Students Strip Searched In Schools???

I am so glad I graduated.

"Disconnecting searches from individualized suspicion is what led to the Goose Creek scandal in 2003. That South Carolina city sent a machine-gun toting SWAT team into a high school because the principal suspected one of the students might be selling marijuana. 150 terrified students were handcuffed and forced to the floor at gunpoint as drug dogs tore through their book bags. No drugs or guns were ever found."

This is the kind of shit that really gets to me. And JCT, you're right. The government loopholing itself around the fucking constitution is sickening. And searching students in school is violating a person's right to unreasonable searches and seizures. Having a joint isn't going to kill anyone.

 

I agree with you. The drug testing of students has gone to far as well.

 

Does anyone have an idea as to when this bull may reach the senate?

 

I can't find anything that indicates when the Senate is expected to consider the bill. It probably won't be this session. There have already been so many draconian laws that have been very easily passed in this country, almost unnoticed, that it almost gets to be routine. The House bill was passed with a simple voice vote and wasn't even discussed in committee-just pushed through-there's not even any record of how each legislator voted.

Look, this law was passed on the pretense that it will 'protect' students and teachers. What we need to do is to tell the government we don't need any more of its 'protection'. Every time one of these laws is passed, all it does is take more of our rights away, and doesn't protect anybody. I've been trtying to wake people up about this kind of crap for years, and the problem is that almost nobody cares. The vast majority of Americans are just content to let the government do any damn thing it wants to do. I'ts really scary.

 

These are serious issues. Thank you for bringing them up. We are quickly losing our rights and we need to change what we can.

This reminds me of something that happened at my High School fairly recently. My boyfriend got searched and escaped more huge legal/school trouble by a hair.. I wont go into detail.. but it was such a shock that he got searched in the first place that we both quit smoking marijuana period until things settle down in our country. But, well, it's looking grim, isn't it?

I don't understand the need to make criminals out of drug users (especially marijuana) when alcohol is seen as such a bigger problem in my opinion.. but that's a whole other conversation to address.

It's depressing to see our rights being taken away little by little... taking away the rights of kids scares me above most.

 

Yes, DQ Veg.. it IS downright frightening. People are ignorant to a frightening extent.. I'm tired of the vast majority of Americans being content to let the government control nearly every aspect of their lives.

Arrghh... *walks away mumbling something about George Orwell's "1984"*