Amish: The kindhearted people

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2011/10/are-amish-anarchi...

That's not quite true. He killed 5 and injured another 5. The molesting part is only speculation, though he did bring a tube of lube with him.

> Noting that the village and the school where the killing took place had become a visitors’ attraction, the Amish elders had the building razed to ground overnight

That's also not true. It was demolished 11 days later by diggers.

If the author's goal was to make a parallel between using less technology and being mature and peaceful, I would have to disagree. The Amish are an interesting people, but thinking that their way of living should be the norm is a romantic response to how society uses technology in the wrong ways. I firmly believe that we can only grow by increasing the technology we use across all walks of life (education, resource management, communication, labour, etc.)

There's a pretty sizable number of Amish caught dealing drugs in Lancaster County. Although I think that's either decreased in recent years or it isn't the novelty that it was initially and there's no real media coverage of it anymore.