I didn't know there were Brits in Congress...

The kids I see can't type. Some of them can't use a mouse. Most of them use CAPSLOCK when they mean Shift. ALL of them have cellphones, which they are much more deft at manipulating and are bigger narcissists than the vapid "stars" they idolize.

Why should they be in a programming class when they can't form a complete sentence? I'm serious. It's really, REALLY sad in public education. The bar is far lower than I think most of Slashdot's audience even knows exists outside of the "Third World".

I'm an American, so I can't speak for London. However, I also work in public education. I agree with you.

I can also tell you that it will be a cold day in hell before they offer programming classes over Math/English when *everything* is being cut back consistently and dramatically year to year. There Isn't Enough Money (TM) is the incessant refrain and the answer to *every* Why not? There are various reasons why there isn't enough money. Most of them stem from corruption at every level; Federal on down.

That article is exceptionally well written and insightful.

Exactly the same here at work. They also think I'm here to work on their personal stuff.

There is video of Saddam Hussein doing the same thing with a big shit eating grin smoking a cigar to wild applause by visibly terrified military people sitting in theater seating. The ones he's picking out of the crowd are escorted out of the room and executed. Not sure where I saw it, I think it was History Channel, years ago.

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

  Martin Luther King Jr.

Snowden is a hero. Someone already posted the Whitehouse petition. You should sign it. Try to save a real patriot.

Stop. Really. My sides... Hurt... From laughing....

It's not just their parents. I work in a public education. The entire system is set up to do that. I heard a show on NPR a couple weeks ago (Diane Rehm) about education "reform" and all of the panelists were saying the same thing: Kill Philosophy/History/Art etc and focus entirely on STEM and nothing else.

The suits won a long time ago. College has been reduced to you paying for the training your corporate masters would rather pocket the money for (and in many cases not getting even that). Schools do not teach entrepreneurship or independence. They teach working on the plantation, being a good little serf that offers no objections to anything ever, while being as big an atom of consumption as possible.

Welcome to the corporate states of America; check your soul at the door.

You're correct. It is. The only part that is incorrect is the "new strategy" part; this isn't a new tactic.

Then it would be "us" vs "them". See, most law enforcement thinks they're above the law. Think Judge Dredd.

I was thinking the same thing. America is the modern Rome, for a few more years maybe, and if I had had the mod points they would have been yours.

I was a Boy Scout. I don't remember anything prohibiting civil disobedience.

Martin Luther King Jr. - "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

They are evil fucks. They have always been evils fucks. They will continue to be evil fucks.

Stop voting for them with your wallet, and shrink their evil.

Well, he definitely can't get a fair trial in Boston. Considering I live half the country away, and it was being broadcast all over everywhere I went all week, I doubt he could really get a fair trial anywhere. Who could they find for the jury who honestly hasn't heard anything about this at this point?