It may be that the loss of your freedoms might lead to more than strip searching your children. It is now being exploited to justify a grab of your weapons.
So your children and your gun rack get stripped.
Posted on 04/20/2009 3:08:13 AM PDT by BykrBayb
The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
The justices in January accepted the Safford school district case for review, and will decide whether a campus setting gives school administrators greater discretion to control students suspected of illegal activity than police are allowed in cases involving adults in general public spaces.
The case is centered around Savana Redding, now 19, who in 2003 was an eighth-grade honors student at Safford Middle School, about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona. Redding was strip-searched by school officials after a fellow student accused her of providing prescription-strength ibuprofen pills.
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Redding was pulled from class by a male vice principal, escorted to an office, where she denied the accusations.
A search of Redding's backpack found nothing. Then, although she never had prior disciplinary problems, a strip search was conducted with the help of a school nurse and Wilson's assistant, both females. According to court records, she was ordered to strip to her underwear and her bra was pulled out. Again, no drugs were found.
In an affidavit, Redding said, "The strip search was the most humiliating experience I have ever had. I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry."
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"War On Drugs" = the loss of your freedom.
It may be that the loss of your freedoms might lead to more than strip searching your children. It is now being exploited to justify a grab of your weapons.
So your children and your gun rack get stripped.
You dismiss this like they weren't after something important. This was, after all, a major drug case - ibuprofen.
Her record certainly adds to the situation, but I fail to see how it could be okay to sexually assault a 13 year old child, even if they thought she was guilty of a crime. Can you imagine your employer doing this to you?
Maybe the Supreme Court will put “common” back into sense!
I heard that... wait, what?
OMG, the ibuprofen scourge must be stopped, we need to cancel the "War On Drugs" and start the "War On Freedom" to keep the silly people from harming themselves.... uh never mind... I guess that one started quite a few years ago.
The "War on Drugs" IS a war on your freedoms!
I am not a bit anti-war on drug person, but strip searching young girls crosses the line and for ibuprofen makes it ridiculous.
Had she been my daughter, the school officials would have seen an extremist in action, up close and personal.
Agreee the strip-searched by school officials sounds more like the OFFICIALS have a thing for kids.
“Being that she was a student with no prior trouble they should have known better.”
Her being a student with or without prior trouble has no bearing in my opinion.
The school should not be strip searching. They should also not be punishing children for ibuprofen just as if it were cocaine.
Exactly right.
This kind of abuse happens because most people are too timid to stand up for themselves and their families.
Amen. A father has to be ready and willing to protect his own.
People are losing their freedoms day by day, and most do not even know it. It is like a frog slowly getting boiled ...if you do it slowly enough it will work seamlessly. Even FReepers are caught in this slow-boil too ...
....case in point: The video about the girl who was getting beaten up by some cop in a police station holding area, simply because she had kicked off her shoe in his direction. While most FReepers (correctly) noted that there was NO EXCUSE for a cop to beat up a teen girl because she kicked off a shoe, there were A NUMBER who gave excuses (e.g. it was wrong what she did / maybe the cop was ticked off / maybe it hit him etc). All sorts of rationalizations.
Don't get me started on the other case of a traveller getting detained because he had several thousand Dollars on his person. If one does not want to answer, and does not HAVE to answer, then one can decide not to answer. Even if he has nothing to hide. Oh, and while we are on having 'nothing to hide,' when the patriot act first came out there was so much support, simply because a person on our side had proposed it. Well, power changes sides during elections, and if Obama really is the dictator in waiting some claim he is, some of those 'not-a-problem-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide' edicts can have a mean bite!
I would not be surprised if someone defends this stripping of the 13 year old ...although maybe it is not a cop who did it will probably make them not come to its defence, but I am almost certain if it was a cop then some excuse would have been fronted by some.
Perhaps, but I'm not optimistic. The Rehnquist and Roberts Courts have not been terribly kind to students' civil rights, and in about 75% of the cases taken by the Supreme Court, the lower court is reversed.
This type of stuff is unquestionably out of control, but parents have demanded it through things like zero tolenance policies. Zero tolerance means zero tolerance, so you get things like this.
It is the zero tolerence crap again...take away all common sense and this is what you get
Idiots.
Bullcrap.
And the drug suspected- ibuprofen. She was an honors student; so why did her perents have her in Government School in the first place? That is pretty close to child abuse.
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