RIGHT THIS WAY for a discussion on being left the fuck alone.

Watch this little video, and then we’ll chat.

Let me ask you people something… 

Do  you think anyone should have to be subjected to this sort of behavior in public?

I mean, suppose you pop on down to your local Walmart to pick up a some socks, a box of Mounds and maybe grab a burger at the Mc Donald’s in there, and some kid like this cuts loose, should you have to put up with it?

Sure, I know that kids act up at odd times, but does that mean he should just be allowed to have his fit while life tries to go on around him?

Or suppose a situation where you’re almost positive your kid will act up and twist off while you’re out at some public venue or other;  do you have the right to subject the rest of us to his, or her, unbecoming and grotesquely annoying behavior?

Of course not.

One other question, then I have a guest on the program today…

Does it matter to you why the kid in this video is screaming his fucking head off, and making life miserable for everyone else?

No, I didn’t think it did, nor do I think you should give a millisecond’s attention to why. Who gives a shit? 

Well, this morning on Facebook, someone posted something about how autistic and “special needs kids,” (that’s code for “retards”) just want to be treated like everyone else, or some shit, and I agreed, said I felt sorry for the kids, and then added that people with autistic kids who twist off in public should keep them away from normal people, so we can go on about our lives being left alone and unmolested, and you would have thought I had called for their beheading. (Which is exactly what will happen after the muslims finish taking over.)

A friend of mine,  a man of obvious low taste with a complete lack of class, came to my support. He’s a lot more elegant with his speech than I am. He puts things just right, and I agree with him, completely, as well as thank him.

I’ve made a couple edits to fit form and function here on the  ole Emporium, but his words are otherwise unchanged.

…ahem…

So here I sit this fine Thursday morning, visiting my favorite coffee “shop”, Facebook, and I see Unc in some amount of “discussion” with some liberal mother of a screaming child who has ADHD or Autism or some other malady and how “we all need to be tolerant of that behavior because she and the child and the mother have “rights””. At least that’s her position from what I took away from that discussion. Well, in an ideal world that would be just grand. This ain’t an ideal world though. As that great Sage, Raymond Pancahrian, Ukiah High School World History teacher once said – “We all have certain rights that are guaranteed by the United States Constitution, however those rights do have limits. Those limits are most easily identified as that line which, if crossed, infringes on someone else’s Constitutional rights”, or something pretty damned close to that.

So in the instant case, we have Unc, hypothetically sitting in the Weberstown Mall in Stockton, CA enjoying a great cup of java from the local bistro, or perhaps he’s eating strawberry tarts and drinking pink lemonade, but who cares, this is my story. So there he sits, soaking in all of the sights of the mall, enjoying reading his SacBee newspaper, enjoying the world going on around him, and all of a sudden some screaming idiot of a kid is running loose in the area where Unc is, shrieking and making a general asshole of himself and pissing almost everyone off with his antics. I say almost because dear sweet mommy is sitting there enjoying her day out in the free world and ignoring her screaming banshee because, well because that’s how he acts all the time and it’s “normal”. So Unc, being Unc, says something to her, polite at first and then when she informs Unc that “her rug-rat has autism or ADHD and that’s how he normally acts and that he (Unc) best get over it because she has just as much right to sit there and enjoy the mall as he does”. So Unc get’s a bit twisty, an unusual thing for her. Well, uh, oops, yes you do lady, you certainly have those rights but you don’t have the right to infringe on someone else’s rights because your kid is messed up, hasn’t taken his meds, is an asshole or whatever. In other words, you DO NOT have the right to force me to live in your world.

Bottom line here is “you” shouldn’t have the right to infringe on my rights since my rights should be equal to your rights. I have the right to be free from molestation in a public area. I call it that because that’s what it is, a molestation. Your kid may be autistic by that doesn’t give you nor him the right to allow him to act like an asshole in public, disturbing my peace and quiet, and perhaps even come over and slobber all over my table, try to touch me with his grubby little hands and all of that. Now don’t get me wrong, I used to work in the California State Hospital system and am well aware of the various maladies that exhibit in the human population. In fact, I’m pretty damned sympathetic to retarded (uh, oops, I can’t say that because it ain’t PC anymore, so let’s call them Developmentally Disabled) individuals and the stress and strain that they can put on a family. But come on, give me a break, do you think that screaming banshee of a kid really enjoys being out in public screaming and acting like a jerk. Is he going to appreciate that foray into the “normal” world ten minutes after he gets home? Is he going to be able to sit there and have a lucid conversation with you about all of the wonders he saw on that outing? And even if he can or does, what right do you have in making everyone else suffer with your lot in life? Life ain’t fair, life will never be fair. There will be normal people and their will be abnormal people. No amount of laws or regulations, or interpretations of the Constitution are ever going to fix that. All that will succeed in doing is ordering me to outwardly tolerate behavior that I think is inappropriate and does infringe on my rights.

And then he bashed the poor muslims, but that would be gratuitous, so I left it out…