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Eighth-Grader Who Refused to Remove NRA Shirt Could Face Year in Prison
National Review ^ | June 17, 2013 | Ian Tuttle

Posted on 06/17/2013 6:03:27 PM PDT by grundle

Perhaps a suddenly firearm-friendly President Obama can put in a good word for Jared Marcum. In April, Marcum, an eighth-grader at Logan Middle School in Logan, W. Va., was arrested when he refused to take off his NRA t-shirt. The New York Daily News reports:

The clothing kerfuffle began when Marcum wore a shirt bearing the NRA’s logo and a hunting rifle. As he stood in line in the cafeteria, a teacher ordered him to either change shirts or turn it inside out.

Marcum declined and was sent to the office, where an officer was dispatched after he again refused to comply with the school’s request.

Cops arrested him and charged him with disrupting the educational process and obstructing an officer.

Late last week Marcum “appeared before a judge and was officially charged with obstructing an officer,” reports Fox News. If convicted, he could face up to a $500 fine or a year in prison. He will be back in front of the judge on July 11 if his attorney cannot get the charge dismissed before then.

One can understand this sort of silliness across the border in Maryland (as we have chronicled here and here) — but in West Virginia? This is, after all, the state whose senator’s campaign ad featured him shooting Obama’s cap-and-trade bill. Ah, those were the days.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: guncontrol; gunhysteria; nrashirt; secondamendment; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 06/17/2013 6:03:27 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Marxism on the march in the new USSA.


2 posted on 06/17/2013 6:06:43 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: grundle

Direct the government spy agencies, including the IRS to look under his parents fingernails, bank accounts, school records, medical records and criminal records...

Find something in there and use it to harass, bankrupt, undermine, compromise and intimidate them.

If they trip, make damn sure they fall.


3 posted on 06/17/2013 6:08:42 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: grundle

If the school had a policy of nothing to be written on any t-shirt worn by a student, then the kid was looking for trouble. If this were so, then I’m with the school except for the kind of punishment.


4 posted on 06/17/2013 6:10:14 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: grundle

Police states suck. Now I live in one.


5 posted on 06/17/2013 6:11:38 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (23,116,441 households on Food Stamps! Now that's what I call HISTORICAL!!!)
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To: laweeks

He was not charged with anything related to his shirt or his refusal to either change his shirt or turn it inside out. The young man instead was charged with, of all things, “obstructing an officer”, when he defended his right to wear it in front of the cop or agent of the government who showed up.


6 posted on 06/17/2013 6:15:17 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: grundle

I’m sure the ACLU is hot on this case......


7 posted on 06/17/2013 6:15:53 PM PDT by digger48
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To: grundle

funny. they pushed their homo and liberal crap on t-shirts under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’

i guess they’re more equal then Marcum


8 posted on 06/17/2013 6:18:51 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: laweeks

Logan County Schools’ dress code, which is posted on the school system’s website, prohibits clothing and accessories that display profanity, violence, discriminatory messages or sexually suggestive phrases. Clothing displaying advertisements for any alcohol, tobacco, or drug product also is prohibited.

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/national/jared-marcum-nra-t-shirt-logan-middle-school-student-charged-over-national-rifle-association-shirt


9 posted on 06/17/2013 6:21:29 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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His shirt doesn’t violate the dress code then?


10 posted on 06/17/2013 6:23:24 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Nothing worn by any student should have anything at all written or advertizing on it for any reason. I can’t believe the garbage that kids are wearing nowadays.


11 posted on 06/17/2013 6:26:30 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: laweeks

We need to bring uniforms back and not the pervy Japanese kind


12 posted on 06/17/2013 6:27:22 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: grundle

The kid had better not plead guilty to any crime with a sentence of one year or more. Otherwise, he will lose the right to own any firearms for the rest of his life.


13 posted on 06/17/2013 6:31:20 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: grundle
This ain't nothing.......

In the future...no one will be able to say homosexual's are wrong.

No one will be able to say Islam is wrong.

No one will be able to say Democrats are wrong.

No one will be able to say government is wrong.

No one will be able so say anything.

14 posted on 06/17/2013 6:33:23 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Life is a bitch. If it was easy, we would call it a slut)
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To: laweeks
Thank goodness you are not in charge, of anything!

I can't believe the garbage some adults are spewing on the internet, nowadays.

Especially some on this website.....

15 posted on 06/17/2013 6:35:44 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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To: grundle

My God ,,,, we’re in deep crap already ,,, out of control gov’t. run a muck ,,, but it’s OK to stomp on or burn our flag as free expression . This is not the country today I feel comfortable exposing my flag to . Todays gov’t. does not represent the people who firmly believe in their Constitution and the rights and privileges granted by those rights . The president and his minions are a misguided bunch of power hungry morons IMHO .


16 posted on 06/17/2013 6:37:09 PM PDT by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism & Communism are the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: dragnet2

We’re All Right-Wing Bastards Now
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2580127/posts

see post # 2
“C-15. Extremist Groups”

these people are barking moonbats


17 posted on 06/17/2013 6:37:16 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: GeronL
I think you've been watching too much Anime; while some of the skirts can be a bit short pervy isn't really a proper descriptor.
   

18 posted on 06/17/2013 6:38:02 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: grundle

Sue, sue, sue!


19 posted on 06/17/2013 6:39:44 PM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: dragnet2

The police acted stupidly. /S


20 posted on 06/17/2013 6:40:07 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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