At Patton Middle School in McMinnville, Ore., students created something called "slap butt day." On one such day in February, according to the Oregonian (July 22, 2007): "Two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran – what some kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them."
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"After hours of interviews with students," the Oregonian continues, "the day of the February incident, the officer read the boys their Miranda rights and hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next five days."
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And it gets worse. The seventh-graders were not permitted contact with their parents for 24 hours, they were brought into court in shackles and jail garb, and they were strip-searched four times.
Clearly, their civil rights have been violated. I hope the ACLU helps them. Or maybe the ACLU is too busy going after Christians for being Christian to come to the aid of young people who have their civil rights grossly violated by the state apparatus?
They were falsely charged with a serious felony and were made to feel like sex offenders, but the charge was withdrawn and they were charged with mere "sexual harassment" instead. And the girls whose bums were patted didn't really have a problem with it, they said, and said they were
pressured into complaining.
Oh, my... we see the dark forces of fascist political correctness of the ultra-extreme progressive liberal left are still at work in America. The moonbats are goose-stepping around, everywhere, all the time, looking for opportunities to take away peoples' rights in the name of the supremacistic ideology of political correctness.
If these students were, say, homosexuals or Muslims, then all hell would break loose following reports of their civil rights being so grossly violated. But as the students are just regular, ordinary boys, to hell with them, says the progressive left...
I guess it's bad to treat Gitmo prisoners like dangerous people, but it's appropriate to treat boys, for simply being boys, as if they were Al Qaeda terrorists ...
