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'This Is Going to Ruin My Entire Life': 18-Year-Old Aspiring Firefighter Charged With Felony
heritage ^ | march 22, 2014 | evan bernick

Posted on 03/22/2014 8:22:15 AM PDT by lowbridge

Eighteen year-old Jordan Wiser is training to be a firefighter. He’s a certified emergency vehicle operator who works as a first responder when he’s not attending high school. And, after just spending 13 days in jail, he’s now facing felony charges for weapons possession.

The weapon? A pocketknife. It was in his EMT vest, and he uses it to cut through seatbelts when he’s practicing saving lives.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: ohio; zerotolerance
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To: lowbridge

It seems like whenever this happens, the “offender” is not some gangbanger or someone with a skeevy violent past.

This young man has expressed a desire to serve in public life, I read that in another thread about him, and he’s concerned that a felony rap will halt that career. Others caught in this have been Eagle Scouts.

Here’s where I go out on a limb- what if the left is using its “get out the vote” and fundraising databases (Google’s Civitas comes to mind) to do a little predictive modeling and see which kids might someday run for office. They then help the careers of lefties and squash the career of conservatives, by using the “bullying” laws and “zero tolerance” policies. You don’t even need a predictive computer model, a lefty principal and school board can do it on their own, but the Big Data tools are there.

Odd that the kids taken down in this way are never president of a GSA or work for a lefty advocacy group.


41 posted on 03/22/2014 9:21:11 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: luvbach1

I had a pure silver bodied Cross pen with my initials on it confiscated by airport security. I asked the biitch what she was gonna with it since she probably couldn’t read or write. Spent two and and half hours being interrogated where I gave the bulls all kinds of crap about how ignorant, stupid and wrong they were. Asked a supervisor to arrest one of the bulls because he had a pen in his pocket.


42 posted on 03/22/2014 9:21:17 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: lowbridge
The GAME MUST continue... until it's DONE..
UNless the elite political class is pulled down...
click for VIDEO--


43 posted on 03/22/2014 9:22:27 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: lowbridge

A charge is a long way from conviction. That said, and I never thought I would say this, I am beginning to detest cops.


44 posted on 03/22/2014 9:24:38 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here.)
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To: DBrow; lowbridge

Good theory you have there — preemptive data mining on future ‘troublemakers.”


45 posted on 03/22/2014 9:25:32 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: Safetgiver

Did you get your pen back? Cross makes very nice pens.


46 posted on 03/22/2014 9:26:53 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: MeshugeMikey

Zero tolerance is often, OFTEN, promoted right here in one thread or another. Depending on who is saying it for what reason, it is someone’s Purina Dumbass Chow.

It is the sedentary imbecile’s way to feel tough and engaged.


47 posted on 03/22/2014 9:26:55 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here.)
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To: centurion316

I think the whole point is to turn us into criminals. Once we’re all convicted criminals, we’re slaves of the state.


48 posted on 03/22/2014 9:27:10 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: cherry

Have you not sent your whitewashed jackass to the knacker’s yet?


49 posted on 03/22/2014 9:28:07 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I think you are correct. For all the bleating about freedom in America, we are rapidly losing the practical exercise of them, and after the SCOTUS upheld ACA we are in classic political science terms a totalitarian state.


50 posted on 03/22/2014 9:33:05 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here.)
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To: Psalm 144

Post #18 beat us to the punch. It’s a quote from Ayn Rand (who I find impossible to read - my loss) and it says exactly what we think.


51 posted on 03/22/2014 9:34:53 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: lowbridge

This nation has seen its day .. now it must witness it own demise at the hands of idiots.


52 posted on 03/22/2014 9:36:56 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: miss marmelstein

It does. She understood the abusive state and the malice of mediocrities very well. I bought my kid a copy of Anthem not long ago.


53 posted on 03/22/2014 9:38:18 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here.)
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To: Safetgiver

I had a Cross pen confiscated right after 9/11, too. Still mad. Mine was at a concert, but it was a 20 minute walk through a tough neighborhood in the cold to the car.


54 posted on 03/22/2014 9:41:59 AM PDT by conservative cat
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To: precisionshootist
I'll be willing to listen, but if the young man didn't threaten anyone with his multi-tool Swiss Army Knife, then all that's happened is they've found a wee little pocketknife in his belongings on school grounds.

'Intent' better be part of this story you're wondering we haven't heard everything about. Please ping me to any thread where we learn of violent intent.

(As far as need for equipment, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of armed police have never shot anyone with their sidearm. I do know a paramedic who had to use his knife to cut a child's plastic car seat away from a toddler after a bad vehicle accident where the fire dept had to use 'Jaws of Life' spreader to open up the car enough so he could crawl in and rescue the child.)

55 posted on 03/22/2014 9:47:12 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: shalom aleichem

This is Ohio not texas.


56 posted on 03/22/2014 9:49:32 AM PDT by securityman
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To: Psalm 144

A true visionary. Sad for us, though.

I preferred the bad old days in NYC when I saw a man parade through the Criterion movie theatre in Times Square with a machete and nobody in the audience blinked. It seemed awfully dangerous at the time but, somehow, I now prefer it to these zero-tolerance days...


57 posted on 03/22/2014 9:49:41 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: cherry

Oh.....
I see you are one of THOSE.....

those that still think fubo and mcromney are different.....

well, answer me this, pal...

what has fubo done as president that mcromney did not do as governor?????

You are not a conservative, you, SIR, are a goddamn dyed in the wool hard core republican....

ago to rino’s are us .com and post your vile crap there.....

chump....


58 posted on 03/22/2014 9:52:03 AM PDT by joe fonebone (a socialist is just a juvenile communist)
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To: lowbridge

The ghost of Columbine strikes again. When I first moved up here to the PNW I remember driving past a rural high school and the kids were pulling out their .22 rifles and go shooting in the forest across the street from the school. They had set up a target range. This wasn’t that long ago. About 15 years now. Now, they’re fellons for having pocket knives and making gun shaped pop-tarts. Unreal.


59 posted on 03/22/2014 9:57:14 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

” Now, they’re fellons for having pocket knives and making gun shaped pop-tarts. Unreal.

And when they are 18, they will use the decade of brainwashing in school to go vote, which is the point of all this silliness.


60 posted on 03/22/2014 10:07:22 AM PDT by DBrow
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