Cop takes 'midnight photos' of teacher's classroom

Times Argus ^ | David Delcore

[Freedom2specul8]

Hi Annie.. "“Citizens Advocating Responsible Education,” "I love the title of their group.

[anniegetyourgun]

I suspect they are too late. It's no longer about education in government schools....it's about indoctrination.

[grapeape]

Thanks for this one. I got the information that I needed.

[joyce11111]

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[dead]

The cop stepped over the line here. If he wasn't on official business, he has no more of a right to be in that building at 1:30 in the morning than anybody else.

And the teacher's a jerk, and the custodian is a walking cliche.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Get out of California as fast as you can....Oh, wait a minute...uh, never mind....

[IncPen]

ping

[anniegetyourgun]

Yeah, I don't know why he didn't just tell some of the parents about what he'd heard was going on. But I'm guessing that the parents who send their kids to this school don't care anyway.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

How can we get in touch with this group and support them? Anyone have an e-mail address to I can tell the school the world now knows they are haboring Communists. I'd like to rant for a while, if I can figure out who to scream at. This b@st@rd is lucky he's not in my town.

[CedarDave]

Rush talking about this now...

[humblegunner]

Citizens Responsible for Advocating Pacifism is more like it.

[CedarDave]

What state did this take place in?

[mewzilla]

A school is a public building. I don't have a problem with a cop going in to get the pics. My problem is why couldn't he have gone in during the day? Was he barred from doing that? If not, that's whaty he should have done, then the controversy would ahve been soley about the teacher. Or if the cops had been barred, why a public biulding isn't open to the public.

[CSM]

"Anderson said she was concerned that Mott used his uniform to gain access to a locked classroom after hours without supervision."

I would have expected the teacher and school to support this action. Isn't the police state of Cuba one of their dream societies?

[CedarDave]

Never mind -- Vermont is checked on topics.

[r9etb]

The cop stepped over the line here. If he wasn't on official business, he has no more of a right to be in that building at 1:30 in the morning than anybody else.

And the teacher's a jerk, and the custodian is a walking cliche.

You're right on all counts.

If the cop really wanted pictures of this stuff, he could have asked nicely at the front desk, during normal business hours.

As a taxpayer, he has that right.

Of course, it's entirely possible that the school administrators -- who clearly are protecting Treece -- wouldn't have let him in.

Mott may have anticipated such a response, and decided to do something stupid -- which he did.

[MineralMan]

"The photographs were taken at around 1:30 a.m. after Mott, who once worked at Spaulding, persuaded a custodian to unlock the door to the classroom Treece shares with another teacher.

Mott isn’t apologizing for his actions and says he has at least temporarily refused orders from Barre Town Police Chief Michael Stevens and Town Manager Carl Rogers to supply school officials with copies of the photographs. "

While this teacher is a slimeball, the cop actually had no business doing this while on duty. And, since he was on duty, he's gonna be in big trouble for refusing to turn over the photos, IMO.

Seems to me that when cops do stuff that Freepers don't believe they should be doing, we're all over them, but when they do things like this, we're all behind them. There's either a rule of law or there is not. No crime has been committed here, so what's the cop doing there in the first place?

Thought police are wrong, whether they agree with you or not. That's the bottom line here.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Email our beloved Communist School at:

Thomas Treece - ttreeshs@u61.net

Jerry Desmarais, Chair - gdesmshs@helicon.net

Or, do what I do and send an e-mail to the whole freaking school so other teachers and staff are aware of citizen anger:

migilshs@u61.net;magilshs@u61.net;scalcshs@u61.net;ewigrshs@u61.net;mritcshs@u61.net;gdesmshs@helicon.net;mhadlshs@u61.net;jhatcshs@u61.net;jgoddshs@u61.net;mjarvshs@u61.net;mlafrshs@u61.net;jlewishs@u61.net;drapashs@u61.net;csmitshs@u61.net;mstuart42@hotmail.com;ttreeshs@u61.net;kbearshs@u61.net;kbearshs@u61.net;jbiology@aol.com

Here is the little pinko's website as well, http://www.vita-learn.org/shs/depots/history/treece/treece.html

Come on FREEPERS! This one is worth voicing your discourse. Post your letters so we can all enjoy!

[ladtx]

A passionate pacifist my a$$. A guy who has pictures of the violent revolutionaries, Castro and Guevara is NOT a passionate pacifist. Probably the formost description of the guy is that he is a liar.