By: Virginia C. Armstrong, Ph.D., Nat'l. Court Watch Chairman

It has been one year since the grizzly scenes of the Columbine High School massacre stunned and grieved the nation. Despite all the attention given to the problem of children killing children, the horror has continued. And the question still heard across the nation is, "Why?" It would be well for us, therefore, to ponder again the additional questions we raised in April, 2000:

1. Activist/liberal federal judges have long been fighting to expunge every vestige of God from our nation's classrooms and public life. Why, therefore, shouldn't our children assume that there is ultimately no One to whom they are accountable, freeing them to behave as they choose?

2. Activist/liberal federal judges have long been upholding the exclusive teaching of evolutionism to our children--that all of us are simply higher forms of animals who have evolved from lower forms. Why, therefore, shouldn't our children behave like animals?

3. Activist/liberal federal judges have long been battling to convert abnormal and immoral such as homosexual behavior into conduct that is normal and moral. Why, therefore, shouldn't our children conclude that other abnormal and immoral conduct, such as murder, is now normal and moral?

4. Activist/liberal federal judges have long been elevating to a superior constitutional status the "right" of a woman to kill her unborn, or partially-born, child. Why, therefore, shouldn't our children conclude that they, too, have the right to kill the children around them?