Read something happy after

Last night I started blogging, and it was so terrible I went, I'll do it tomorrow...

It was saying that it's corny for teams to wear uniforms. And evil. Think of the Power Rangers. Think of the Powerpuff Girls. Think of Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles. It's unnatural for a bunch of creatures to look exactly the same. Clone army, anyone?

I even linked a video to youtube in which the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles get brainwashed into working for the Power Rangers, and as I pondered the powers of ninties technology, realized that there have been multiple occasions of brainwashing in history.

I first thought of children who become killing machines in Africa. But as I googled looking for it, I found other things instead. I was planning on linking these examples to Hitler's leadership tactics of forming his army in the Holocaust, but I've been perusing articles, each scarier than the last, for about twenty minutes now, and I want to talk about these instead.


This one is about a terrorist sing along DVD. It is designed to appeal to kids. In the video, a mother suicide bombs herself, and later her daughter wants to "follow in her footsteps."
I couldn't find the actual DVD on youtube, but here it's broken down scene by scene.

Another article deals with children who were kidnapped, trained, drugged... Then they kill people. It seems that since they are so young, their sense of right and wrong is stunted. Some of the kids start out as regular kids and eventually become monsters, trained not to feel. It's horrifying, but very interesting. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/02/12/child.soldiers/index.html

Lastly, brainwashing can take place in the home, too. Some kids (me) were brainwashed to do their homework and eat their veggies... Sadly, this isn't the case in this house. Marcus Wesson brainwashed his family into thinking he was God. They also didn't realize that being sexually abused and beaten was not a normal part of everyday life. And yes, he DOES get caught. It's unfortunate that we can't do much to help the victims. Check it out: http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/marcus-wesson-mass-murder-surviving-family-speaks-abuse/story?id=11089648&page=1