Posted on 11/29/2002 8:57:01 AM PST by DaughterofEve
The Waterford School District should not have suspended the student in August 2001 for contributing to "Satan's Web page," U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan ruled this week.
School officials were concerned by content that included a passage labeled "Satan's mission for you this week." It read: "Stab someone for no reason then set them on fire throw them off of a cliff, watch them suffer and with their last breath, just before everything goes black, spit on their face."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Another reason why 60 years of libealism is to blame for our Nations downhill slide into the abyss.
Lucky for the kid he was talking about murder. If the kid had suggested that homosexuality was a choice, the kid would be serving 5-10 at the local jail.
This is none of the SCHOOL's business. The school should only have ANY juristiction in the school or at school sponsored events, period.
Now if there were threats, maybe it should be a POLICE matter, but not a SCHOOL matter. School administrators have a bad habit of sticking their noses were it don't belong anyway. If it is a threat, then call the cops and let them handle it.
Kudo's to Judge Duggan.
This judgement was a no brainer. Any other ruling would have been unconstitutional.
There was no specific threats made against any particular individuals, it was just abstract comments about "someone."
He could have easily said something like, "Invent a device that will drill down to the core of the earth and generate an explosive chain reaction that will cause the planet to be obliterated." No one would take that seriously; nothing to get worked up about. I'm surprised it all got that far in the first place with the suspensions and trials and all that.
I've heard people say that can happen, but I always wonder if a person who would read something and be "set off" by it isn't already a nut anyway, and if it weren't that website that acted as "the trigger," it'd be something else.
Maybe there's more to it, though, that I'm missing and it is serious. I'd have to look more at the website, context, etc., but I didn't see any mention of a URL to link to. We only get a little snippet from the news article.
I thought it was an overall interesting situation worth an exchange of opinions or commentary here.
Me too, thanks for posting the article.
I don't post articles that often but when I do it's more because I see room for an interesting FR discussion or review, it doesn't make me (or anyone else that posts!) an expert or necessarily a die-hard on the situation. (Although some are, heaven forfend I diss one of the FR geniuses! They're fun to read.)
Thanks for the response!
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