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Jury: Student Can Form Anarchy Club
Las Vegas Sun ^ | July 12 | AP

Posted on 07/15/2002 7:48:39 PM PDT by Conservative Chicagoan

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Las Vegas SUN

July 12, 2002

Jury: Student Can Form Anarchy Club

CHARLESTON, W.Va.- Sissonville High School was wrong to ban an anarchy club but was right to suspend the student who proposed it in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, a jury decided Friday.

The jury awarded student Katie Sierra $1 in damages. She was suspended for three days in October because she had fliers at her desk promoting her proposed club after administrators rejected it.

Principal Forrest Mann also ordered Sierra not to wear T-shirts with handwritten messages that included, "When I saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered sense of national security. God Bless America."

The jury agreed with the school board's argument that such messages disrupted other students' education.

Kanawha County school board lawyer Gary Pullin said the school became more polarized after the attacks and Sierra was a target of anger because of the club.

Sierra, 15, said she was happy with the verdict. "I'm going back to Sissonville High School in the fall and start my club," she said.

School superintendent Ron Duerring said there were no winners or losers in the case.

"We have a responsibility to maintain safe schools, and we see this ruling as another step in the process, clarifying our decision," he said.

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So she is allowed to do this while decent students are denied the right to acknowledge God. The communist courts have gone too far!!!
1 posted on 07/15/2002 7:48:39 PM PDT by Conservative Chicagoan
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
Just how organised IS the Anarchy Club, anyway...????
2 posted on 07/15/2002 7:49:59 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
I guess that next they will elect officers and demand representation in student government.
3 posted on 07/15/2002 7:50:32 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
Vote school choice.
4 posted on 07/15/2002 7:53:29 PM PDT by concerned about politics
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Probably organize enought to commit terrorism!
5 posted on 07/15/2002 7:55:00 PM PDT by Conservative Chicagoan
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To: Paleo Conservative; All
"Someone has got to be Head Anarchist here. Otherwise, Sissonville HS will descend into anarchy."
6 posted on 07/15/2002 7:55:29 PM PDT by dighton
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Just how organised IS the Anarchy Club, anyway...????

OK, who's going to take the minutes? Who's going to be the treasurer? Who's going to write the articles of incorporation? Collect the dues?

Oxymoron?

This would be funny if it wasn't a court decision.

5.56mm

7 posted on 07/15/2002 7:55:30 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
Most likely, yes...
8 posted on 07/15/2002 8:02:17 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
Isn't 'anarchy club' an oxymoron? What will they do? Agree they should each do whatever they want?
9 posted on 07/15/2002 8:02:26 PM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
An anarchy club???? We already have the Democratic Party.
10 posted on 07/15/2002 8:03:04 PM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
No they are the communist club. Keep the leftist scum straight:-)
11 posted on 07/15/2002 8:05:07 PM PDT by Conservative Chicagoan
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To: M Kehoe
I'm sure they will find a way to commit terrorism against decent people!
12 posted on 07/15/2002 8:05:56 PM PDT by Conservative Chicagoan
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To: yendu bwam
Every anarchist I know is a closet revanchist.
13 posted on 07/15/2002 8:05:57 PM PDT by Old Professer
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To: Old Professer
Every anarchist I know is a closet revanchist.

Breaking room 12 away from the east wing of the highschool?

14 posted on 07/15/2002 8:12:55 PM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
I would be willing to be a huge chunk of money that this twit cannot say anything without "you know" and "like" being every other word.
15 posted on 07/15/2002 8:29:26 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides
Who would possibly bet against you? I bet she also has listened to a lot of rap and incestantly talks about "the bomb" and "keeping it real".
16 posted on 07/15/2002 8:33:14 PM PDT by Conservative Chicagoan
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
And makes Alannis Morissette look like a Baywatch bimbo.
17 posted on 07/15/2002 9:16:08 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Conservative Chicagoan
Join the Anarchy Club! You have nothing to lose but your ideology....
18 posted on 07/15/2002 9:55:30 PM PDT by LibertyGirl77
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