A Dissenting Student Hounded For His Views

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 12-30-03 | Valerie Richardson

[johnny7]

Tim Bueler recently received some unusual advice: His principal and a campus police officer suggested that he stay home from his California high school for a few days.

They feared for his safety because Tim, the founder of Rancho Cotate High School's new Conservative Club, said he had received threats from other students after writing an article for the club newsletter calling for a crackdown on illegal immigration. The 17-year-old junior says that stance inspired threats from which teachers have refused to protect him. Some faculty members even started a public campaign against his group, which seeks to promote "the pillars of the Bible, patriotism and conservative beliefs as balance to the mostly liberal viewpoints of teachers," according to its newsletter, "The Conservative Agenda."

[johnny7]

No 1st Ammendment rights for you... white boy! Go home... think about your crimes to the state!

[eastforker]

I think Ferris changed his first name.

[Vigilanteman]

Yes, Tim, there is a state church.

[Woahhs]

Also the reason liberals don't want you to have 2nd Ammendment rights either. Without equal protection for this young man, the situation could spiral out of control VERY quickly.

[Prodigal Son]

Abolish public schools. It would immediately eliminate most of these types of problems.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Maybe he'll put this in his news letter and get banned from publick skewl.


Wake Up

I’d like to take a moment,
I need to bend your ear.
We need to fix a broken thing,
The time to do so’s here.
America the melting pot,
It’s how we got this far.
But many want to change that now,
By lowering the bar.
No need to learn our history,
Or learn what we’re about.
Just speak your native language,
Complain we leave you out.
You have no right to be here now,
Feeding off this nation.
We need to stop the influx of,
Illegal immigration.

Conspiracy Guy 10/20/03

[Conspiracy Guy]

Or this one will get his descendants banned too!

Stop

America is sliding fast,
It’s time for us to save her.
We’re letting people from outside,
Cripple and enslave her.
Illegals from a thousand lands,
Just walk across our borders.
It’s time to say, “We’ve had Enough”,
And issue our new orders.
Stop the waste and give aways,
To those who have no right.
To be here in the first place,
This problem we must fight.
I’m sure you know we have no choice,
Our Government is lame.
Republicans and Democrats,
Have now become the same.
So what I ask from each of you,
Get up out of that chair.
Write or call your public servants,
Your vote put them there.
Demand they act and act today,
To save our land, our nation.
It has to stop and stop today,
Illegal Immigration.

Conspiracy Guy 10/29/03

[arthurus]

It badly needs to be proofread.Grammar and spelling errors abound.

[Labyrinthos]

No 1st Ammendment rights for you... white boy! Go home... think about your crimes to the state!

This is not a 1st Amendment issue because he, in fact, published the newsletter, and therefore the school has not deprived him of a 1st Amendment right. What this case is about is Equal Potection of the laws under the 5th and 14th Amendmends in that the school and its agents are depriving this boy of equal educational oppurtunities soley because of his political beliefs. I know most of you hate lawyers, but with the right one, I can smell big bucks under 42 USCS 1983.

[.45MAN]

The names of the teachers and the name of the school need to be made public. These reachers names need to be publicized in as many places as possible..

[Savage Beast]

The faculty seems like Ferris's principal. Do you suppose they could be brothers? But how does Ben Stein fit into this scenario?

[StonyBurk]

AH but Eye am post grad u ate of post modern American
edication. It's the eyedeas that count not those niggling
little details like spelling or grammaw.

[wbill]

I think that this kid is great. Gives me hope for the future. Sure, he deserves equal protection, but if he can't stand the heat, he should've stayed out of the kitchen. The establishment doesn't like it when people stand up for themselves and announce that the emperor is naked. Even better, it looks like he's taken the lesson to heart and didn't allow himself to be silenced.

Forty school staff members signed a letter to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat calling on the Conservative Club to back up its accusations that students are being indoctrinated. "They've made all these sweeping statements about liberal teachers warping the curriculum, but as a science teacher, I'd like to see some evidence," said Mr. Alton, who co-authored the letter

Even better.....an invitation to debate. I hope that he picks up the gauntlet. I haven't seen too many liberal positions that can stand up to logic and/or close scrutiny.

[ClintonBeGone]

Mark Alton, the punk teacher, needs to be outted.

[arthurus]

FFor some folks, I suppose. I cannot read a piece of more than a few lines if it has too many errors because my mind must stop and correct the problems. And many errors actually change the meaning of a sentence, sometimes pretty radically. If one is paying attention to the article and what it actually proposes rather than just skimming it for a general impression then these errors destroy the usefulness of the article.

[arthurus]

Misspellings and bad grammar in informal comments are bad enough. In a published piece they are insufferable.

[aliquis]

[quote]FFor some folks, I suppose. I cannot read a piece of more than a few lines if it has too many errors because my mind must stop and correct the problems. And many errors actually change the meaning of a sentence, sometimes pretty radically. If one is paying attention to the article and what it actually proposes rather than just skimming it for a general impression then these errors destroy the usefulness of the article.[/quote]

It is better to have a poor form than no content ;)

[StonyBurk]

"The law dictated by God himself is, of course,superior in obligation to any other.It is binding over all the globe,in all countries,and at all times.No human laws are of any
validity contrary to this." Alexander Hamilton,Feb.23,1775
Quoting Wm Blackstone- Commentaries on the Laws of England,
1771 Vol.1 p.41 Similar instruction on the source of our laws can be found in James Wilsons' -Lectures on American Law -College of Philadelphia,1791.I stand on the record.

[CyberAnt]

The teachers don't care about illegal immigration .. it's dollars to the school for every student who attends.

This kid is challenging their funds .. people will get hostile.

[SteveH]

"What this case is about is Equal Potection of the laws under the 5th and 14th Amendmends in that the school and its agents are depriving this boy of equal educational oppurtunities soley because of his political beliefs. I know most of you hate lawyers, but with the right one, I can smell big bucks under 42 USCS 1983."

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1983.html

TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 21 > SUBCHAPTER I > Sec. 1983.

Sec. 1983. - Civil action for deprivation of rights

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.