Child Strip Search Bill/WTF

[ls317]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/2/133711/534

House Approves Strip Search Bill
A bill approved by the U.S. House yesterday would require school districts around the country to establish policies making it easier for teachers and school officials to conduct wide scale searches of students. These searches could take the form of pat-downs, bag searches, or strip searches depending on how administrators interpret the law.

The Student Teacher Safety Act of 2006 (HR 5295) would require any school receiving federal funding--essentially every public school--to adopt policies allowing teachers and school officials to conduct random, warrantless searches of every student, at any time, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Saying they suspect that one student might have drugs could give officials the authority to search every student in the building.

[MADem]

1. Was Mark Foley a cosponsor???

:rofl:

[ls317]

2. Damn

Who in the hell snuck this bullshit thru??? Unfreaking real...

[QuestionAll...]

7. sorry MADem.

but I am way past laughing about this shit.

just saying, you handle how you have to. I can appreciate that.

[MADem]

12. Call your senators then....it's only passed in the House NT

[Phredicles]

3. Hey, if it involves getting grubby paws on kids' private areas,

Republicans are ALL OVER IT!

[ls317]

11. Thinking gonna have to have the talk earlier than planned with my kid..

He is only 6 !

[AndyTiedye]

4. But Surely You'd Trust School Officials to Look at Your Kids Naked…

…as much as you'd trust your priest or your Congressman to do so.

[RC]

5. Paranoia anyone?

The further right you go, the sicker they get.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Great. If it keeps one kid from smoking a joint, sure- let 'em be fondled

and fucking scarred for life.

[ck4829]

8. We know what Foley's next career move is going to be now.

[Rocknrule]

9. God, the Repubs are so horny for naked kids its almost sad

[ls317]

14. Here are the sponors of this piece of shit

Rep Biggert, Judy - 9/19/2006
Rep Boustany, Charles W., Jr. - 9/12/2006
Rep Carter, John R. - 9/19/2006
Rep English, Phil - 9/19/2006
Rep Fitzpatrick, Michael G. - 9/12/2006
Rep Gerlach, Jim - 9/13/2006
Rep Kelly, Sue W. - 9/12/2006
Rep Kennedy, Mark R. - 9/19/2006
Rep Kirk, Mark Steven - 5/4/2006
Rep Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. - 5/4/2006
Rep Lewis, Ron - 9/12/2006
Rep Porter, Jon C. - 9/14/2006
Rep Shays, Christopher - 9/14/2006
Rep Shimkus, John - 9/13/2006
Rep Shuster, Bill - 9/19/2006
Rep Souder, Mark E. - 9/19/2006
Rep Weldon, Curt - 9/14/2006

[spuddonna]

10. I think my head is going to explode...

These people make me sick...

[kerry-is-my-prez]

13. approved by the House YESTERDAY??? Do these people have no sense?

You really have to seriously question their judgement.

[Rocknrule]

15. Our government has been taken over by NAMBLA

[OhioChick]

16. Strip Searches?? (on kids??)

:wtf:

[pooja]

17. Schools have always been on the side of totalitary dictatorship.

There are locker searches, car searches, back-pack rules, security gaurds, etc. It doesn't surprise me to search the "persons" for suspicious contraband. I know in my small school in vt.. they decided to locker search my cousin. They didn't find anything there so they moved onto searching his car. Without search warrant. My aunt was pissed. The principal said that since the car was on school property they had every right to search the vehicle. They never found anything. My cousin may have had the best shit to smoke, but he wasn't an idiot. He didn't keep anything in his car or in his locker during school time... Actually he kept a little bit in chapsticks... when you use them down you can take out the top peice and stick whatever in the chapstick bottom and replace the top peice. He would whip that chapstick out all over the place. Maybe a bit of defiance. I don't know. But I know his real stashes were kept elsewhere.