Cross-posted at Immizen.com with links to sources.
It's the news of the day. A viral video that shows a female bus driver being bullied by the students in the bus.
More than $120,000 has been raised online for an upstate New York bus monitor who was taunted and verbally abused by students.
The incident was captured in a 10-minute video posted to YouTube showing 68-year-old Karen Klein trying her best to ignore the stream of profanity, insults and outright threats directed at her.
In some online comments a person writes "This video should follow them everywhere, college application, job applications, etc."
Someone else answers: "I like that idea too. This whole thing sickens me and I can't believe these kids could be so cruel."
Perhaps this is the right time to remind people that we know of someone who was a disgusting bully as a kid but for whom no video of the incident exist? A lengthy Washington Post story described Romney's time as a prep-school prankster and occasional bully of closeted gay students
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenage son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another.
A bullying record in the past should not be taken lightly and should follow people wherever they go, even the candidacy to the presidency.