Posted on 06/28/2013 1:30:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
CHARLESTON, W.Va. A criminal charge has been dismissed against a West Virginia middle school student who refused a teacher's order to remove a National Rifle Association T-shirt he wore to school.
Logan County Circuit Judge Eric O'Briant signed an order dismissing an obstruction charge Thursday against 14-year-old Jared Marcum stemming from an April 18 incident at Logan Middle School.
Marcum was charged after a police officer told him to stop talking, but the studen
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Will that school allow students to wear shirts showing the American flag?
Where do I get one of those shirts?
works for me!
Since when is it a crime to talk, doesn’t matter what the said, he could have called the officer a pig, or anything else, it is not a crime.
Not say the kid should not be severely reprimanded by his parents, if he used such language, but arrested and charged no way.
Many police and government school officials are more interested in power and their own egos than the welfare of children.
They are perfectly willing to send a child to prison for any slight or public embarrassment.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2008/09/attorney-to-plead-gorillas-cas.html/
Unfortunately, it wasn't a 'person' that railroaded him, but rather a school district, the police/Sheriff and county attorney. That's a tough fight, and thankfully a judge put a stop to it.
Federal criminal proceedings are being considered against the school administrators and their accomplices.
18 United States Code §ection 241
Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
He had to sweat charges for exercising his First Amendment rights. The fact that the charges were dismissed isn’t even the point. They’ll drop the charges, after all the hassles and attorney’s fees have been endured. So people won’t wear NRA tee-shirts anymore.
Who pays the family’s lawyer fees?
I guess some people know to stop when only one fist is stuck in the Tar Baby.
Far better than the people responsible for the charge disappearing.
Sued for what? Having a stupid dress code? Can I sue my place of work for not letting me wear my “No Fat Chicks” t-shirt?
Listen, it was a stupid decision, but it was the school’s decision to make. Their house, their rules. Don’t like it? Join the school board and change it, or home school.
Everybody wants to be a special snowflake now and think they are exceptions to the rules. This would be a good lesson for the kid: sometimes life isn’t fair.
Get the Smith & Wesson cap. I get a lot of crazy reactions but most of it was cool, even in a blue city like mine.
Finally, some sense. The only way to stop these little dictator schools from calling the cops on their students for imaginary guns is to make it extremely expensive for them. Set an example for the rest of them to follow. This crap has got to stop.
Agreed. That's what I would've done for my daughter when she was that age 20+ years ago. Unfortunately, in TODAY'S hotbed of liberalism that is the school system, your dad would have marched in to the Principal and been perp walked out in 'cuffs. Sad, but true. When the cops start TASING five year old kids for being unruly in the principal's office, all bets are off. That TASING story, btw, is old news too.
Good points.
I don’t think the world is going to make it too much longer. We’re in a crazy twilight zone/nightmare.
Make sure you put NRA T-shirts on your kid's back to school list. You can irritate libs and perhaps fund his college education with the lawsuits.
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