dudeistlibertarian:

thinksquad:

More and more children being arrested for trivial things…

#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.

#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.

#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.

#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.

#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.

#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.

#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.

#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.

#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school. It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples. So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this? The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.

#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.

#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.

#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.

#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.

#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police. The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….

“Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old”.

#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor and tasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.

#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom. The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.

#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.

#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.

#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.

HERE ARE THE LINKS FOR THOSE WHO FEEL THIS PAGE MADE ALL THIS UP:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/texas-student-sarah-bustamantes-12-arrested-for-spraying-perfume/13250/

http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=15077292

Check out this video on YouTube:http://youtu.be/wk2b_twCCdw

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/11/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with/

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29/nc-high-school-senior-suspended-charged-possesion-small-knife-lunchbox/#

http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html

http://m.tauntongazette.com/wkdTGazette/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Mateo-pays-family-of-boy-pepper-sprayed-by-cop-2384518.php

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cops-called-for-school-kiss-657831

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/02/charlton-library-sends-police-to-collect-overdue-books-from-5-year-old/

And we file this along with the other numerous reasons on why my children will never attend a public school and why they will be home schooled.

And in other news…. Kids in LA can tell their teachers to fuck off and instead of getting suspended?  They do something called restorative punishment where the teacher and student talk about their feelings…. wow.

goprightstuff:

i love love love this quote.

dudeistlibertarian:

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heroinfriday:

falserapeculture:

Feminist organises a Take Back The Night rally to highlight rape culture after receiving a rape threat… with a plot twist.

Meg Lanker-Simons (Her tumblr here) received a threat of rape on a facebook page for her university. She then quickly organised an event to highlight rape culture. Police then discover she posted the threats… to herself. 

Link to the story as it develops.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHA REALLY YOU’RE THAT DESPERATE WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST HAVE THE FUCKING PROTEST HAHAHAHAHA!

-Liv

Oh good god

really

to herself

I can’t facepalm any harder. Her url is pretty apt I’d say. From wiki:

Cognitive dissonance theory explains human behavior by positing that people have a bias to seek consonance between their expectations and reality. [snip] This bias sheds light on otherwise puzzling, irrational, and even destructive behavior. [x]

She hates rape culture so much, so she manufactured an example of its manifestation JUST so she could protest it. Yet this makes the threat of rape just a means to the end for her, and makes it less likely for anyone to take such threats seriously. Unbelievable.

Hey, as an ex feminist who was deep into the social justice culture and knew a lot of the people very intimately within it… I will admit I did similar things and feel like shit for it, and many many others have admitted to sending death threats, rape threats, etc to themselves online. Regardless of whether or not SHE did it, it does happen at an alarming rate to drudge up support.

I’m not proud of the things I did in my activist past, but I’d like to use it to bring to light the horrible human beings that are taking over this country. This woman probably did post the threat herself. There is very little doubt in my mind. I hope this is the first of many such cases being brought to light.

I honestly have no response.

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. Who the hell sends fake threats to themselves online? Shameful and immoral activity.

I like the person who said this does great harm to those who actually suffer from rape.  The more people do crappy things like this, the less likely the public is to take rape charges seriously. 

I remember when the Ohio case was decided and those boys, who raped a girl and it was on video, basically got slapped on the hand.  I wondered if the decisions made in that case were a reflection of the highly publicized Duke Lacrosse Rape case…where the lives of boys were ruined over a completely false rape claim.  

Rape is HORRID.  There is never an excuse for someone to force someone else into sexual behaviors of any kind.  Rape should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.  It sickens me when someone pulls a stunt like this, because it ends up hurting the true survivors, not helping them.