April is also special because the 20th will mark the seventh anniversary of the Columbine massacre, the event that spawned my activism for victims of teasing and bullying. Unfortunately, I am not a match for the huge anti-bully machine that has taken root in the country as a result of Columbine and the hundreds of millions of grant dollars allocated by the government to combat bullies.

The sad legacy of Columbine is that instead of teaching our children how not to be victims, it has led to the most massive witch hunt in world history: we are going to target and eradicate bullies, with the expectation that this will get rid of all meanness, and make students happy and free to concentrate on their studies. Individual freedoms are being eroded as our country is becoming a growing police state, as will be explained in the following section.

It is not my intention to sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist, because there is no conspiracy. But there is a process going on that, without anyone's awareness, is increasing the government's control of our behavior, and it is happening most intensively in our schools. The seeds for a society in which citizens are trained to police each other and report each other's actions to the authorities is being planted in the most fertile ground - our children - with everyone's blessings, courtesy of the hysteria caused by the Columbine shooting.