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FLA law on no tolerance
Florida enacted a statute that at least requires school boards to review "no tolerance" policies.
"In Hernando County, an 11-year-old girl was suspended for bringing a plastic butter knife to school. A student in Brandon was suspended because a calculator he brought to school was equipped with a "knife-like object.""
It's strange that while certain governmental units are enthusiastic about "no tolerance" in relation to their enforcement against individuals, they don't appear at all enthusiastic about having it applied to them -- i.e., they rush to plead qualified immunity ("even if we violated his constitutional rights, we shouldn't be liable since they were not 'clearly' established" -- i.e., we probably wouldn't have known we were doing wrong).
Comments
I'm not that old (40), and I remember carrying a pocket knife to school every day for shop class. Our school taught hunter's safety as part of the curriculum, and there was a rack of air rifles in one of the classrooms for that.
Zero tolerance flies in the face of our legal system's checks and balances by removing mens rea from the equation. If you ignore intent, then you can make almost any act a crime.
Posted by: sgtlmj at July 12, 2009 02:20 PM
Good point which makes the bottom line very clear. The parasites have made the citizen body their personal slaves. The parasites have the guns and the prisons so we have to do as they say. I strongly believe change will be coming, its going to get worse, far worse.
Frankly, it blows my mind that peope are so unwillling to view the real world and will put their lives in danger to live in that make believe world in front of the TV.
Posted by: AvgJoe at July 12, 2009 05:32 PM
Zero Tolerance = Zero Intelligence.
Pass it on.
Posted by: Bill Twist at July 13, 2009 08:49 AM
"Custer was a pussy!" - We Were Soldiers
The world is filled with pussies today.
Everyone is afraid.
Feminized men run and hide with the women.
We drug up kids for made up illnesses that the parents want the kids to have so the parents can't be blamed for not disciplining their kids.
Teachers want the boys to behave like girls.
We left the farms and moved to the cities. Now we live like rats.
People, especially educators, have no common sense, no morals (see teachers having sex with students, tiny penises. Teeny weeny syndrome is a major cause of problems. "See I can make you do things. I run your life. I'm a boss!" Freaking dickless people.
Public schools have had and still have only one reason for existing. That reason is NOT to educate. That reason is to brainwash the people so the government can have the society those controlling the government want.
Tiocfaidh ar la!
Posted by: fwb at July 13, 2009 10:00 AM