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But note he had to give up his right to sue their butts for the false arrest. This crap will only stop after there are enough law suits against police personally and their employers and the schools themselves that result in substantial damage awards. Everyone who pursued this kid should be fired.
This is typical of tyranny.
Arrest people, then let just enough go that there will not be a huge groundswell of opposition.
The end result is that most subjects are afraid to speak out lest they be targeted, it is simply better to go around meekly and hope to escapee notice.
Pretty soon you have whittled outspoken opponent numbers down to a point where it is easy to round them all up.
I'm sure glad the ACLU was there to help him.
Oh, wait a minute, they only help kids when the t-shirt has a different message:
"In 2004, a 13-year-old Vermont boy named Zachary Guiles wore an anti-George Bush T-shirt to school. It depicted Bush doing drugs. Guiles was ordered to cover parts of the shirt, and in fighting the school he became a national "First Amendment poster boy." The ACLU represented him, and the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court."
"Marcum has had no such luck with the institutions of the American left."
Anonymous coward wrote:
I'm sure glad the ACLU was there to help him.
Did he phone the state ACLU affiliate? The ACLU tends to not get involved unless contacted. Cases are screened first by staff--to filter out people who don't understand what the ACLU does calling with gripes about private parties--and then by a panel of lawyers (sometimes with a few non-lawyers in the mix).
In AZ, when I was involved with AzCLU/ACLU-AZ (but not on the legal panel), we took a couple of cases from public university who were penalized for putting George W Bush signs in their dorm windows.
There are a few good reasons to not join the ACLU--their (wasting of resources) opposing school choice programs that don't come anywhere near the Establishment Clause and (regardless) don't violate anyone's individual liberty is one, and more shameful still, they now are effectively fighting to narrow Free Exercise provisions to freedom of worship.
But unless you know that Marcum called his state chapter and was turned down, "they didn't help Marcum" is something you--or the hicktown editorial board you copied and pasted from--just made up. They don't substantiate it and neither do you.
Sometimes I think that there is a measure of sanity still left in this country. Then I think how the boy ended up in that situation in the first place means a lack of common sense and wonder what would have happened if the judge had been a liberal with anti-gun views. The kid would be in juvenile detention right now. To much hinges on judges these days. Still, its nice to see justice prevail, and the family seeing that, not sue the city.