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NRA T-shirt and the First Amendment
By The Washington Times Friday, June 21, 2013
NRA T-shirt = $500 fine & year in jail for 14yr. old student in W. VA?
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NRA T-shirt and the First Amendment
By The Washington Times Friday, June 21, 2013
The 14-year-old West Virginia student who was arrested in April after refusing to remove his National Rifle Association T-shirt was formally charged with obstructing an officer last week and could face up to a year in jail. Jared Marcum, then an eighth-grader at Logan Middle School in Logan, W.Va., got into an argument in late April with his teacher, who requested that the youth remove an NRA T-shirt that featured the image of a rifle and the “Protect Your Right” slogan. The Logan County School District prohibits clothing with profanity, violence or discriminatory messages, but does not mention gun images.
When Jared objected, the police were called, and he was arrested for obstructing an officer and disrupting the educational process. He returned to school the next week in the same T-shirt to make a point, and other students reportedly wore similar shirts as a showing of solidarity.
Now, Jared faces a $500 fine and a maximum of one year in jail. Every aspect of this is just totally wrong. If this poor kid goes to jail for a year our system just created a criminal for life. Go after the gang members in Chicago and Camden, N.J., instead. Stop going after these poor kids for something their liberal teachers don’t believe in. These teachers need to stick to teaching, not pushing their political views onto our children. All this kid did was exercise his First Amendment rights.
When Jared objected, the police were called, and he was arrested for obstructing an officer and disrupting the educational process. He returned to school the next week in the same T-shirt to make a point, and other students reportedly wore similar shirts as a showing of solidarity.
Now, Jared faces a $500 fine and a maximum of one year in jail. Every aspect of this is just totally wrong. If this poor kid goes to jail for a year our system just created a criminal for life. Go after the gang members in Chicago and Camden, N.J., instead. Stop going after these poor kids for something their liberal teachers don’t believe in. These teachers need to stick to teaching, not pushing their political views onto our children. All this kid did was exercise his First Amendment rights.
That's not cool at all
I have a bad feeling this sort of garbage will get worse before it gets better.
What a bunch of crap, the kids a criminal, right. Too many ignorant stupid people in this world.
I remember being told once by a principal and some others at a school that students don't have those rights. My senior year I only had one actual class at my high school as I was a transfer as a Sophomore and actually had enough credits to graduate as a Junior without even trying. I made them pay for college classes as I had already maxed out what was available in their computer programs, the only other actual class was a shop class, LOL. I was supposed to have a phys ed class after lunch and I never even went to it that year, only counted as 1/8th credit anyway so WTH right?
I would wear budweiser shirts, big johnson shirts among other crap just to piss them off. They would tell me to turn it inside out or go home I would tell them "see you later" they tried the game of not graduating and when I informed them that I was already eligible for graduation there was nothing they could do. I always played it straight before that year so I was going to have fun no matter what.
But sorry to say what I was wearing was advertising beer, which I couldn't buy anyway or with big sexual innuendos, a kid wearing a shirt that is at the most patriotic though differs from a teachers opinion is just bull. The school system has become a breeding ground for sheeple and the teachers are there to force students to conform to the system. All they want to produce is factory or office workers who do as they are told and never think outside of the box. Supporting an opinion about a right that is bestowed upon us through the constitution does not conform to their system and therefor the thinker must be forced into submission.
I would wear budweiser shirts, big johnson shirts among other crap just to piss them off. They would tell me to turn it inside out or go home I would tell them "see you later" they tried the game of not graduating and when I informed them that I was already eligible for graduation there was nothing they could do. I always played it straight before that year so I was going to have fun no matter what.
But sorry to say what I was wearing was advertising beer, which I couldn't buy anyway or with big sexual innuendos, a kid wearing a shirt that is at the most patriotic though differs from a teachers opinion is just bull. The school system has become a breeding ground for sheeple and the teachers are there to force students to conform to the system. All they want to produce is factory or office workers who do as they are told and never think outside of the box. Supporting an opinion about a right that is bestowed upon us through the constitution does not conform to their system and therefor the thinker must be forced into submission.
That is just messed up. Obstruction....psh.
Judge dismissed the charges.
At least that judge had his head on straight.
Still need to disbar the DA and fire the cop.
The parents have some sort of civil litigation to get the school system to pay for their associated legal costs.
At least that judge had his head on straight.
Still need to disbar the DA and fire the cop.
The parents have some sort of civil litigation to get the school system to pay for their associated legal costs.
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