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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Joe Cafasso: bully extraordinaire

Bullying involves the torment of others through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation.

This is a behavior that Joe Cafasso hasn't outgrown. That little sentence defining bullying is from Wikipedia's definition, and if the shoe fits, wear it! Cafasso has said outright to people that he wasn't above 'exortion', so it would seem that our friend Joe Cafasso fits this categorization. This observation was made in this post by The Way I Like It.

"If aggressive behaviour is not challenged in childhood, there is a danger that it may become habitual. Indeed, there is research evidence, to indicate that bullying during childhood puts children at risk of criminal behaviour and domestic violence in adulthood."^[8]

Bullies grow up to commit sexual harrassment in the workplace, to beat their wives, and many times as adults, end up in jail because they haven't learned that this is unacceptable. There is just one solution to this problem, according to victims of this beahvior in school:

What's always worked for me is bullying them back. Bullying doesn't just refer to taking lunch money and beating kids up. It's more like a way in which the idiots demonstrate their "power" over you. I'm a nice guy, but the way I see it is, if someone is going to be a jerk to me, I'm going to be a jerk right back. When I first started getting bullied in elementary, it was over stupid stuff. I got tired of it and eventually I clocked one of the bullies in the face.

A bully who attacks other people in order to demonstrate control over them, generally doesn't feel very good about himself, and he does it to make himself feel better. He's learned early on in his life that pinning someone down, whether in a literal or figurative sense, somehow makes him 'all better'; at least temporarily. Now according to the law, you can't just go up and clock someone in the face, but if it's provoked and you're defending yourself, that's completely another matter. If there's a TRO involved, that kind of retaliation isn't often even questioned by law enforcement. Personally, I'd call it 'divine retribution'.