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[xatalantax]

from the "Zero-Tolerance Watch" page whose url I forget right now ..
'Three boys at Bemiss Elementary School in Spokane, Wash., have been suspended for bringing "toy guns" to school, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reports. Now at first glance this may not seem wholly unreasonable--after all, children have been shot by policemen who mistook toy guns for the real thing. But there wasn't much danger of that happening in this case. Terry Wilson-Spence, whose eight-year-old son was among the suspended students, tells the paper that "the toy guns her son carried in his pocket were for GI Joe action figures. The guns are from only 1 inch to 3 inches long--half the size of a pencil."'

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[cosinezero.livejournal.com]

Remember when you were a kid in elementary school and they taught you we lived in a somehow different country from the rest of the world, one that prided itself on freedom and justice for all...

I wonder if these younger generations are growing up with the same naivete that we did. ugh.

[iscari0t.livejournal.com]

hey, man, what with moore's law, they could be really tiny tazers or something...


-special-

[sbazzy.livejournal.com]

only in spokane. i promise you, it's a very, very special place.