{"id":4821,"date":"2004-05-09T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/05\/09\/american-values-unleashed\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:48","slug":"american-values-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/09\/american-values-unleashed\/","title":{"rendered":"American Values Unleashed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"dog  I can’t get out of my mind a story in the news a decade ago, here in Schenectady:  A 14-year-old boy forced a naked schoolmate to crawl on his hands and knees around the neighborhood of their public school, on a leash.  At the time, I was horrified, and thought “Where could he have learned something so degrading?  And, how could someone so young be so cruel?”  A very kindly older lawyer, who served as the boy’s law guardian in Family Court, later told me what a nice teen he appeared to be.<\/FONT><\/P>
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I’m tempted to say the young man might have a good future in army intelligence.  However, he’s currently serving time for a murder he committed a few years ago, after his release from a junvenile detention facility.  When he was arrested for the murder, his outraged mother was interviewed on television.  She looked the camera in the eye and righteously claimed, “He’s a good boy.  He’s never been in trouble with the law before.”<\/FONT><\/P>
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