Why not summary executions?
This weirdness has been going on all over the country since about the time of the Columbine school shootings.
Either the news reports are consistantly lacking important other factors or some of the school systems have been taken over by wackos. And wackos in cahoots with wackos in law enforcement circles. The news video linked in the story does mention this isn't the first time the little felons have been in trouble, but that doesn't help a lot: how many other kids have been in trouble from time to time? Do we arrest all the naughty nine year olds and charge & convict them of felonies? Then they could never vote or hold public office, so they would never be an election threat to these loonies. Why not just authorize the principals to put their felonious little heads on pikes in front of the school as warning to the rest of the Crayola Criminals?
As for having "to put ourselves in his mind", that is a sure formula for the end of free speech, and it is a formula being adopted all over the place: witness the state assault on free speech in Britain, requiring the removal of billboard advertisements because Muslims in the neighborhood were offended, prosecuting a preacher for "hate speech" because he said god condemns gays.
We are seeing some significant victories by people claiming they have a legally enforceable right to be unoffended. Berkeley has tried it, University of Wisconsin-Madison tried it (where it was quashed) and it is rising in truly scary form in the EU.
http://www.local6.com/news/4130302/detail.html
OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures...Ocala police spokesman Russ Kearn said. "However, we have to put ourselves in his mind(the mind of the "victim" depicted.TTB) and that's the bottom line here. It is his well-being and the way he perceived that picture to be. It actually put him in extreme fear and he was in fear for his life."Girls expelled for having a gun charm on a charm bracelet, kids expelled for drawings like the one here. Expulsions for aspirin and Tylenol. Expulsions for pointing a finger and saying "Bang!"
Either the news reports are consistantly lacking important other factors or some of the school systems have been taken over by wackos. And wackos in cahoots with wackos in law enforcement circles. The news video linked in the story does mention this isn't the first time the little felons have been in trouble, but that doesn't help a lot: how many other kids have been in trouble from time to time? Do we arrest all the naughty nine year olds and charge & convict them of felonies? Then they could never vote or hold public office, so they would never be an election threat to these loonies. Why not just authorize the principals to put their felonious little heads on pikes in front of the school as warning to the rest of the Crayola Criminals?
As for having "to put ourselves in his mind", that is a sure formula for the end of free speech, and it is a formula being adopted all over the place: witness the state assault on free speech in Britain, requiring the removal of billboard advertisements because Muslims in the neighborhood were offended, prosecuting a preacher for "hate speech" because he said god condemns gays.
We are seeing some significant victories by people claiming they have a legally enforceable right to be unoffended. Berkeley has tried it, University of Wisconsin-Madison tried it (where it was quashed) and it is rising in truly scary form in the EU.
http://www.local6.com/news/4130302/detail.html
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