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  1. Kids who believe they can read crop circles & kids who sneak out at night to make them. All trying to manage their own pain, their own way.
  2. Plenty of kids on the street. Some of them cute as candy-stripers, some as ugly as truth.
  3. ... and teens are the most likely to be used and abused by the people who “counsel” them after all that.
  4. They’re the most likely to get shot, stabbed, sexually assaulted, beat up, bullied, turned on to chemicals ...
  5. Being a teenager in America is a high-risk occupation.
  6. If society is in the midst of moral & spiritual erosion, a "family" bedrocked on the emotional abuse of its children will not hold the line.
  7. Emotional abuse threatens to become a national illness—the popularity of mean-spirited cruelty passing for entertainment is but one example.
  8. Develop your own standards; decide for yourself what "goodness" really is. Adopting the abuser's calculated labels only continues the cycle.
  9. If you are a victim of emotional abuse, there is no self-help until you learn to *self-reference*.
  10. They never stop to think that while they're flaming each other, somebody else is collecting all their actual addresses ... IPs and all.
  11. Clowns will sign up for some free service that re-sends their e-mails anonymously
  12. Spam-and-scam artists don't even have to spend money on postage or faxes anymore. But they still need a database to work from.
  13. The Internet didn't create kiddie porn, but it sure made selling it easier.
  14. Always amazes me how people think they're being "anonymous" by using a public library or an Internet café to play their games.
  15. The answer to injustice isn't rhetoric, or debate. It always comes down to a fight.
  16. That's what we lived by then. That's what those of us who are still standing live by now.
  17. On a huge slab of concrete at the end of the upper tier, I painted these words: If you can't be counted *on*/ You can't be counted *in*
  18. Instead of "defusing" the anger, we had to refocus it. Together. All of us, together.
  19. ... bars that still vibrated with the molecular memory of all the evil and ugliness committed over generations inside them.
  20. That predatory system had ruled the staff as kids and was now ruling the kids behind bars ...