Since I posted this image are you all dead now? /sarcasm off
Posted on 03/28/2005 12:00:47 PM PST by neverdem
Unless they want to risk violating the school-district's zero-tolerance for weapons policy, Salem-Keizer student marksmen cannot have a pistol embroidered on their letterman jackets. Teen hunters are not allowed to wear silk-screened T-shirt images of themselves standing with rifles and bagged bulls.
And now, a high-school freshman who wants to hang a picture of her brother serving in the military is finding similar prohibitions because the image features a fully automatic rifle and a machine gun.
Last week, Shea Riecke, a freshman at McKay High School, tried to take a snapshot of her brother, Cpl. Bill Riecke, a Marine currently stationed in Twenty-nine Palms, Calif., to her social studies class.
She wanted to display the picture with those of other McKay grads' career choices. Riecke's teacher, Rick Costa, encourages the exhibits.
But Riecke's photo created a little controversy. Actually, it kicked up a sandstorm of grief for the family and school-district officials because of the photo's content. It pictures the Marine hefting a big gun while decked in military desert camies (camouflage). It was taken while he was stationed in Iraq; he will be redeployed there this summer.
The image of Shea's brother does not necessarily convey military service, said Simona Boucek, Salem-Keizer's communications coordinator, and the automatic weapons are the most prominent feature in the photo. The soldiers are pictured casually in a nondescript room.
School officials denied the photo on the grounds the guns in the picture violated district policy. Riecke's mother, Connie Riecke, appealed to district officials including Superintendent Kay Baker. Connie Riecke said she has not heard back from the district but was told that it probably could be displayed if she consented to having the weapons removed, via computer, from the photograph. Riecke said her son insists that it run as it is or not...
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(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Zero tolerance?
I wonder if they let the kiddies listen to Gangsta Rap.
Un-freakin-believable!! Their hate for our soldiers, and this country in general, knows no limits.
Over here....
The stupidity of liberals ceased to astound me long ago.
"It pictures the Marine hefting a big gun..."
LOL that's just priceless...no WONDER they don't want it in class...the pic would surely scare the children!
You have a lot of company, indeed.
:^)
Coming from this part of Oregon, it doesn't surprise me. Its one of the reasons I'm glad I left the Northwest, this would probably not happen in Utah.
Good point. While zero tolerance for a kid bringing a gun to school makes some sense, zero tolerance for positive potrayals of how guns should be used doesn't. And why does the zero tolerance for guns policy cover pictures? Do they not allow history texts because there are pictures of guns in them?
Since I posted this image are you all dead now? /sarcasm off
Can't even imagine living in Liberal Heaven, Michigan is bad enough but at least my area is republican.
Madness . . . utter and complete PC madness . . .
Being put into "a bind" because of a photo. How would/should/could a picture (A FRIGGIN' PICTURE!) of a soldier put anyone in "a bind".
If these people weren't making "the rules", this would be funny.
Let's see if I remember this correctly:
"Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me".I'm pretty sure pictures of soldiers falls into this axiom. Something about "everything I needed to know...".
Simply ridiculous.
A Marine with a big gun? I'm sure that's what they all claim.
Isn't there a little poem about the differnce between a rifle and a gun?
Do those liberal jackasses let their history books contain that photo of the Marines raising the US flag on Mt Suribachi at the battle for Iwo Jima? There are 4 grungy devil dogs all with big guns in that picture.
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