In July you may remember a story involving letters sent to newspapers throughout the country containing a threatening message to Goldman Sachs. Today another letter claiming that the threat was a hoax perpetrated by teenagers surfaced at Newsday and the Daily News.In the letter it is described how the original letters were directed at Goldman Sachs because the parents of the teenager were having trouble with the company. The handwritten letter is signed: "three frightened kids and six frightened parents." And it is well that they should. However, I have a few questions.
First, why is that I smell a liberal? Could it be that only a liberal would be foolish and cowardly enough to think that writing a letter to FBI and sending it to a newspaper is how you handle the fact that your teenager just broke three or four federal laws masquerading as Al-Qaeda?
Secondly, what would compel a group of parents to seek cover from the media, rather than an attorney unless they were a naive bunch of progressives? I really don't think that confessing to a crime in the national news is going to do much more than ensure yourself a speedy trial when the FBI catches you. An event which I am certain will come to pass.
Lastly, what ever happened to discipline? Something tells me that had these misguided parents spent as much time teaching their children morals, as they did than partaking in business with one the world's largest investment firms, this mistake may not have happened.
Of course I am just a heartless conservative, I say Buffy and Becky need to feel the swift kick of reality right in their pampered little bottoms. The last time I checked a hoax terrorist threat is still against the law. And mistake or not accountability is the paramount lesson here.
I have to chuckle. If I had perpetrated something like this when I was a teenager, my Daddy would have put me in a headlock dragged me to the jail himself. The only thing that may have been printed in any newspaper would have been my obituary.
