J.A.I.L. News
Journal
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Los
Angeles,
California
May 15, 2001
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The Thought
Police
The Associated Press
May 11,
2001
OLDSMAR -- A boy was taken from his elementary school in
handcuffs after
his classmates turned him in for drawing pictures of
weapons. ...
``There were some drawings that were
confiscated by the teacher,'' Oldsmar
Elementary School Principal David
Schmitt said. ``The children were in no
danger at all. It involved no
real weapons.''
Still, Schmitt refused to discuss details of the
boy's case.
``All I can tell you is it was a threat . . . against
students,'' he said.
``Nobody in particular, but students in
general.
``We just need to get it through kids' heads that there are
certain things
you don't say and there are certain things you don't
draw,'' he said.
The boy was handcuffed by school police for his
safety, according to
Pinellas County School District spokesman Ron
Stone.
``That's normal procedure in a situation like this,'' Stone
said. ``The
primary concern was to make sure we get appropriate services
for the
child.''
Making threats is not unusual for students in
elementary and middle
schools, said Nancy Zambito, a director of school
operations for the school
district.
Depending on the severity of
the threat, Zambito said, the outcome for the
student can be a number of
things.
Those possibilities range from disciplinary action by the
school _ like
suspension or expulsion _ to being arrested, or taken to a
hospital under
Florida's Baker Act, which allows for the involuntary
commitment of people
who threaten or try to hurt themselves or
others.
``It's nothing unusual and we address them all seriously
because, of
course, we don't know,'' Zambito said. ``And in most cases,
our prime goal
is to let those students know what is appropriate to say
and what is not,
and how to be angry and cute and funny without alarming
people.''
Copyright © 2001, South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
Have we now become to sensitive that one can
no longer draw a picture of a knife or a gun without turned in
and hand-cuffed? Are we not only one step away from being arrested for
exercising our thought processes?
All in the name of "art," what is being
promoted at taxpayer expense? An upside down broken cross floating in a
bottle of urine! One man urinating in the mouth of another man, etc., etc.
This is called expression of thought, but drawing on a sheet of paper
an outline of a knife or gun is not, and you can be hand-cuffed and carted
off.
I can see it now, "Ladies and gentlemen of the
jury, the law says no person can carry a piece of paper with a drawing of a
gun, and the defendant was obviously in possession of such a drawing. The
law clearly states such should be condemned. What say you?"
Did not even Christ say, let him that hath no
sword, sell his cloak and buy a sword? Oh, no, not even a drawing of a
sword, but a real sword. Horrors.
-Ron Branson-
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