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To: Hemingway's Ghost
"do you think there would be a large market for pills smuggled around in another girl's underwear or bra?"

If she was called to the office, she may have had time to transfer the drugs from her backpack to her bra. Her willingness to allow them to search her backpack was, therefore, meaningless.

So your objection to this whole incident is that she shouldn't have been searched at all because, at best, all they would have found would have been more Advil. But the Advil was against school policy. Which means you're saying they should have the policy (to please the parents) but not enforce it (to please the students).

I'm speechless.

118 posted on 04/03/2008 8:46:34 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
I'm speechless

One wishes you had been speechless before you unsheathed your fangs and spit this noxious venom.

You are a damnable depraved lout with no sense of decency if you cannnot see how over the top the entire conduct of this school is. Your fascist notion of what is acceptable under a zero-tolerance policy just ran headlong into what is completely intolerable to a civilized society.

120 posted on 04/03/2008 8:57:08 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: robertpaulsen
If she was called to the office, she may have had time to transfer the drugs from her backpack to her bra. Her willingness to allow them to search her backpack was, therefore, meaningless.

You should read the story more closely, my friend:

When Wilson ordered the search, the only evidence that Savana had violated school policy was the uncorroborated accusation from Marissa, who was in trouble herself and eager to shift the blame. Even Marissa (who had pills in her pockets, not her underwear) did not claim that Savana currently possessed any pills, let alone that she had hidden them under her clothes.

Savana, who was closely supervised after Wilson approached her, did not have an opportunity to stash contraband.

So your objection to this whole incident is that she shouldn't have been searched at all because, at best, all they would have found would have been more Advil. But the Advil was against school policy. Which means you're saying they should have the policy (to please the parents) but not enforce it (to please the students).

No, my objection to this whole incident is one of scope: this girl was subjected to a strip-search because she was merely accused by another girl of possessing Advil. Honestly, you can't appreciate how ridiculous this whole thing has become? On nothing but an uncorroborated accusation from a girl already in trouble for doing something she shouldn't have done, this school administrator thought it perfectly reasonable to force another girl to disrobe, and present her private parts to another administrator, to prove the allegations false. "Innocent until proven guilty" has turned into "guilty until you can prove yourself innocent."

I'm sure you've never been the subject of a strip-search, of course, because you lead such a squeaky-clean life and you're such a good friend to the law enforcement community, but I can tell you from personal knowledge that a strip-search is 100% not fun. But then again, for all intents and purposes, this little girl was just like you---perfectly innocent, just going about her life; she just happened to be accused by someone of doing something she wasn't doing. I can't imagine that if you found yourself in similar circumstances, you'd find such an unwarranted and invasive search perfectly sane and reasonable.


123 posted on 04/03/2008 9:07:43 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: robertpaulsen
So your objection to this whole incident is that she shouldn't have been searched at all because, at best, all they would have found would have been more Advil. But the Advil was against school policy.

Dude, it's f#$&ing Advil!!! Jesus Christ.

1,077 posted on 04/06/2008 8:25:50 AM PDT by jmc813 (Attn Bartender: WHAT'S on Stinking TAP?!?)
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