Posted on 03/13/2012 5:03:05 AM PDT by tobyhill
Zero tolerance is usually zero brains. Your arguments are the same ones that every leftist bureaucrat wants to use to trample the idea of individual accountability and individual privacy in countless ways.
Hey, let’s throw the computer accounts of every kid in the nation wide open to every nosy school administrator with an interest because in a country of about 300 million we have about 30 school homicides per year (usually significantly less). Let’s apply the same standard to traffic safety and go ahead and force you to put a breathalyzer in your car to start it, just in case...
Oh, but the bullying (gasp)!!! Yeah, let’s empower every school busybody to go snooping on your kids home-based computer activities, because no price is too steep to prevent a kid from enduring an instance of ridicule or an insult. Sorry, but the cure is way worse than the disease.
No one is forced to write anything on the internet. True. Neither is anyone forced to write anything in a diary. Let’s go ahead and seize them all, just to make sure the kids aren’t up to anything, particularly the kids that have behavior problems, or maybe are just a little weird.
Oh, but the internet is not a diary, you say, and one has no reason to expect privacy. Actually, in this specific instance, Facebook has a password and safeguards in place to prevent people to whom you haven’t given permission to view your page from doing so. Sounds like a reasonable expectation of privacy to me. THAT’S WHY THEY HAD TO COERCE HER TO GIVE THEM THE PASSWORD.
It’s the same rotten argument every totalitarian uses: “We are entrusted with the public safety and can do anything we want and if you’re not doing anything wrong, you don’t have anything to worry about.”
There’s a difference between privacy and secrecy????!!! What are you even talking about??!!!
Jeesh.
This is why the country is headed toward where it’s headed. Half the “conservatives” don’t even get it...
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