Posted on 02/04/2011 12:21:44 PM PST by grundle
It would be GREAT if Christie pardoned this kid. It would show just how EVIL these people (i.e., ‘educators’) have become.
What happened to the good ole’ made sense days when the teacher would take the toy and give it back to the kid at the end of the week or the end of the year? I remember my teachers having desk drawers filled to the brim with stuff. Just a thought.
>a law has been broken,
Too many damn laws. Too many lawmakers with nuttin’ to do except make laws.
Why don’t you cops start a sanity movement.
Everyone will listen to you.
Cops Against Nannyism - CAN. or LEON.
That’s the whole point of “Zero Tolerance”.
Teachers and administrators no longer have to use judgment or make decisions.
I’ll be d****d if I would arrest/charge some kid when no CRIME was committed other than some stupid, inane “policy” or whatever they want to call it by.
Show me the statute Mr. School Administrator. A TOY gun is a TOY, not a FIREarm, nor a DANGEROUS weapon. Insane.
No way would I for the rest of my life be “The Cop that arrested/charged the kid with the Nerf-gun” because some dip “ordered” me to do so.
When you become or are assigned as a school cop you don’t check your brain at the door and become a tool for deranged admin personnel.
Thank god when I went to school in NJ, the teachers and police weren’t this moronic, and I brought an actual BB gun to school in the 5th grade, not knowing it was not a toy gun.
This bring zero tolerance to a new level of stupid.
Go to school, become a criminal. It would make a nice T-shirt.
We have police ( supported by district attorneys) who will **arrest** and charge children for soft foam spitballs, Nerf ball toys, and using a finger for a pretend gun.
Our upper military turned their heads and let LTC Lakin and Major Cook twist slowly in the wind. They might be more than willing to fall on a grenade for their men in a battle on foreign soil but personally I am convinced they would follow the orders of a domestic tyrant to haul their fellow citizens off to re-education camps.
So?...If these police ( supported by their district attorneys) would subject ** children** ( merely 7 years old) to the very emotionally abusive and terrifying experience of arrest, these are the very people who would be more than willing to fill up the cattle cars if ordered to do so.
I have mulled over what you said for several years. I remember before retiring speaking with young officers who had no qualms about disarming the general public for “safety” reasons (confiscating all personal firearms).
There is NO doubt in my mind that many would follow such orders without question. Many do not know what the Constitution is all about, nor could they care less. We are seeing a growing aggressiveness in LE, they’ve become in many respects, loose cannons on deck, not bothering to develop good probable cause and in some cases, twisting laws to fit their personal vendettas.
The vast majority that I know believe that they and they ALONE are the only ones qualified to carry a sidearm (well, they concede to their MP “brothers” the same authority of course). This is of grave concern to me, I’ve seen it first hand, I continue to see it when I bailiff for county court cases on an as needed basis.
Case in point: Texas for 100 years had an unenforceable “vehicle carry” law (carrying handgun in personal vehicle while traveling). The higher courts would never nail down “traveling” so individual officers enforced it however they wished, nailing good citizens with a “prohibited weapons” charge. Finally, the legislature repealed the old law and redefined traveling to a much better and workable law. Not perfect but much better.
Well, several DAs and CAs across the state openly said they would continue enforcing the “old law” and ignore the new one. In other words, they are a “law unto themselves”. What a bunch of renegades and to date, nothing has been done about the travesty, meanwhile, we’re still at the mercy of the LEOs of those particular entities, subject to be arrested for carrying a “prohibited weapon” while being perfectly legal under the law. Yeah, justice, how well I know...
Nothing like ruining a child’s (A CHILD’S!!) life over nothing.
The pathetic reasons our children are screwed over never ceases to amaze me.
There are other circumstances in my case. The principal of my son’s school is trying to get the superintendent’s job in my district. When I showed up at a school committee meeting w/ my husband last Thursday where she was giving a presentation - it was amazing how in the following days she was so willing to put all this behind us....I agree with post #78 - this is a form of emotional abuse, but it’s largely because those who go into this field are incompetent. The principal in fact stated to my husband that she has never been questioned on her decisions. That is it’s own problem. I think withdrawing from the system is not the ultimate answer. My son is 17 and 1/2 - he’s strong and knows we back him; there’s not too much they can do to him at this point and in fact we may make things better for the next parent.
>>would be **terrifying** to a child.
But that of course is the point, isn’t it.
Deterrence by subjecting the child to the process and
humiliating the parents.
I would hope the cops took the kid away, horsed around with him at the station, fed him and then took him home later.
But that may be my wishful thinking going again.
When Nancy Reagan put forth the concept into the public eye, I doubt she envisioned it as a rationale for arresting kids with a nerf gun.
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