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dblaney
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Fascists
#5002779 - 12/01/05 02:42 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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HARTFORD, Conn.~Dec 1, 2005 ~Bad words are costing Hartford Public and Bulkeley high schoolers $103 each. Police officers assigned to the schools have fined about two dozen students for cursing in a new program to curtail unruly behavior. The joint effort by school and police officials targets students who swear while defying teachers and administrators. "We're sending a message to the parents and to the teachers," said Sandy Cruz-Serrano, senior adviser to Superintendent of Schools Robert Henry. "We are trying to bring back order to the schools." Parents are required to pay the fines if the students cannot. "Our heads are spinning with that," said Sam Saylor, president of the district Parent Teacher Organization. "The kids are really indecent with their swearing and they're swearing at teachers. This is their way of curtailing it making the parents pay." Keila Ayala, 17, a Hartford Public sophomore, said she was ticketed for shouting an expletive in an officer's face while handcuffed for taking a swing at him. "It'll stop me from swearing," she said. "Well, it won't stop me from swearing, but I won't cuss at the teachers." George Sugai, who teaches school discipline at UConn's Neag School of Education, is skeptical of the effort. "Research says that punishing kids doesn't teach them the right way to act," he said. But Hartford Police Officer Roger Pearl said the program is working. "Before, the kids were swearing all the time. It went from many incidents to almost nothing," he said. "It's quiet in the halls."
- http://www.courant.com
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Koala Koolio
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Re: Fascists [Re: dblaney]
#5002804 - 12/01/05 02:48 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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*Fucking Fascists
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Re: Fascists [Re: dblaney]
#5002820 - 12/01/05 02:51 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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That's crazy shit! Sounds like just another way to increase revenue to me. They should call it the Swearing Tax.
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TheDude
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Re: Fascists [Re: dblaney]
#5002821 - 12/01/05 02:51 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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FUCK THAT SHIT WITH A RAGING WHALE BONER.
The article makes it sound like cursing is more serious than taking a swing at an officer. WTF?
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Re: Fascists [Re: TheDude]
#5002917 - 12/01/05 03:16 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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what was that thing we had,,,, freedom of somthing... oh shit, the cops are comming i gotta RUN!
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TheDude
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Re: Fascists [Re: ZippoZ]
#5002933 - 12/01/05 03:19 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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All that's left is the right to remain silent.
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Lakefingers

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Re: Fascists [Re: TheDude]
#5030882 - 12/07/05 08:55 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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problem is that exercizing that right is suspicious
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Shroomism
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we have rights?
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Lakefingers

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i guess rights and justice are separate. rights are doing whatever you want despite the circumstances, justice is getting away with it.
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Re: Fascists [Re: dblaney]
#5032479 - 12/08/05 02:24 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some kid is going to win a bunch of cash when him and his friends all cuss a few times and then start a class action law suit.
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dblaney
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we have rights?
"Rights" sounds vaguely familiar...I think we might have had some years and years ago.
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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Konnrade
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Re: Fascists [Re: dblaney]
#5032751 - 12/08/05 04:19 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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pop quiz. Name one connection between the freedom of information act and Rage Against the Machine.
First correct answer wins a link to furry scat porn.
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Shroomism
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Re: Fascists [Re: Konnrade]
#5032757 - 12/08/05 04:20 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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the fucking bulls are on parade
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Re: Fascists [Re: dblaney]
#5033100 - 12/08/05 07:54 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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wtf? that's such bullshit!
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Re: Fascists [Re: dblaney]
#5033122 - 12/08/05 08:07 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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I thought this was bullshit - can't believe it checks out.
I see a lot in America that scares me.
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