So please keep us all informed and particularly if a legal fund is established.
Ping me for any outcomes you are able to post here.
I believe appointment to U.S. military academies require the congressman’s recommendation. My suggestion would be to ask the congressional office to study the situation and determine that it will not hinder his congressman’s recommendation. It might be that if the Congressman’s office called the school or district and stated that they don’t want this to hindr Matthew’s appointment to West Point, it might be sufficient pressure to get this thrown out.
Obviously, the commandant of West Point would most likely laugh himself to tears over this, and all other things being in order, would welcome this young man.
But something has got to be done about this mind set that destroys good people while leaving the crud and waste of society virtually untouched.
The world has truly gone insane. I carried a pocket knife at least that big when I was in fourth grade. All the boys carried knives and sometimes the teacher would borrow a knife from one of us. This insanity must be stopped somehow.
I actually heard from the reporter that he talked to congressman Tonko and that his office knows of the situation and that they talked to West Point already and were told this "issue" won't be a problem for Matt.
So, at least we have good news on that front. Keep up the pressure on the school district and make them miserable. I expect that they'll have a media nightmare to deal with next week once FOX and others start calling them.
Know what? I am past the point of wanting to talk about this kind of crap.
Pretty soon enough others will be too, and some power hungry intellectually lazy administrator type is going to pull this baloney on the wrong guy.
And said administrator will get the crap beat out of him followed by dancing in air whilst dangling under a lamp post.
And I will rejoice upon hearing the news of it.
Here’s a link to the video. Perhaps some freeper with a youtube or liveleak account could post it to get some more widespread attention.
The military trusts this kid with an M-4 carbine but he can’t have a 2 inch pocket knife in a survival kit in his car? Time to call the ACLU!
The very existence of "zero tolerance policies" speaks volumes about the incompetence of today's school administrators. They demand big paychecks while shunning every situation where the exercise of good judgment would be of value. You might has well hire a barely literate bum off the street with instructions to follow the "zero tolerance" policies without deviation.
Last time I checked my belt, tie, pens, pencils, glasses and a plastic bag are all deadly in the right circumstances. The knives, forks, spoons and other tableware in a cafeteria make for good weapons. And the science labs and gyms are freaking arsenals.
It's not reasonable to consider a 2 inch knife a "weapon". Sure it could be used as one, but so could a sharp pencil, probably with more effect.
This is ridiculous. I hope this makes Beck and Dobbs. The Army needs this young man and we need him in the Army.
They’re talking about this on Fox News now.
I think it’s Greta’s show, but someone is substituting.
Zero tolerance policies are idiotic and don’t work. Dolts in the community respond to things like Columbine by coming up with what they think is a sensable hard and fast rule. I mean who could disagree with no weapons on campus, right? Problem is that they leave no room for common sense and no room for an administrator to enforce the intent of the rule and look at the whole situation. The natural outcome is kids getting suspended for butter knifes and pocket knifes.
Were I an official at that school and not hampered by a stupid zero tolerance rule i’d just tell him in a polite way that the pocket knife isn’t allowed in the building and to please in the future just keep it in his car. Simple as that. He sounds like a kid who’d listen to that and if he didn’t maybe give him something minor like a period of ISS. Were I an official bound by this policy i’d just pretend I didn’t see anything and tell him the same thing.
You also have to blame a legal system where trial lawyers have been allowed to run wild. Schools and even a lot of private sector organizations are terrified about being sued and often react is these idiotic ways. Thank you people like John Edwards for killing common sense.
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The teen is a Eagle Scout IE. a Boy Scout on steroids, which means he's obviously a homophobe, so he's a threat to his gender dysphoric schoolmates.
He's expressed an interest in the military, so he's obviously prone to violent tendencies.
He's carrying survival gear, which ties him to the right wing militia movement if not to Eric Robert Rudolph, the abortion clinic bomber.
This kid is dangerous, that he sees fit to go armed with an assault pen knife only proves it.