When people in power over others make very bad decisions.

[Khaos]

When a police officer tells you to drop your weapon, they wont ask again. They are trained to shoot to kill, and will kill you if you do not follow their order. Nothing wrong here. The officers felt threatened when the boy refused to drop the knife and they shot him. Common sense, folks. Don't point weapons at the police.

 

[Khaos]

Did cops need a Taser, riot shield and shotgun to subdue a 95-year-old veteran? - Chicago Tribune

Ha yeah, the police here just set themselves up for a lawsuit till the end of time.

 

[Opmmur]

Narrow Escape from Terror: Child Suspended After a Quarter-Sized Gun Keychain Falls from His Backpack
Sunday, September 29, 2013 8:17

(Before It's News)



Imagine the terror of looking over at the 12 year old next to you and seeing fall from his backpack … A GUN!!!!!

That was precisely what happened at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School in Coventry, R.I last week in a terrifying episode that thankfully left no one injured and one 7th grader named Joseph Lyssikatos suspended and banned from the school trip.

Of course, the gun was on a keychain and was the size of a quarter.

The two-inch keychain fell out of Lyssikatos’s backpack while he was at school.

After another kid picked it up and displayed it to other students, a teacher intervened and impounded the keychain.

Apparently fearing that the roughly quarter-sized hunk of cheap metal was somehow a danger to life and limb, school officials sprang into action. They suspended Lyssikatos for three days. He has also been banned from an upcoming class field trip.

The boy’s parents aren’t pleased.

“This boy was the one waving it or showing it to other kids. Not Joseph,” Bonnie Bonanno, Joseph’s stepmother, told WJAR. “Joseph wasn’t doing that so why weren’t both of them reprimanded?”

Lyssikatos noted that he got the tiny keychain at a local arcade with go-karts and such in exchange for 25 tickets.

Someone called a behavioral specialist at Feinstein Middle School informed the boy’s parents of the suspension. The parents say the principal and the school district superintendent won’t return phone calls.

The Feinstein Middle School handbook entitled “Serious Disciplinary Infractions” declares: “Possession/carrying/use of/threat of use of a firearm or replica shall result in a recommendation for expulsion for a period of time up to one full calendar year.”

The boy’s father, Keith Bonanno, claimed on WPRO radio that the behavioral specialist told him his son was “lucky that he didn’t get suspended for 10 days, or even worse expelled.” (source)

The nation is gripped with a media-fueled anti-gun hysteria. Perfectly safe and legal activities are under scrutiny, like the kids who were playing with an airsoft gun at home and somehow managed to get suspended from school. Like the kid who bit his Pop-tart into a mountainbut got suspended because it looked like a gun. Like the child who was suspended for bringing a terrifying pink Hello Kitty bubble gun to school. Like the kid whose birthday cupcakes were confiscated because they had army guys with guns on them. Heck, kids aren’t even supposed to talk about guns and the schools are convincing them that they should be petrified by these things by offering them counseling.

When can we institute a zero tolerance policy on stupidity?

 

[Opmmur]

Grandma arrested for cursing
78-year-old Louisiana woman charged after swearing at neighbor during argument
By Samantha Morgan

POSTED: 12:30 PM MDT Oct 02, 2013 UPDATED: 02:18 PM MDT Oct 02, 2013

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  Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (NBC33) -
  A 78-year-old woman was arrested for disturbing the peace after she yelled and cursed at her neighbor during an argument.
  
  According to the arrest report, the incident happened on Saturday. The Lafayette Police Department responded to a home on Elizabeth Street and spoke to the victim.
  
  "The suspect [Hellen Burley] came to his residence and began to curse and yell at him," the report noted. "The victim advised that he got his cell phone and began to record the suspect yelling and cursing at him."
  
  The officer watched the video and believed there was enough probable cause to arrest the 4-foot-10-inch elderly woman.
  
  Burley has a prior arrest for a violation of the city's leash law and interfering with the duties of an animal control officer.

 

[Khaos]

Some cities and states have laws against cursing in public. There was a story last year about a lady here in Michigan who was sentenced to jail for swearing. Charges were dropped, but she was still arrested under the law in that town. So its really not a "bad decision" if its against the law, how is that a bad decision to punish someone?

Do you believe that if someone drinks and drives, and blows that red light, smacks into someone riding a motorcycle, killing them, that the drunk person should be let off the hook? I hope not...

