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Posted on 11/23/2007 3:43:25 AM PST by backhoe
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by Baron Bodissey
by Baron Bodissey
9-year old suspended for hate crime
A Glendale elementary school principal has admitted to telling a 9-year old boy that it is OK to have racist feelings as long as you keep them to yourself.
As we said to (the boy) when he was in here, in your heart you may have that feeling, and that is OK if that is your personal belief, Abraham Lincoln Traditional School Principal Virginia Voinovich said in a tape-recorded parent-teacher conference.
The boy was suspended for three days this month for allegedly committing a hate crime by using the expression brown people.
In an interview Monday, Voinovich would not address her comments, first saying she didnt remember the incident, then demanding a copy of the recording and finally insisting that she could not talk about a students discipline.
The circumstances of the boys suspension itself raise troubling questions about student discipline, interrogation and oversight at Abraham Lincoln.
According to school officials, the boy made a statement about brown people to another elementary student with whom he was having a conflict. They maintain it was his second offense using the phrase.
But the tape recording indicates this only came out after another parent was allowed to question the boy and elicited from him the statement that he doesnt cooperate with brown people.
After that was reported to the boys teacher, he was made to stand in front of his class and publicly confess what hed said.
The boy maintains that he never said it; that the words were put in his mouth by the parent who questioned him. That parent happens to be the mother of the student with whom he is having a conflictand she happens to work for Abraham Lincoln as a detention-room officer.
The tape indicates that rather than just spouting off with racial invective, the boy was asked first why he didnt want to cooperate with brown people by the parent/school official.
In court, this might be called entrapment. Not to mention a conflict of interest.
Officials at the Washington Elementary School District, who are supposed to oversee Voinovich, wouldnt comment about the boys suspension. They said only the principal is qualified to talk about it.
Well, the boys mother is talking, and she is angry. She has also removed her son from the school.
I want parents to know that principals can abuse their powers, Sherry Neve, 35, said. Principals need to have pro-active supervisors. I want the parents to know that the principal was influencing my son in a way I wouldnt want him to be raised.
Neve said school officials didnt advise her of the incident until several days after they questioned her son. When Neve objected to the suspension during the conference, Voinovich told her that she didnt have any rights; that parents give up their rights to discipline when they send a child to school, the tape shows.
If you dont want that, you can take him out of here, Voinovich said tersely.
Neve insists that her son is not a racist and that he never differentiated a persons color until the school made it in an issue.
We were raised to be color blind, she said. My children were raised the same way.
But lets assume for a minute that the boy actually made the comment. Does this make him a racist and guilty of a hate crime? Or does it make him a confused 9-year-old in need of counseling?
Instead of taking an opportunity to educate the boy and get to the root of the problem, the principal taught him another lesson altogether: Its OK to feel like a racist as long as you keep your feelings to yourself.
Kids often say the darndest things. Apparently, so do principals.
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I had that sinking feeling that it would be expensive and that's partly why people usually settle out of court. Of course that was then and this is now. In order to carry this through then you must have the backing you need to fight back and that's when other blogs and forums should step up to the plate. There for the grace of God go I......think about that. Well if I (Connie and Mark) don't fight it then it could very well be you next time. |
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Just another proud part of the New Trudeaupia;
While everyone is busy humming Lets Not Be Beastly to the Muslims, it is worth noting the word Islamophobia is a misnomer. A phobia describes an irrational fear, and it is axiomatic that fearing the effects of radical Islam is not irrational, but on the contrary very well-founded indeed, so that if you want to speak of a legitimate phobia-its a phobia I experience frequently-we should speak instead of Islamophobia-phobia, the fear of and revulsion towards Islamophobia.
More reaction here;
Consider the implications: By the logic of the CIC's attack on Maclean's magazine, the owners and operators of Canadian libraries and bookstores could also be charged with violating the human rights of Muslims by making not just Steyn's article but also his entire book widely available to Canadians throughout the country.In attacking Maclean's magazine, the CIC is not acting alone. It has the support of the Ontario Federation of Labour. In a statement backing the CIC, OFL executive vice-president Terry Downey said: "We want to make sure there's dignity and respect for all individuals in the province."
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the restrictions on speech in the codes were intended to apply only to communications that fostered discrimination on such bases as employment or housing. Instead, human rights tribunals have adopted such expansive interpretations of these speech restrictions that a newspaper or magazine could get into trouble for publishing even a truthful article about conflict in the Middle East, Bosnia, Rwanda or elsewhere that is likely to expose at least one of the parties to contempt.
Canada's power-grabbing human rights commissioners evidently have scant regard for the freedoms they suppress or for the original understanding of the codes they are supposed to uphold. Otherwise, the British Columbia tribunal and the Canadian and Ontario human rights commissions would have promptly dismissed the CIC's complaints against Maclean's as entirely without merit.
That's from the London Free Press. Now that Macleans has been targeted, they get interested. Better late than never, I suppose. But here's the better CHRC story, if only one of those big budget investigative journalists could be bothered;
To date, Richard Warman has filed 26 complaints against named respondents with his former employer - the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Related - a "racist douchebag" imam gets mistaken for Mark Steyn.
http://andrewcoyne.com/columns/2007/12/right-to-censor-others.php
Calling a censor a censor censored!
Freedom of the press attacked --So, I take it Flanagan will be standing four square behind FD in our fight against Warman.
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If any of our skillful wordsmiths could concoct a short, brief, concise 250 word blurb on the Warman vs. FD situation, I'm sure I can get into the hands of some of CPC mucketymucks. I have an extensive conservative email list, with many big-time CPC players on it. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Hello? |
Click to download the complaint(pdf) against Macleans. I haven't had time to read it, but the juicy part is said to be contained in the first 15 pages. Want to make your voice heard? Here's the best idea I've seen to date;
"Regarding ways that we can all support Mark Steyn, isn't the most obvious one buying his book (again)?"
Kathryn, better still. Order it online and deliver it to:Canadian Human Rights Commission
344 Slater Street, 8th Floor, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1E1, Canada
Telephone: (613) 995-1151
Toll Free: 1-888-214-1090
TTY: 1-888-643-3304
Fax: (613) 996-9661
Well the Americans are noticing. So where are our Canadian media?
(Update: Welcome Warren Kinsella readers! (All 12 of you.) While you're here, have a look around. I recommend this post, in which an individual using an assumed identity posts from a server registered to the Pollara polling company. )
Also, note that Andrew Coyne, who is now editor of Macleans, has an excellent column on the role of the HRC, ie, The State, in censorship.
http://andrewcoyne.com/columns/2007/12/right-to-censor-others.php
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