Posted on 11/24/2011 7:12:14 AM PST by SoJoCo
Emma Sullivan’s trip to Topeka with other high school students to learn about government taught her a few unexpected lessons:
• Gov. Sam Brownback’s office monitors social media for postings containing the governor’s name.
• Some folks exhibit little sense of humor or appreciation of free expression.
• And sometimes a few “joking” words can land a student in the principal’s office, drafting a letter of apology.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
You could have told she's a liberal without her admitting it.
1. She proudly claimed to all her friends that she publicly insulted the governor of the state of Kansas.
2. She lied about doing it.
3. She doesn't think she did anything wrong.
A relatively defenseless kid is terrorized by a politician that didn't like what he read ?
Get prepared, folks.
I had this discussion with my daughter last night - I don't think these limp-minded kids even understand what they're in for as their liberal opinions, driven home to them by a militant union of teachers and uncritically embraced, become monolithic.
DO they really want to live in a world with only one acceptable point of view? What kind of society do they think it will be?
So the governors office points out that she didn’t do what she said she did? Oh the humanity...
...one must not make snide comments directed towards our Overlords. They will be forced to punish us serfs.
The Ruling Class will not be mocked.
I could easily imagine this happening in my day, whatever the equivelent of 'tweeting' was back then.
“DO they really want to live in a world with only one acceptable point of view? What kind of society do they think it will be? “
They are mindless little idiots and won’t realize it until they have a different point of view and are trampled into submission for it. Then they will happily drink the kool aid again.
Boy it’s going to be funny when she is looking for a job out of College and her employer does an internet search on her name..... (Anyways she will probably get the worst punishment for a teen girl these days...Take away her cell phone and internet)
Brownback’s office isn’t going to win this one. They should have just laughed it off and let it go. Seems like a political fail to me.
Politicians are easily offended. With their “condition” you could hurt their feelings.
Darlin', you need to grow up, then come back with an opinion.
Oh, advice to the governor.
What an incredibly stupid thing for the governor’s office to do. Luckily, the kid’s an airhead with no principles.
Maybe there was no terror ... maybe the girl is so hardened against ANY authority it makes no difference, maybe she laughs at the Gov., the school and the principal.
She DOES know there are consequences because she will write the apology to keep her transcript clean from advancing in her "education"
You're right ... maybe there was no terror ... perhaps as a psych major she learns how to DO the terrorizin'
she posted a lie..I see nothing wrong with a governor or anyone else setting the record straight..I do object to the whole forcing the kid to write an apology...first of all it wouldn’t be sincere....what I would have done as a school admin...would be to march her right back to the governors office and let her have her peace with the governor...it’s easy to tweet something anonymously..but quite another to speak face to face. Let her show her true colors...if she has legitimate grievances..they can work them out..but my personal opinion is that she is just mimicking the dogma that has been shoved down her throat in public school..she really has no true convictions of her own.
This is an ADULT. If she can’t stand behind her views and take her lumps, she should learn to STFU.
This is not a 1st Amendment issue. I suspect the same would have probably happened if the kids were visiting a cathedral or museum.
I think some want to make a big ado out of nothing here.
“Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot,” Sullivan thumbed from the back of the crowd.
The offending tweet. It amazes me this hasn't been posted yet.
As I've gotten older, I think Freedom of Speech is really rather tricky, and I no longer think I have good answers for all occasions. I will note that Liberals seem to simultaneously support a Powerful Central Government and also to be shocked when the Powerful Central Government opposes those who "say the wrong thing". Oh, the irony.
I agree. She posted a lie.
I wonder how her college application process is going. Her letters of recommendation are going to be interesting.
Maybe she’s not planning on college. Eighteen years old and still in high school? LOL
If this had been a girl who was traveling with a church group or something and done this to a liberal governor in a blue state, she’d be applauded vigorously here. The worst thing you can say, objectively, is that she had the judiciousness that often characterizes being 18.
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