Comment Re:Sounds about right (Score 1) 652
First of all, the standard for threats, as interpreted by the Supreme Court during the Vietnam era, permits one to say that if one is drafted, the first person one will shoot with ones newly issued rifle is the President of the United States. Such a comment is clearly political speech, and carries with it no actual threat to the President.
By such a standard, there was no risk at all of criminal prosecution for the icon, and the sheriff's department did the correct thing in declaring that no crime had been committed.
Which brings us to the school. Schools think they can do anything to students without consequences. They keep pushing the envelope in terms of claiming jurisdiction over students 24 hours a day, in their homes, in their communities, on their Web logs, and anywhere else they can get away with it. Schools are making themselves into an unelected ersatz government over everyone under 18 in this country, in all aspects of their lives, and are using the post-Columbine mentality of the country to get away with it. Courts won't interfere, because they don't want to be bothered with kids' issues, and they don't want to waste court time in quibbles over things that happen at school.
What if this icon had said that the teacher was a idiot, and his feelings were hurt. Nothing prevents a school system that claims jurisdiction over the speech of students in their homes from suspending him for a semester over that either.
By such a standard, there was no risk at all of criminal prosecution for the icon, and the sheriff's department did the correct thing in declaring that no crime had been committed.
Which brings us to the school. Schools think they can do anything to students without consequences. They keep pushing the envelope in terms of claiming jurisdiction over students 24 hours a day, in their homes, in their communities, on their Web logs, and anywhere else they can get away with it. Schools are making themselves into an unelected ersatz government over everyone under 18 in this country, in all aspects of their lives, and are using the post-Columbine mentality of the country to get away with it. Courts won't interfere, because they don't want to be bothered with kids' issues, and they don't want to waste court time in quibbles over things that happen at school.
What if this icon had said that the teacher was a idiot, and his feelings were hurt. Nothing prevents a school system that claims jurisdiction over the speech of students in their homes from suspending him for a semester over that either.
