children.