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Gun Ban School arrests 5-yr-old girl for 'terrorist threat' (blowing bubbles)

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UPDATED: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:23
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:22 AM

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A school that suspended a five-year-old girl for “threatening” class mates with a Hello Kitty bubble gun will not back down on the issue, refusing to retract a statement describing the girl’s actions as “terroristic”.

As we reported last week, the incident occurred on January 10th, when the girl, whose identity is being protected, declared she was going to shoot other children, and then herself with a pink toy gun that fires bubbles composed of a harmless soap solution.

School officials reportedly categorized the incident as a “terroristic threat,” and labeled the girl’s actions a “threat to harm others.”

Superintendent Bernard Stellar of Mount Carmel school at first suspended the girl for ten days, before reducing the punishment to two days. All this came after an interrogation that lasted several hours, at which the girl’s parents were not present, according to their lawyer, Robin Ficker.

This week, Ficker has told local reporters that the school has refused to budge on the issue.

“I don’t understand why the school district doesn’t put this all behind them,” Ficker said. “Admit you made a mistake, apologize to the family and expunge these labels from her record. Do they really still think she’s a threat to others? Their own psychologist said she isn’t.”

Ficker says that the offending “threat” that was overheard by an adult was something along the lines of ”I’m gonna shoot you, you can shoot me and we can all play together.”

The Superintendent also released a statement on the ongoing affair, which read:

“The Mount Carmel Area School District has been criticized for the handling of an incident that occurred recently. Although by law we cannot officially comment on the specifics of the incident involving the students, we are confident that much of the information supplied to the media may not be consistent with the facts in this matter. The Mount Carmel Area School District has investigated the issue and will continue to do so.”

“When given the opportunity in the appropriate forum, we look forward to presenting information that will portray our school district in a more positive light.” the Superintendent’s statement also read, adding that the school values “the intellectual, social, emotional, and physical wellbeing of each child.”

Robin Ficker said that the school district is “stonewalling” on the facts.

“Are they really trying to argue that this little 5-year-old girl understood the implications of the words she was saying? Look, the bottom line is they are in error and they need to admit it.”

Ficker will meet with the district’s legal advisor on January 30th.

“I’m looking for nothing less than a complete expunging of all this from that girl’s permanent school records,” he said. “She has been branded a troubled person. But she was suspended for the words she was saying. She had no gun. She had a bubble-making machine.”

As we have noted, this is far from an isolated incident, and represents one of many knee jerk reactions in the wake of the recent shootings that have been subject to a mass media frenzy.

This week, a South Philadelphia elementary student was searched in front of classmates and threatened with arrest after she mistakenly brought a “paper gun” to school.

Earlier this month a 6-year-old boy was suspended from his elementary school in Maryland for making a gun gesture with his hand and saying “pow”.

Days later another two 6-year-olds in Maryland were suspended for pointing their fingers into gun shapes while playing “cops and robbers” with each other.

In Oklahoma, a five-year-old boy was also recently suspended for making a gun gesture with his hand.

A 13-year-old Middle School seventh grade student in Pennsylvania was also suspended for the same hand gesture.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:13 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Glad to see so many 'commonsense' actions to protect our schools.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:44 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
*Bangs head on desk*

This is utterly ridiculous. She's 5 and they interrogated her. Way to frighten the child.
The school doesn't want to believe its own pshycologist. Well, then he must be in on it with the child.

Does anyone else hear the music from Twilight Zone, besides me?

The object of the game is to manufacture future domestic terrorists.

But the Obama employees who did this -- Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder -- aren't even asked about it as they testilie in Congress this week about killing an ambassador and giving 15,000 rockets to Al Qaeda:

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:19 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by PIRATENEWS:
Superintendent Bernard Stellar of Mount Carmel school at first suspended the girl for ten days, before reducing the punishment to two days. All this came after an interrogation that lasted several hours, at which the girl’s parents were not present, according to their lawyer, Robin Ficker.

I'd have his ass arrested for that.

Watch how fast the bastards back down now though, and consider how many other cases like this never make the media, and people wonder why I have issues with the way we treat kids...

I know one thing for sure, imma get me one of them damn bubble-guns, and I MIGHT just get snarky enough to carry the thing on duty... oh who am I fooling, you know damn well imma do that.

-F

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Friday, January 25, 2013 2:00 PM

JONGSSTRAW

After Waco Janet Reno bought a new pick-up truck. Still couldn't get a date though.

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Friday, January 25, 2013 7:31 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I remember Wacko and I seem to recall there was a lot of outrage over what happened.

>>Manufactoring future terrorists<<

Now you are just being absurd PN.

I am not so sure he is - the mistreatment by society many youth experience does tend to put them on adversarial paths, which wind up self-reinforcing as the society they struggle against lashes back out at them.
It took near a decade for me to see past that destructive cycle, some kids never do, others destroy themselves trying to fit impossible molds, or via abuse of drugs, and so forth and so on.... but that such mistreatment has a longterm dangerous effect is worth a second thought, not just here in our own country but abroad too, since every person we kill via "collateral damage" likely had relatives who'll hold a grudge, or kids who grow up hating us.

We do create them, and our alphabet boys all too often enable them.

-F

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Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:18 AM

FREMDFIRMA

No worries, Brenda - it's sort of a pet peeve with me how our society doesn't acknowledge the consequences of mistreating kids.

And nowadays, there seems to be a rise in certain kinds of abuse, or rather awareness of it, due to a combination of factors, the first being a greater tolerance and acceptance of the use of violence or even outright torture, a rot coming from the top down you might say...
But that would have been less noticeable save for the factor of the Hellcamps being prettymuch crushed.

See, in regards to that our legal system didn't much CARE if you worked a kid to death, waterboarded them, zapped them with electroshock, drugged them into a stupor, or locked them in a closet for days at a time, so long as you hired it out, right ?
And mind you, most of the techniques used on so-called suspects at Gitmo and elsewhere were first tried out on youth, and then eventually applied to adults and only THEN was there outrage, just as "Zero Tolerance" didn't meet so much resistance till it became the norm for airport security.
As a rule, whenever the establishment wants to try some new abuse, they'll inflict it on kids first due to their less-than-pets legal/social status, and IF they get away with it, they WILL then use it on us - so there's a canary in the coal mine factor to youth rights as well.

But when it's no longer an option to hire it out, parents have taken to engaging in that behavior themselves - which isn't so very excuseable anymore, and thanks be for that!

I am not gonna cite the specifics unless asked, but reports of parents forcing their child to run to death over a candy bar(1), waterboarding their kid for bad grades and acting out(2), using a stungun on them for same(3), locking them in closets(4), or even downright flogging them(5) are not nearly as uncommon as they should be, and you know what the end result of that *IS* ?

THIS

Most kids never get beyond that, winding up in a spiral of self-abuse and self-destruction.
For mine own reasons I just kept taking the "revenge" to higher levels, unsatisfied with mere retaliation, I wanted to crush the ABILITY to mistreat kids in that fashion.
Somehow this eventually transmogrified into a positive, youth-rights advocacy, but the initial drive was a desire to drown my hurts in the blood of those who caused them.
So I know it from that perspective as well.

-Frem

(1) Forced Death Marches were a Hellcamp staple.
(2) Generally a WWASPS thing, along with tying them down in four points to bake in the desert sun.
(3) Rotenburg was far from the only place that happened.
(4) Mostly CEDU's baliwick, see also: Over the GW.
(5) Usually the more religious places.

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