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"Boys, like young horses, need to be broken; unfortunatesly, since the Act of Supremacy 1534, choir boys can no longer be castrated." (BMcC[18-11-46-503])
"In the matter of Dr. Bradford McCormick versus Mr. Mitchell Rentko, on the charge of attempted soul murder, for which the complainant has submitted testimony to the court under oath subject to felony perjury (here), how do you plead?"
"Your honor, we request that the case be summarily thrown out, due to there being no such crime as 'soul murder'. We plead not guilty, by reason of the divine right of kings to rule their subjects as they see fit, which is duly delegated to parents to raise their children as they deem appropriate, and as the parents of the complainant who has indicated to be addressed as Dr. McCormick, lawfully delegated this power to our honorable school to educate and discipline him according to prevailing standards of instruction and discipline in preparatory schools for boys.
Students have no right to question nor, a fortiori, disobey teachers or curriculum. Dr.(sic) McCormick knowingly and wilfully refused to perform his assigned lessons in the stipulated manner, namely, he submitted a written assignment other than handwritten in cursive script (here). Students who fail to do their assignments as instructed without reasons acceptable to the teacher are mercifully and entirely gratuituosly granted one opportunity to correctly resubmit the said assignment. If they do not, social order needs to be preserved for the good of all, by expelling the offender from the school → removing the bad apple before it rots others in the barrel, if you will, Your Honor.
Your honor, we do wish to enter into the record that Mr. Rentko was remiss in his failure to enforce Dr.(sic) McCormick's doing the assignment as specified in the curriculum. Mr. Rentko should have brought the matter to the attention of his Assistant Headmaster to take appropriate disciplinary action, to repeat, up to and including expelling Dr.(sic) McCormick in disgrace from the school, due to incorrigibility. Unfortunately this grievous crime was never reported and so it went unpunished. Mr. Rentko should have received a reprimand and a letter in his personnel file indicating that he had let a student get away with, to use a present metaphor more aptly; "murder": disobeying a teacher. Be that as it may, the criminal here is the complainant, but the statute of limitations on his crime has expired so we are unable to bring him, your honor, let me repeat: bring him to justice."
Let me summarize, Your Honor: There is no case because there was no crime. Souls, being immortal, cannot be murdered; they must be disciplined to build character. The eternal fate of those whildren whch prove incorrigible, such as the complainant here, is in God's hands. My client wsahes his hands of the matter at hand [cf: Matthew 27:24].
Your Honor, we wish to enter into the record as evidence of the complainant's bad character a copy of Dr.(sic) McCormick's class yearbook in which he states that he opposed what he called: 'the cult of school spirit.' He should have been, like Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake. (Albeit since he is a coward he might have been encouraged to racant by being shown the instruments of torture, like Professor Galileo Galilei?) But he got off on a technicality in his Inquisitorial trial. In 1964, unlike 1600, mankind had fallen into secularist degeneracy, like Mr. Rentko let the complainant get away with his crime:
Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, visibilium omnium, et invisibilium. Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum. Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Deum de Deo, Lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero. Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri: per quem omnia facta sunt. Qui propter nos homines, et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine: Et homo factus est. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis: sub Pontio Pilato passus, et sepultus est. Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas. Et ascendit in caelum: sedet ad dexteram Patris. Et iterum venturus est cum gloria, judicare vivos et mortuos: cuius regni non erit finis. Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum, et vivificantem: qui ex Patre Filioque procedit. Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur, et conglorificatur: qui locutus est per Prophetas. Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam. Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum. Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. Et vitam venturi saeculi. And may God grant victory to our varsity lacrosse team in the big game against Gilman School tomorrow, as a memorial to our great coach, Mr. Mitchell Rentko! Amen."
In conclusion, Your Honor, I trusty — er, trust — you will be there cheering on our boys in blue and gold, Sir.
Yes, I (BMcC[18-11-46-503]) "got away with" writing heretically. Would that I had been able to reproduce that feat for the whole of my 6 year sentence, not just my calligraphy sentences. Would thar I would never haave had to do assignments but only self-assigned studies meaningful to myself. But that would have to wait until age 39 years and an endowed chair professor at Teachers College Columbia university, Maxine Greene (here), not a fcaulty composed of hapless men, one of whom, the eleventh grade math teacher, I seem to have heard had been an Electrolux vacuum salesman before becoming one of my teachers, excuse me, I mean, ahd this after 1863 in USA: "masters", at St. Paul's. Their crimes were legion but they defined the "rule governed order", like, in geopolitics, The United States for the whole world, since 1946, the year of my birth.
Assessing blame
Is it reasonable to accuse Mr. Rentko of being a criminal? And Mr. Middleton? And my parents? I think the case of my parents is petty easy: They "came from nothing", in my moher's case honest, industrious blue collar people, in my father's case not even that). The promised land of "The American Dream" was dangled in front of these people whose lives were perhaps little better than workers in 19th century "sataanic mills". I cannot expect them to have been able to "raise" me. They were dupes. They were victims. They get a pass. They were just travellers on that superhighwy to hell which is paved with good intentions
 
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The members of the faculty at St. Paul's Illiberal Day Carcel for pubsecent male virgins except-for-omerta-sanitary-services-for-jocks, wo unlike my humble parents, called themselves "masters", had at least some kind of college degree and some of them masters degrees and even one with some kind of doctoral degree. They were not serfs.But can hey be held resposible for their actions? I cannot decide so I here speculatively will give them too the benefit of the doubt: They too were dupes. The culprit was: The invisible hand of The American Dream and the whole society in which it wa situated.
To maybe they all get off more or less by reason of learned incompetence if not induced insanity. However! No honorifics other than for my parents an "E" for effort, should be accorded to them: lmost without exception they all failed consistently on achievement — just is wass not their fault. There is one word I think does them justice: pathetic.Their lives were wasted and part of the waste was that they wasted mine. Pathetic. If jews in Nazi Germain had to wear yelow stars on their clothes, these people should all have to wear American flags on theirs and it's nothing to be pleased about.
 Unfortunate for themself, the person who lacks one; unfortunate for others, the person that is one. Don't be an a**hole! |
Single occupancy male urinal. Amenity necessary for personal modesty and dignity StP did not provide for us students. What was their objective? |
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