Cyberbullying: The New Issue For U.S. Senators?!

In my email inbox today was this from my Republican Senator Mark Kirk:

Dear Curt,

Did You Know? Almost half of all kids report having been bullied online.

Cyberbullying wasn’t part of my childhood, but it is part of everybody’s now. As a product of the public school system, I know that education holds the key for future generations. Providing every child access to a safe, first-rate public education remains one of my top priorities. Bullying has real and terrible consequences. That's why my Student Leadership Advisory Board partnered with Motorola to develop a mobile app to help prevent cyberbullying.

Today I also launched two public service announcements to raise awareness about this horrific trend. Please help by sharing these videos on social media:

To learn more about my work to combat cyberbullying, please visit my website.

[I removed some hyperlinks from the message…I am not trying to drive traffic to his videos or to Motorola.]

Cyberbullying is bullying. Why do these kids have phones and computers? Parents should take care of it. If their child is being bullied, the parent would move the child off the computer; if their child is a bully, the parent can take other measures, like taking the phone or computer away! Where is parental responsibility? Where are parents who care? (That is the problem!) 

I was so disgusted by the idea that my U.S. Senator is making a federal case out of the issue, I visited his website and wrote him this:

I got your blast email about this topic today, and just had to respond. As a US Senator, cyber bullying is so NOT your job! You are aiming at a minor symptom, Mark, and ignoring the ultimate cause!

Cyber-bullying is just a natural consequence of the selfish, me-first, pleasure-mad, entitlement, instant-gratification, family destroying, dads-are-unnecessary culture that has been created over the last 50 years of socialistic income-redistributing FEDERAL SPENDING (pandering, vote-buying, dependency-creating, politician-job-securing, etc.) and actively reinforced by OTHER social policy choices like abortion on demand, marriage-penalty taxation, porn-protection, marriage re-definition, expulsion of eternal values from schools, and the like.

As a US Senator, I respectfully urge you to get serious!! Get serious about the things that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES TO CAUSE a million problems in our society, of which cyber-bullying is just one.

If my message to my Senator gives you any ideas, act on them!