22 Children Attacked At School

BY Michelle FlorCruz | December 14 2012 1:35 PM

A number of knife-wielding attacks on children in various schools across China have occurred in recent years, underlining the shortcomings of the nation's mental health care system.

State-run news agency Xinhua has reported that Min Yingjun, 36, was arrested after he went on a stabbing rampage that left children and an elderly woman injured as they were walking to school on Friday morning. A post on Weibo, China's top microblogging site that's similar to Twitter, described the "vicious incident" that unfolded.

"One mental patient charged into a group of students on their way to school, hacked and injured one resident and 22 students," the post read.

The man who initially stabbed the elderly resident before attacking the children was eventually stopped by school guards.

No fatalities resulting the incident have been confirmed, an outcome that cannot be said for previous incidents that occurred in 2010 and 2011.

Last August, a daycare facility employee in Shanghai went on a similar rampage, injuring eight children with a box-cutter. The victims were between the ages of 3 and 4 years old, and they sustained injuries mostly to their necks and heads. Most were immediately rushed to the nearby Fudan University hospital for treatment. The woman accused of the attack was 30 years old and suspected of suffering from mental illness.

In March 2010, a stabbing spree in Fujian province made international headlines after a man brandishing a 10-inch knife attacked students at the entrance of their school, killing eight and critically injuring five.

Full story here.

If you were looking for this - Connecticut School Shooting Suspect Named Adam Lanza - and were under the impression that banning guns would stop attacks on school children, you deserve a refund from whomever taught you that only guns are used in school attacks.

The story above shows what you get from government healthcare and gun bans don't help.

More on the China that the American Left dreams of here.

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New Book Title and Cover

Super Duper Socialism

Super Duper Socialism: You were fed an illusion about the Left and Right - A Narrative History by John Tagliaferro

Until I saw Antony Beevor on Q & A with Brian Lamb (C-SPAN) I never thought that I shared much with true historians as far as my style of conveying history to others.  Professor Beevor notes that there is a German style, also alluded to as a scientific style, which is really just an illusion.  All history is narrative and I approach it the same way that he does, with an open mind.  Of course, I have my own biases going in, but as I find evidence I have no problem changing my mind.

Changing my mind is what happened while researching this book.  As I began I knew that International Socialism and National Socialism were different only in degree, but those were the two major camps of Socialism.  However, I was under the impression that American Socialism was something different, more along the lines of Mussolini's Fascism.  I was very wrong.

When I 'discovered' a 1913 New York Times article about Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party platform, they used the term "Super Socialism" to describe Roosevelt's vision of a non-Marxist socialism.  Over the weeks, that title echoed to the point that it finally dawned on me that this forgotten description was perfect to usher in the American accent on the Yellow/National Socialism that was sweeping western civilization.

Just a couple of decades later, the Super Socialist states of the world were allying with Marxist states and movements to battle National Socialists, not over freedom, but merely over which flavor of Socialism would rule the world.  Nowhere in World War II was anybody fighting for free markets, free speech, freedom of choice, or the freedom of anything beyond the 'freedom' of the state to dictate to the people.

As time progressed after the big showy surrenders of the Axis powers to the Allies, another war began.  Some call it the Cold War, which does have some merit, and some called it World War III, which really has more merit.  Underlying all of that is still the war for freedom, with the True Right libertarians and Conservatives in an ideological and electoral battle against the Socialists of the Left.  "Super Duper Socialism" is the label I use for American and Red Chinese hybrids of Marxist and non-Marxist Socialisms.

About the cover:

The cover has gone through more evolutions than the text.  It began as a collection of Socialists with the ice ask identified as the murder weapon of Trotsky in the middle.  As I was writing, a Florida Democrat Party office displayed an American flag with the field of stars replaced by a bust of Obama.  I found that interesting and created a similar one on my own, with a different version of the book title scrawled across the stripes.

For the current cover, that I am quite satisfied with, I replaced the white stripes with yellow, for Yellow Socialism and kept the red for Red socialism.  After adding the bust of Obama I had a little room at the bottom of the field for leading American Socialists.  I had more, but one can only fit so many before they shrink to the point of invisibility.

Update:  The wife and the cover illustrator for some of my other books thought the first version was too busy, so I simplified it a little.  Wife told me to try Powerpoint for more text effect options.

I did have a thought of giving the flag a golden fringe for the "Ohio is not a State" tax protestors, but the "Cali 05" frame brought a distressed effect that I like better.  The stylized Socialism bumper sticker across the front was a bit of an accident.  I wanted the white parts to be transparent, but my limited knowledge of graphics programs got in the way, so I applied it like a bumper sticker and liked that better than my original idea.

Older versions below.

As of this post, I am only about 1/4 - 1/3 of the way through my writing.  Hoping to finish before the election heats up.
V/r,
JT

Super Duper Socialism: You were sold an illusion about the Left and Right

Super Duper Socialism: You were fed an illusion about the Left and Right