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classically liberal classically liberal an independent blog looking at things from a classically liberal perspective we are independent of any group or organization and only speak for ourselves and intend to keep it that way saturday april 21 2012 paranoid parents and the fear of walking to school i was reading a cdc report today which while it is a few years old indicates a clear trend in this country the rising paranoid delusions of parents concerning the risks to their children the cdc report was about something that wasn t a controversy when i was young walking to school but that was before parents were spoon fed fear mongering media pieces that emphasized the exceptional while ignoring the ordinary the cdc in 2001 reported that thirty years ago the sight of children walking or biking to school was common in fact nearly 90 of children who lived within a mile of school used active transportion i e walking or bicycling as their primary mode of travel in recent years the rate of active transport has declined dramatically by 2005 the cdc reported today fewer than 15 of children and adolescents use active modes of transportation the cdc tried to look at the excuses given by parents as to why they won t allow them their children to walk the cdc though that a decrease in the number of schools by about 1 000 nationally might explain some of it but the change in school amounted to a decline of just a couple of percentage points and the cdc found that active transport to school has also significantly declined among children who still live than 1 or 2 miles from school even when you compare only those living near the school walking to school steeply dropped parents used weather as an excuse but the cdc looked at weather patterns in four large cities in each of the four main regions of the country and found some slight variations in weather patterns over the past 30 years however there is no distinct pattern to these changes over time therefore it does not seem likely that changes in weather account for the decline in active transport next they looked at crime especially the fear of child abduction they note that rate of youth abduction is low in school areas only 4 of abductions take place near schools of course most child abductions are custody disputes one parent taking the child from the other parent the abduction that everyone fears the so called stranger danger kind amounts to about 100 cases nationally per year in comparison to 204 000 family abductions there is another category which is called nonfamily abduction which is not considered the stereotypical stranger danger situation but the center for missing and exploited children reports that nonfamily abduction victims overall were particularly concentrated among the oldest groups with 59 percent being 15 17 years old they also note that the stranger danger prevention misses the fact that the majority of non family abductions 53 percent are abducted by persons known to the child 38 percent of nonfamily abducted children were abducted by a friend or long term acquaintance 5 percent by a neighbor 6 percent by persons of authority and 4 percent by a caretaker or babysitter while the stereotypical kidnappings are the most dangerous they happen in extremely small numbers cnn reported that the number of stereotypical kidnappings are small and getting smaller however if you want to terrify parents speak in the broadest term possible talk about 800 000 missing children per year that will do it many of those are just kids who stayed at the mall too late a large number are kids that another family took usually in a custody dispute some are children that parents literally threw out of their home conflate all these categories and you scare the bejesus out of someone who wants to do that anyone who has an incentive to over emphasize risks that would included media that want higher viewer ratings or want to sell newspapers it would include child protective agencies that rely on tax funding often fueled by fear it includes child protection charities that know a good scare increases donations or it may be companies that sell parents fingerprinting cell phone tracking devices microchipping etc one final excuse for not allowing the children to walk to school was fear of traffic the cdc found that 50 of children hit by cars near schools are hit by cars driven by parents of students of course this ignores the risk of driving itself yet traffic accidents where a child is a passenger in the vehicle is the number one cause of death for age groups 1 4 5 14 and 15 24 only infants under the age of 1 are more likely to die due to birth conditions sids prematurity etc statistically a child is more at risk for each mile he is driven than he is for each mile he walks labels children crime fear posted by blog owner at 4 21 2012 04 33 00 am diggit reddit del icio us slashdot it thursday april 12 2012 america s worst da stripped of law license we finally have some good news in the past we reported on the vicious antics of andrew thomas the former district attorney of maricopa county az thomas was big allies with america s worst sheriff joe arpaio we have outlined how thomas misused his powers in various article s on this blog after we reported on thomas and his activities we suddenly found that someone was using government computers in maricopa county to monitor our activities what we didn t report was that we later learned that assistants to thomas had traced the ownership of this blog under the pretense that this blogger was potentially violent all we had ever done was criticize him never threaten him as you can easily see by searching the blog yourself it is precisely this sort of unethical use of his office that got thomas into trouble thomas began using his office for political gain in cooperation with arpaio county officials who were critical were arrested by arpaio and thomas would filed charges that they were corrupt he did this to a top county supervisor when a court threw out the judges as baseless thomas and arpaio then worked together to arrest the judge and claim he was corrupt thomas and two assistants were charged with various violations and arpaio is under federal investigation for his misuse of office a three member ethics panel of the arizona state bar said that thomas wrongfully filed charges against political opponents they said they knowing brought false charges against the judge who had ruled against them the panel also said that evidence indicates that arpaio conspired with thomas in bring these false charges but since arpaio is not an attorney they have no authority over him thomas gave a speech before tea party cranks where he compared himself to gandhi and martin luther king jr incredible good riddance to bad rubbish labels andrew thomas joe arpaio maricopa county posted by blog owner at 4 12 2012 05 55 00 am diggit reddit del icio us slashdot it commenting still screwed up our ability to approve comments is still screwed up we shall try to resolve it but the problem got more complicated as the company that we pay for that service is discontinuing to offer it posted by blog owner at 4 12 2012 04 27 00 am diggit reddit del icio us slashdot it apologies ever since google took over blogspot things have been chaotic they try to force everyone into having one account and thus passwords and things get constantly mixed if you sign in for one google service somewhere you are suddenly in that mode permanently and have trouble accessing other accounts we have repeatedly been told our password for this account is invalid we go through recovery processes only to have it send us reset links to a blog that doesn t exist after repeated tries it allows us to reset the password yet again we write down the password and yet the next time we try to enter we are told it is invalid sorry but google really sucks labels apologies google posted by blog owner at 4 12 2012 04 16 00 am diggit reddit del icio us 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