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June 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The verbal abuse was captured in a 10-minute mobile phone video recorded on
Monday by a student of Athena Middle School and later posted to YouTube.
The video shows Mrs Klein trying her best to ignore the stream of profanity,
insults and outright threats.
One student taunted: “You don’t have a family because they all killed
themselves because they don’t want to be near you.”
Klein’s oldest son killed himself ten years ago.
Eventually, she appears to break down in tears.
The swell of support for Klein follows a recent surge in awareness of bullying
that has brought the issue from the classroom to the stage and screen to the
White House. Bullying expert Stephen Birchak, a professor of counseling at
Albany’s College of Saint Rose, said the enormous flow of money for Mrs
Klein is no surprise given the shame we feel as a society over the incident.
The stickier question is: How could the students be so cruel?
Mr Birchak noted that the kids are growing up in a world of harsh political
debates and reality TV shows in which berating people is part of the
entertainment. Meanwhile, taking videos of people in humiliating situations
and sharing the images has become all too normal among many adolescents, “Kids
are growing up saying, ‘OK, this is how you treat your fellow human being
and it’s OK to do those things,'” he said.
Police said Mrs Klein does not want the boys to face criminal charges, partly
because of the storm of criticism leveled at them.
She told NBC’s “Today” show that it took “a lot of willpower”
not to respond to the jeers from the four boys riding the bus operated by
the Greece Central School District. Klein said she was “amazed” at
the support she received.
“I’ve got these nice letters, emails, Facebook messages,” she said. “It’s
like, wow, there’s a whole world out there that I didn’t know. It’s really
awesome.”
The fundraising effort flew past its goal of $5,000, initially designed to
send the grandmother of eight on a “vacation of a lifetime.” Some
20,875 people had donated by early Friday, many in denominations of $20 or
less.
“You want to jump into that bus and you want to grab those kids and say
‘Knock it off!’ And you want to hold her,” said Amy Weber, a
43-year-old independent filmmaker from the Detroit area who pledged $100.
“I think we hear about bullying every day and we become a little
desensitized to it. This puts it in our face” said Weber, who is making
a feature film about a bully.
Slava Rubin, Indiegogo’s chief executive officer and co-founder, called the
outpouring “an incredible campaign”.
“We’re seeing good Samaritans come together to support this brave woman,
and we hope that this campaign contributes positively to the important
national discussion about bullying,” Rubin said in a statement.
The boys had not yet apologized to Klein as of Thursday afternoon, though
police said they regretted their acts. The school district will pursue
disciplinary actions against all four students.
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