Posted on 04/02/2008 3:39:20 PM PDT by neverdem
Some balancing is required between the nature of the offense and the appropriateness of the intrusion to investigate the offense. Some offenses we could put in the category of being offenses only if they are in plain sight. Someone getting drunk in the privacy of his home or club and not causing immediate offense causes no offense to the state. But I have never liked the "conservative" view of search and seizure, and Scalia's views of the power of the state here, I think, will tarnish his reputation as an originalist in the long term.
That 9th decision was bad. Reminded me of the "turn in your neighbor" policies. This isn't a bomb or gun threat or anything with imminent danger. This isn't "Special needs," as far as I can see. This is at worst and advanced form of over the counter medication - 2 Advils. What I liked about the dissent, is that it never lost sight of that fact. This is less severe than even smokin' in the girls room.
If this happened in a state university version of Princeton, there would be hell to pay, and I think would have been tossed out.
My worry is that too many conservatives are so worried about "special needs doctrine" for emergencies that they'll put up with this type of stuff to reserve that power. That's what balancing acts do. I've seen the attitudes change just here on FR over the last 7 years, and that includes among lawyers.
Clearly not. What’s a young girl’s right count for anyway to perverts like that. They’ll use any excuse to molest someone, or support it.
I still think his job is being a principal. Only another principal is brain damaged enough to see nothing wrong with this.
That he will never do. He hasn’t done so yet. All he’s done is approved of child molestation and abuse and projected his perverted fantasies on everyone else accusing them of thinking like he does.
Not based on statements or actions by school staff.
But feel free to try produce any.
He can’t get a clue. Like an object falling into a black hole, it’ll get lost forever in the space that should have been occupied by his brain.
No quote, of course.
The folks who want "special powers" ought to understand the clear distinction between the need for dealing with incursions of terrorists and this sort of thing. Confuting the one with the other to justify strip searching girls to see if they are carrying Advil, demonstrates that the untrammeled powers of the state are a greater threat than terrorists ever could be.
You already supplied it.
You can't support your assertion. Dude.
I think you would be a poor student.
Nope the average principal has more problems and responsibilities than any reasonable human being can cope with. Clear guidelines on where to draw the line is his/her friend. This guy is clearly a power-hungry assistant deputy administrator for BS. That is the sort of person who lusts after the instruments of authority.
It's not just kids. Parents are the same way.
Somehow this mentality that the schools have the authority to tell you what to do with your private, personal life has cropped up (no doubt aided by the teachers unions and other mindless jack booted thug perverts who want absolute control over others) and parents have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Now they can't think or make decisions for themselves without looking for the schools permission. Just the way some people like it.
But strangely you can't quote the "demand".
That doesn't matter.
You certainly aren't responsible for anything having to do with education, since you don't even understand what a dictionary is for.
I know. All that matters is what you feel.
It depends on who’s on the receiving end of the strip search. The principal should be subject to one in front of a school nurse and another teacher.
You are basing your defense of these jack-booted thugs on the splitting of a semantic hair that won't split.
Your deranged fantasies. That's what you've been arguing for all along.
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