Suffer the Children, by Robert Earle
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Another school shooting just up the road! How can we stop these tragedies?Retired General Budge Kleeforth’s unorthodox solution throws his hometown of Glenwood Park into turmoil. But the skeptics are outnumbered by parents willing to try anything to keep their kids safe, so Budge receives the go-ahead for an elementary school pilot program.Immediately he meets opposition from cynical politicians, gun manufacturers and arms industry lobbyists. They calculate that if they can co-opt both Budge’s lover and his financial backer, he will abandon his high-tech efforts to neutralize firearms in the hands of demented assailants.Meanwhile Glenwood Park’s anxious teenagers think they—not school officials, police or retired generals— are best equipped to anticipate future assailants with their knowledge of community secrets The problem is that they don’t realize the potent effect their agitated discussions are having on someone in their midst.In the end, too much money, firepower, and passion are concentrated in one place.Suffer the Children’s hurtling story lines all collide with astonishing force.
Suffer the Children, by Robert Earle- Amazon Sales Rank: #2008086 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-11
- Released on: 2015-03-11
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Social Conscience and Connecticut Elementary School Massacre 2012 By Scarlett Jensen Earle studied English literature and is an accomplished author of 6 novels and many other publications on smaller scale. His first novel appeared in 2004 after his 20 plus years' career as diplomat in the U S Government. In 2003 he pursued in service peace initiatives in Iraq which laid the foundation for his formation of peace initiatives and philosophy of social and moral decadence.Evil visited Connecticut on 15 December 2012, when a gunman opened fire in a elementary school, killing 26 persons of whom 20 children between 5 and 10 years old. Three weapons were found on the scene. The gunman was suffering of deteriorating mental health and also caused his self - inflicted death.The result: The outcry for tighter gun laws, legislation reform and a social movement for gun - control. The ultimate would be to make handguns illegal. The focus had also to shift to the mental health background of license holders.Earle used the theme of children suffering the repercussions of militant, political ideology and senseless tragic actions of mentally disturbed and socially vulnerable people, endangering the safety of the innocent.The drive to implement a policy of military drill of children in schools and the inspiration of civil, constructive education of the young to work as a unit against the terrorizing use of assault weapons, lies at the core of the protagonist's endeavours. He is a General named Budge who excelled in the military. After his retirement he initiated his anti-gun movement proposing the "Defender" to be used in schools. He feels his future career is busted and needs collaboration from many structures: political, educational, capitalists and the police. In his personal life he experiences blankness and he feels the people cracking around him while he feels flawed.The author shaped his characters to represent the working of the politics of arms and the economics of the arms business. Will the project succeed? If you are a lover of the US military mindset, reconciliation and want to focus on social development, read the novel. It is as real as fiction can get.We are shown the pitfalls of humanity in its struggle to survive, chaos and the wrath of Nothingness. The " Defender" is nothing in the hands of those who are not schooled in intelligence and security. Chaos and violence in a defenceless environment breeds fear. What are we to do when we fear? There is such a lot of social mistrust, weaknesses, jealousy, temptation and illusion of omnipotence.The "Defender" is governed by the user's state and shaped to grip. It does not kill, yet definitive while projectiles silently disintegrate into nothing. Bewildering the assailant. Is this kind of safety not an illusion? Technology is not the universal answer. Find out.Scarlett Jensen14 April 2015
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. `That's the beauty of fiction: you can do with it what you want.' By Grady Harp Virginia author Robert Earle began his dream of being an author in this teens, pursued creative writing at both Princeton and Johns Hopkins, paused for a career in the Foreign Service serving in Latin America, Europe, and the Near East, and has resumed his primary ambition in writing such successful novels as THE WAY HOME, NIGHTS IN THE PINK MOTEL, THE MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN as well as a array of short stories published in Mississippi Review, Larcom Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, The MacGuffin, Iron Horse Literary Review, Hurricane Review, Black and White, Nassau Lit, Pangolin Papers, REAL, Blue Moon, Potomac Review, Iconoclast, Tryst, Prick of the Spindle, 34th Parallel, Quarterly West, Main Street Rag, among others. As he states, `My inspiration is sometimes observation and sometimes pure imagination. I am attracted to complex characters who are struggling to understand what is happening in their lives.'In a casual conversation we slip into the plot of SUFFER THE CHILDREN as though we are uninvited guests listening to a tale that will be made clear - a very seductive manner of writing opening pages: `No one had mentioned the slaughter in his meetings. They were discussing new weapons systems meshing with operational concepts attributed to him, the ingenious general. (A Daedalus, Pru had written of him, provoking Katie to mock bitterly that he was more Icarus.) But when he left the last meeting, the secretarial bullpen was full of computer screens inset with the news. Twenty children dead in their classrooms . . . some teachers . . . the assailant, identity unknown, motive unknown . . . anguished parents arriving . . . ashen-faced police and EMT crews . . . cut-aways to hospitals, emergency facilities . . . the former congressman from the district, Rich Dunn, calling for calm, pledging justice.' That is the quality of revelation Robert brings to his tale and that is what makes it all the more tense.Robert supplies the synopsis: `After an elementary school massacre, Pru Malveaux reignites her affair with disgraced General Budge Kleeforth by urging him to develop a way to keep kids safe in the classroom. Kleeforth takes his ideas to his Connecticut hometown, Glenwood Park. The anxious community approves a pilot test--training children to maneuver into safety while teachers employ the prototype of a sophisticated, nonlethal device called the Defender that the arms industry fears may undermine its markets. Local teenagers regard the adults as clueless. They think they know the community's misfits well enough to identify any sociopath dwelling in their midst. But they miss the possibility that the next shooter might be their de facto leader, Mike Houghton, the police chief's grandson. To kill Kleeforth's project, influential gun interests undermine his relationship with Pru and buy control of the Defender, which they will jettison. The ensuing crisis raises the troubling question: If America can protect the welfare of its weapons, why can't it protect the welfare of its children, too?'Combining the skills of a craft well learned with the experiences of working in the Foreign Service (read political atmosphere both positive and negative) Robert Earle has not only written a story very worth reading, but he also addresses (? inadvertently, perhaps) of the seemingly increasing incidence of school and classroom crimes that occur all too often and plead for some enlightenment on gun control. Again, he serves his country while he entertains his readers. Fear is a powerful tool and Robert uses it extraordinarily well. Grady Harp, March 15
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This is the World We Live In... By Marta Cheng What happens when a gunman opens fire in an elementary school in Connecticut, killing six adults and 20 children? What happens in the immediate aftermath of such a tragedy when governmental bureaucracy butts heads with inflated egos and pure, unmitigated fear? Suffer the Children, that’s what. Sadly, the concept of a gunman opening fire on a school full of defenseless victims has become all too commonplace since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. It is almost as though we’ve resigned ourselves to the fact that this is the world we now live in; this is the world we must keep our children alive in. So what do we do? Do we retrofit our schools into prisons, monitoring the comings and goings of the students, the teachers and all visitors? Or do we take a united stand and stop allowing our children to fall victims of this kind of violence? In Suffer the Children, its protagonist, General Budge Kleeforth offers a solution – educate and train staff and students and equip the teachers with the Defender. The Defender doesn’t kill – only debilitates, maims and disarms an assailant. However, unprecedented choices create no end of controversy, as the author so aptly shows us. What’s the right choice? Ultimately, it’s up to the reader to decide.
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