Marys society in 1997.
I'm about to take up where I left of by breaking down the four points in my last post and telling the stories behind those four points. If you need refreshed on what the Truth Chronicles are, read the Introduction, Chronicle 1, Chronicle 2, and the St.
Marys society dossier...
now on to Chronicle 3.
The Holywriter on the Freak/Redneck War of '97
As I said in the Dossier, tension was starting to build between the group of kids who emulated Marilyn Manson's lifestyle (which we will call freaks to make things simple) and the group of kids that followed the ways of the country music lifestyle (which we will call rednecks).
The Freaks saw the Rednecks as backward and stupid, the Rednecks saw the Freaks as fags and Satan-worshipers.
At first, the only barbs exchanged were the verbal type; name-calling. One thing the Rednecks did, which was actually genius, was come to school wearing head-to-toe camouflage. This was done as a protest against the Freaks coming to school dressed in vinyl pants, wild make-up, and Satanic shirts.
A hundred teens dressed in hunting and military camouflage; I was very much impressed.
I wasn't impressed for long, however. After school a couple of Redneck boys beat up a popular member of the Freaks.
With that, gloves came off, tires were slashed, lips were bloodied, and hand weapons were openly carried in school. Homecoming week rolled around and the school administration finally thought the situation warranted their attention. It probably had something to do with organized violence planned for the Homecoming football game and the vandalized parade floats; it's all fun and games until you mess with a St.
Marys parade, then you get the authorities attention.
So a school assembly was called and the principal lined the stage with cross-armed law enforcement officers and laid down, what I called in the school paper, the Marshal Law rules. Students couldn't get together in groups larger than three, no band t-shirts were allowed to be worn, no make up on guys, no camouflage, etc.
There were other rules and they were all intrusive. And to think, this could have all been solved by enforcing the distraction rule: students can't wear anything that distracts from education. The problem was this: school officials were just hoping if they ignored the situation, it would go away.
The administration used this technique several times that year, and every time they did, the situation got worse...
as you will soon see.
There are three more stories to be told, so chill 'til the next episode.
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