[Jack Black]

Don't blame the police.

Screw that. The police are professionals. If some segment of the community asks them to go round up all the Jews in the city, does that excuse it. HELL NO. They, not their supporters, are supposed to understand the limits of the law. This means both individually, as a sworn officer, and collectively as a force.

In showing such complete lack of common sense and disregard for the highest law of the land they have, rightfully, opened themselves up to ridicule and lawsuit.

Were I the parent of a child treated in this way you can bet I would be suing everyone involved for large amounts of money, as well as working to organize a class action against the school, the police, the principle, the chief of police and the school board. My goal would be to bankrupt all them, which would definately send the message "you can't pull guns on kids at school, handcuff them, and smack them around because you think there are drug dealers at the school" or, perhaps more simply "this is not the USSR".

Now the cops do what they are trained to do and we suddenly have a problem with it.

If cops are being trained to randomly arrest and search individuals suspected of no crime our Republic is gone, we had better train our kids to fight tyranny - because it is here.

[BUCKSBUD]

WELL PUT !!!!!

[Jeff Head]

Been training mine to do that their entire lives.

Either with the spoken word and constitutional activism, with yours truly serving as as good an example as I could make...or, if necessary and God forbid, with their firearms (side arms, shot guns and long rifles), which they are all also trained to use.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

In showing such complete lack of common sense and disregard for the highest law of the land they have, rightfully, opened themselves up to ridicule and lawsuit.

In pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, customs officials who initiated and participated in a bogus customs search could be found personally liable for civil damages. Imagine such a system today?

[ladylib]

On a talk in radio show Saturday night, cops called in and said this was definitely not the way to handle this situation.

These people are going to get sued. The ACLU is working on it now.

[Cap'n Crunch]

Your post is exactly why cops are in the schools, because no one thinks anyone can put a hand on their kid. Now the schools have handed over their responsibility to the police. They won't discipline kids, they expect the police to do it. So when the school says they have a problem with kids in school with guns and drugs, be prepared for the cops to come in and deal with it the way they do.

I'd like to see the cops out of the schools, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Unless of course more people get tired of cops arresting kids in school and start suing. Lawsuits seem to be the only things that bring about change in this country.

[robertpaulsen]

"we had better train our kids to fight tyranny"

Seems to me as though you're teaching your kids how to sue people and organizations into bankruptcy. Not that you'd be doing it for your "fair share" of the tort lottery or anything like that.

It's the principle, dammit!

[Travis McGee]

"or, perhaps more simply "this is not the USSR"."

It's getting closer.