to avoid a beating. i never did but i have seen it happen. now we like to think that as we get older we outgrow other tortures we really just call them by a different name because isn't it tyrannical leader just another version of a bully? they use the same tools to force you into submission. you can't do or say what you want without being afraid of the consequences. if you tell on them, you end up getting a swirly. >> jesse: try to talk and you get silenced. sounds pretty similar to communist china. but the only way to defeat a bully is to stand up to them. not everyone is brave enough though. but the special ones are. like the protester, who refuse to move aside for the tanks in tiananmen square or the patriots at the boston tea party who wouldn't give in to king george's demands. or ralphy from a christmas story who had just about enough of