Bullying...We Have Had Enough In All Forms!!!

 Everywhere we look now a days we find ourselves seeing or experiencing bullying! When is enough going to be enough? Will it always be a part of our societal make up forever or will, we as a society be able to knick this in the butt? These are the questions I am posing to you today.
 According to www.bullying.org bullying is a conscious, willful, deliberate, hostile, and repeated behaviour by one or more people which is intended to harm others. This includes physical violence, attacks, verbal taunts, name calling, put downs, threats, intimidation, extortion, stealing of money, possession, and exclusion from peer groups. They say this assertion through peer groups gives them a sense of entitlement and they have a intolerance towards indifference's.
  If face to face bullying wasn't enough, now we have what we call cyber bullying. "Cyber-bullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as emails, cell phones, personal web sites, defamatory online personal polling websites, to support deliberate, repeated and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others."(-Bill Belsey) Cyber bullying has taken on its own life. Individuals are now using it to send hate list, smut list, and even nude pictures of others they do not like or want to embarrass. We now call this sexting.
  Now a days you can turn on your televisions and everyday there is a new headline on the news about a child, adult, or even ad from some political figure bullying another person. Yes, I even included political figures. Let's face it, bullying does come in many forms. And Political Ads is one of them. Take the Presidential Campaign of 2008. McCain went as far as to compare Obama to Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears. We all know how low these ads can go. We also know and understand that political campaigns are not beneath the bullying concept either before or after the election is over. Take a look at the next three YouTube Videos as examples to my point:


 

 

  In these video's you noticed not only negative ads but the bullying concept. Putting fear into others! Isn't that what bully's do? I say yes! Especially in the second video. How are we to expect our children to act any differently when we can't even get our own leaders to behave better. We must stop the negative behavior from the top down. We must tell our political leaders not only to stop the negative campaign ads but also the backhanded remarks, side-stepping behaviors they throw around daily on our dime. Then we can make a difference in our children's lives. Then we can stop teaching our children how to bully!
  In 2007 it was a parent involving himself in a wrestling match at school. Then it was a group of Florida teens pleading to beating a girl after inviting her to a slumber party. Today we have a boy who is hung by a fence and 7 teens arrested for the assault.Take a look:

  It used to be said that this would lead to suicide. Now that is a reality. All along it was leading to suicides, however it is just becoming more and more noticeable because of the Internet and other technologies. We have to many children dying because not enough schools, parents, or by-standards really give a damn. The worst thing on this earth is to feel alone. To feel like you have no one. Even if you do, not feeling that way can be a very lonely place. It has to stop.
  Yes, even I have been bullied! It wasn't a good feeling. I was scared, lonely and confused. I wanted to die! Luckily I am here to talk about it. Once, I was so bullied in school my mother had to go to school to make sure that the 20 kids waiting for me the day before off the school bus wouldn't be trying that again. I was even more embarrassed. Now that I look back on it, I am so glad I was embarrassed and safe rather than beat up, in the hospital, or worse.
  If you are bullying someone than you must stop and get help. You can have all the excuses in the world you want, but there is a problem and a reason you do what you do, and you need to reach out for help. Maybe you have been bullied to. Maybe you are having problems at home. Maybe you need to feel like you need to fit in. Whatever the reason, you can't continue this type of behavior because we are all watching. We will no longer allow it to happen anymore!
  If you are being bullied than please reach out for help! Reach out till you are heard. You are not alone. You do have people who do care and who want to help. Do Not Give Up! You are a special human being, with wonderful skills to offer this world. Do not let them win.
  If you are enabling this to happen shame on you! If you are a parent, teacher, or school administrator, police officer, judge, or anyone else who has authority and you allow this to happen, act this way yourself therefore contribute to this problem, or say things like "kids will be kids" and turn a blind eye to this epidemic please take a look at the next video and I hope you remember what can happen.