 

[TnWatchdog]

Some cities and states have laws against cursing in public. There was a story last year about a lady here in Michigan who was sentenced to jail for swearing. Charges were dropped, but she was still arrested under the law in that town. So its really not a "bad decision" if its against the law, how is that a bad decision to punish someone?

Do you believe that if someone drinks and drives, and blows that red light, smacks into someone riding a motorcycle, killing them, that the drunk person should be let off the hook? I hope not...

The lady should wear a sign saying...'I have a potty mouth.' Most people don't like to look stupid so public humiliation could be considered to teach a lesson or two. More serious crimes could have more serious punishments. Some people think it is cool to swear in public but what about children that have to hear this...or anyone else? Not a good thing.

 

[Opmmur]

White House

Dr. Ben Carson says IRS targeted him for his anti-Obama comments
Published October 03, 2013
FoxNews.com

Dr. Ben Carson says IRS targeted him for his anti-Obama comments | Fox News



WASHINGTON – Dr. Ben Carson, the former surgeon who criticized President Obama over his lack of leadership and health care plan earlier this year, now claims he was unfairly targeted by the IRS because of his comments against the administration.

During an interview on "The O’Reilly Factor" Wednesday, Carson says the Internal Revenue Service started looking into his real estate holdings following his comments against the White House at the National Prayer Breakfast in February.

Carson says he had never had a problem with the tax-collecting agency until he spoke out against the president.

Eventually, the IRS conducted a full audit against Carson and found no wrongdoing, he said.

When asked directly by O’Reilly if he was targeted because of his anti-Obama stance, Carson responded, “Well, whether that was the case or not, the fundamental issue here is that the freedom of our citizens is being threatened.”

Carson went on to say he thought the issue is a “much more serious thing than Watergate or Iran-Contra or Benghazigate. Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, is one of the major principles of our country.”

Carson, a former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, first said he was targeted by the IRS at an event in Birmingham, Ala., Monday night.

“I had my first encounter with the IRS this year, unsurprisingly after the prayer breakfast,” he said at the annual Business Council of Alabama Chairman’s Dinner.

Calls to the IRS for comment were not immediately returned.

 

[Samstwitch]

America has become a Nazi State that is chipping away our rights, and brainwashing our children. It's all about fear and control! If you don't believe me, research what happened in Germany and Europe when Adolf Hitler came into power.

New York school bans balls, tag during recess

Tossing a ball or playing a game of tag has long been a rite of passage at schoolyards across the country, but one New York school has banned those activities and more.

Officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington, Long Island, have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, games of rough tag or even cartwheels unless supervised by an adult or a coach, according to Newsday. The kids are allowed to play with foam Nerf balls during 20-minute recess periods, according to the paper.

Port Washington Schools Superintendent Kathleen Mooney's declined to comment, but referred queries to a a statement from the district. The district is nearing the end of a construction project at the middle school, the statement said, and because of the project, "there is limited space for the students to enjoy a 20-minute recess period."

With children so near one another, "it is not safe for them to be engaged in unstructured play with hard balls," the statement said. "Absent the confined space within which recess must temporarily be held, such restrictions would not be necessary."

Students, perhaps unsurprisingly, were not thrilled by the news.

“That’s all we want to do,” one student said told CBS New York. “We’re in school all day sitting behind the desk learning.”

Another student characterized the ban as “ridiculous” while another said recess should be treated as free time.

Parents, meanwhile, said they believed the change in policy is more about avoiding lawsuits.

“Children’s safety is paramount, but at the same time, you have to let them live life,” said parent Ellen Cohen.

Several nearby school districts have already contacted Nassau County educators, indicating the trend may spread. Softer foam balls, district officials say, will decrease the chances of injury during recess.

The district reported that middle school students still are able to participate in structured activities with hard balls during gym and intramural athletics.

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[Khaos]

I see it more of playing it safe, than taking away rights. If they took away rights, they wouldn't let them play period. We never had recess in school. Talk about taking rights away. *rolleyes*

Of course, we should totally allow children to throw hard objects such as rocks and baseballs at each other, because afterall those things can't kill people /sarcasm

 

[Samstwitch]

I see it more of playing it safe, than taking away rights. If they took away rights, they wouldn't let them play period. We never had recess in school. Talk about taking rights away. *rolleyes*

Of course, we should totally allow children to throw hard objects such as rocks and baseballs at each other, because afterall those things can't kill people /sarcasm

Do you regard these Administrative Actions as 'playing it safe' as well, or do you consider it as over-reacting? AUTHORITIES OUT-OF-CONTROL: School Children Reprimanded for harmless play labeled as "Violent"