12 year old suspended for explosive material at school.....

[The Straight Story]

dates and breaking news from Oregon

RENTON, Wash. -- A 12-year-old girl has been suspended for the rest of the year because she brought party poppers to Nelson Middle School in Renton.

Her father, Louis Green, told KIRO News she was suspended 18 days for being in possession of an explosive material.

Party poppers are sold as toys. They have a small explosive charge that makes a popping noise and sprays confetti when you pull a string.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/party_poppers_at_washington_sc.html

The terrorists did indeed win....

[RandomThoughts]

1. Those that believe in fear do not win unless you are scared.

I assume your statement is about the security state.

The simple fact is there is very little real terrorism or people that want to destroy from outside the system.

It is the system that does that. It can be proved because they build things like those oil platforms. The people building those were not worried about the made up terrorist threat. Because most of the hyping of the terrorist threat was to get people scared.

Fear, including fear of terrorism, was told to people so control methods of a non democratic security state could be set up.

It is no different then what is done when democratic third world states have had things done to try and overthrow democracies.

There are some things that want a strict authoritarian structure based on fear, so people follow and do not think or feel.

[slackmaster]

2. They're exempt from federal explosive control laws, therefore they are legally not even explosives

:crazy:

[TexasProgresive]

3. There are wackos everywhere

They suspend kids for using their finger as a gun, for drawing a stick picture with a gun and so forth.
This is the reason I am against "zero tolerance" policies because they don't allow for thoughtful action. There should always be some sort of due process.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. That distinction is most likely lost on the teachers and school administrators

Its way too rational to be true

[Panorama]

5. That's pretty extreme. n/t

[Biker13]

6. Far Too Extreme.