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1/20/2007
10:14:01 am EST
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Update: Education Officials Allow Yearbook Photo Of Teen With A Sword
Author: AP Source: Boston Globe (MA)
Title: EDUCATION OFFICIALS ALLOW YEARBOOK PHOTO OF TEEN WITH A SWORD
Rhode Island's education commissioner ordered Portsmouth High School on Friday to publish a yearbook photo it earlier rejected because it showed a teenage medieval enthusiast holding a sword.
Patrick Agin, 17, a fan of the Middle Ages, wore chain mail and slung a prop sword over his shoulder for his senior portrait. School officials claimed the picture violated a zero-tolerance policy on weapons.
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| I Think It's Odd That... | Jan 22nd. at 8:48:21 pm EST
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Ahria (Minot AFB, Iowa) - Email Me
anyone said anything about it at all. A class-mate of mine started fencing when he was four, so in his senior picture, he had his fencing sword. No one said anything about it at all.
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| Zero Tolerance | Jan 22nd. at 5:20:01 pm EST
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Paradox Greymind (Lexington, California) - Email Me
This Article and the subsequint posts remind of a song from a musicain i Know Calle Zero Tolerance By John Mitchell Its Hilarious in that in most cases its true
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| I Am So Sick | Jan 20th. at 11:54:10 pm EST
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Witchy Way (Social Circle, Georgia) - Email Me
Of all the political/socio/economic bullsh*t. Especially the " zero tolerence =zero commonsense" part.
Google a little diddy called "Then and Now"..
rings so true. Better not vote for Hillary, or you'll have no individual rights left at all. For crying out loud, it's just a photograph!
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| Psychotic With Personal Agenda Abusing Power | Jan 20th. at 2:48:31 pm EST
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me
Picture Portsmouth Schools Superintendent Susan Lusi standing blindfolded and chained before a firing squad in an editorial cartoon, and someone at a phone calling out to the officer with his hand raised about to give the order to shoot, yelling the ACLU says to let her go.
As a public figure in the context of local politics and government, many people who work as teachers are uncomfortable when libel and slander laws attach the standards of public figures rather than private persons to their official actions and employment, never mind the full scope of civil rights laws.
Ms Lusi appears to be far beyond being another corrupt or incompetent bureaucrat, but to be at least in some areas a full blown psychotic in her inability to deal with legal and social reality, or distinguish her personal political agenda from her legal obligations as a government agent. This type of increasingly common school official often recruits D.A.R.E. officers to violate Federal law and psychologically indoctrinate kids into our war on select drug rights while displaying real arms and threats of their use to violate civil rights to kids, while tolerating pictures of pistols inside red slashed circles some kids are prompted to draw in response to such illegal indoctrination. But, speech about legal uses of arms, including explicit rights to possess or use real ones, not just casual speech about them, is censored and penalized, in an atmosphere of chilling illegal prior restraint.
Such school officials need to be personally penalized for their illegal political actions.
All schools require kids to carry around the most common weapons used in the majority of actual violent felonies. "Personal weapons", or human body parts, and "blunt objects", or nearly anything like a shoe, book bag, rock, athletic items, laptop, or chair, natural or man made, are documented in NCIC data as the two classes of weapons actually used in an average of 52% of violent felonies each year.
That reality is very awkward for officials with personal prejudices, agendas, and detachment from fact based reality, to reconcile with fraudulent use of in loco parentis authority (versus "loco in the membrane" as ICP lyrics might describe Ms Lusi) , or rational basis or compelling state interest regulation of legitimate health and safety issues might justify, to narrowly regulate select "weapons" at school, never mind speech about their legal or illegal uses. Rhode Island, as the second state in the country (after CT, in 1993) to adopt a state level "mini-RFRA" to mitigate a Rehnquist court miscarriage of Free Exercise rights over Native American peyote traditions, at its state level arguably has the same obligations California courts have adjudicated requiring their schools to respect religious rights of Sikh students to carry lethal daggers (kirpans) as 1st or 3rd grade students, not just as older young adult males able to act more responsibly. Then come the Federal preemption laws for historic reenactment weapons, which exempt the same kind of historic arms depicted in this yearbook photo from otherwise valid state weapons restriction laws, protecting the right to carry and use the real swords and other weapons, not just speech about them.
Ms. Lusi might be better off in a well protected rubber room on suitable medications, as she's clearly not dealing with the real world issues and obligations as a government official.
As to the ACLU "saving" her, 2nd Amendment rights to summarily execute government agents are part of a tricky balance in our Constitution's design. They're only triggered when "soap", "ballot", and "jury" boxes fail to provide justice, and the "cartridge" box by design becomes the last remedy. The ACLU, by helping to litigate compliance with law, in effect helped save Ms. Lusi from the other option for which her actions could have qualified her.
Another option for an editorial cartoon, perhaps more fitting, would be to depict the censored student using his sword to behead her, in defense against all enemies, foreign and _domestic_. Anyone who's read the Jefferson comments on society advancing to be less barbaric, found in stone on the Southeast wall of his monument, would realize that use of violence is part of our historic government design not to cause or promote violence, but to reduce or defend against its wrongful use.
The challenge today is when society has shifted such that economic systems and communications may exist as more effective weapons than light arms, what exactly is the meaning of our Constitution and its sequence of remedies against an incredibly corrupt government?
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| Looks To Me Like | Jan 20th. at 1:57:40 pm EST
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Ursyl (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
the higher-ups saw through the selective enforcement of the school administration.
I hope they also point out that a photo of an object is not the object itself.
I was rather surprised at such a superstitious action from a modern public school.
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| Lists And Kitchens? | Jan 20th. at 11:25:20 am EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
"He added that past editions of the yearbook contain photos showing items banned by school rules, including a corn cob pipe, liquor bottles, a beer stein, toy guns, arrows and a knife. The school band's banner depicts a rifle-totting patriot."
Are all the knives in the School Cafeteria shorter than the breadth of the Cook's Palm? I know the Hindus have a type of blade, which is mounted so the Food can be sliced against it, and this may be a product for that kind of environment.
I'm also wondering what kind of treatment that school allows for teaching the Second Amendment.
When my Paternal Great Uncles and Great Aunts turned 15, they each got /38s.
Arawn
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