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Old 10-13-2009, 09:14 AM   #1
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First grader brings Cub Scout utensil to school; faces reform school

The world has gone mad, I tell you, MAD.

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Old 10-13-2009, 09:27 AM   #2
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What are you, soft on crime?
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Old 10-13-2009, 09:48 AM   #3
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The world has gone mad, I tell you, MAD.
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You might feel differently if he had stabbed your child with the spoon!
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Old 10-13-2009, 09:54 AM   #4
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You might feel differently if he had stabbed your child with the spoon!
Well, sure. But there are already strict laws about stabbing children with spoons.
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:04 AM   #5
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It just goes to prove my theory that Cub Scouts are Amerika's answer to the Hitler Youth. Send them all to Gitmo, so the rest of us can be safe.
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Old 10-16-2009, 05:08 AM   #6
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It just goes to prove my theory that Cub Scouts are Amerika's answer to the Hitler Youth. Send them all to Gitmo, so the rest of us can be safe.
And here's England's answer...

http://youth.bnp.org.uk/archives/286

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That evening we had a meal fit for St. George himself. Baked potatoes with melted butter, hot from the fire and enough barbequed meat to feed an army of patriotic young lions. When the youngsters had finished washing up (no shirking on this camp) we snuggled down around the fire to have marshmallows and stories. We kicked off by telling the story of George and the Dragon, then of how the Emperor Diocletian had put brave George to death for his beliefs.
It is extremely sad that children of this latest generation, myself among them until I joined the BNP and began to fill in the considerable gaps left by a PC education system, seem almost entirely unaware of the rich history of our people. That night at least, we had tried to put right a small part of that wrong.

We went on to discuss other local tales, such as the building of Avebury, which was not too far from us and then each related some of our own stories of racial and political persecution. Some of the stories told to me by a little ten year old girl and her mother left me feeling physically sick. Beaten on the way home from school, tires slashed and windows put through. What made it far worse was the reaction, or should I say, non-reaction from the police. But I reminded myself that the family was here, round this fire, sharing this story but still active members of the party and in the light of the embers I’m sure I caught a glint of that stoic spirit found in all true English folk.
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Old 10-13-2009, 09:59 AM   #7
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Interesting that they justify the zero tolerance policy by explaining that the administrators are probably racists. What an awesome school district...
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:00 AM   #8
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I think it's a typo. They are sending him to refork school.

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Old 10-13-2009, 10:07 AM   #9
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Damn mandatory sentencing laws.

Zero tolerance has never worked and it keeps giving the media ammunition like this. You never hear that a 18 yo punk, on probation for trying to steal cars, pulled a switchblade on a teacher who was trying to break up a fistfight. It always seems to be something like this silliness.
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:34 AM   #10
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He might be a "terrist", send his ass to Gitmo!
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:49 AM   #11
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And that's Joe Biden's home territory.
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:57 AM   #12
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Yes it is. I was thinkin the same thing, but I dunno what, if anything, he had to do with it. Laws that take the administration of those laws out of the hands of those most "in the know" seem to turn out badly.
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Old 10-13-2009, 11:00 AM   #13
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Yes it is. I was thinkin the same thing, but I dunno what, if anything, he had to do with it. Laws that take the administration of those laws out of the hands of those most "in the know" seem to turn out badly.
I don't think it's a "law" at all. I think it's the school district's policy.
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Christina School District’s zero-tolerance policy toward weapons in school,
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Old 10-13-2009, 11:20 AM   #14
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I don't think it's a "law" at all. I think it's the school district's policy.
I don't give a rats ass if its a Law or a policy. The fact that those in charge cannot actually look at the situation and make a determination of appropriate action is SCHTU-PIT.
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Old 10-13-2009, 11:22 AM   #15
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I don't give a rats ass if its a Law or a policy. The fact that those in charge cannot actually look at the situation and make a determination of appropriate action is SCHTU-PIT.
Yeah, but you sure were ready to hop right on the Biden-fault Express.

But run away from that point now, by telling us what we already know.
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