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Published: 2018-05-10
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX5RAtoh3ME
just what we don't need more gun toting taser wielding cops and government run schools that believe it or not Maryland comfortable resemblance to prisons microcosm of the police state America's public schools already contain almost every aspect of the militarized intolerant senseless over criminalized legalistic surveillance written totalitarian landscape that plagues those of us on the so called outside now president trump and Attorney General Jeff sessions wants
to double down on these totalitarian echo chambers sessions has announced that the justice department will provide funding for schools that want to hire more resource officers as or so call the White House is also hinted that it make repeal rethink school discipline policies heralding a return to zero tolerance policies that treat children like suspects and criminals especially with in America's public schools as for trump he
wants to harden the school that's his quote what exactly does hardening the schools entail more strident zero tolerance policies greater numbers of school cops and all the trappings of a prison complex just when you thought this administration couldn't get any more tone deaf about civil liberties in our constitution they prove once again they have absolutely no regard for that for the constitution especially our Fourth Amendment
no concept of limited government no concern for the growing need to protect we the people against an overreaching overbearing police state folks American schools today are already about as authoritarian as they come from the mall when a child enters one of the nation's ninety eight thousand public schools to the moment he or she graduates they will be exposed to a steady diet of draconian zero tolerance
policies that criminalize childish behavior overreaching anti bullying statutes that criminalize speech school resource officers or police tasked with this moving into arresting so called disorderly students politically correct mine says to teach young people to censor themselves and those around them and extensive biometric and surveillance systems that coupled with the rest after that young people to a world in which they have no freedom of thought speech
or movement young people in America today now the first in line to be searched surveilled spied on threatened tied up locked down treated like criminals for non criminal behavior tasered and in some cases actually shot roped into the government's profit driven campaign to keep the nation safe from drugs weapons and terrorism many schools have transformed themselves into quasi prisons complete with surveillance cameras metal detectors police
patrols believe it or not zero tolerance policies lock downs drug sniffing dogs strip searches and active shooter drills he used to be that if you talked back to a teacher or played a prank on a classmate or just failed to do your homework you might find yourself in detention or doing an extra writing assignment after school that's the longer the case now the students are not
only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground bringing legos to school or having a food fight but the punishments have become far more severe shifting from detention and visits to the principal's office into a misdemeanor tickets June upcourt handcuffs tasers and even prison term book prison terms students have been suspended under schools zero tolerance policies for bringing to school look
alike substances such as oregano breath mints birth control pills and powdered sugar look alike weapons toy guns or even legal size ones hand drawn pictures of guns pencils twirled a threatening manner imaginary bowls and Errol even fingers position like guns can also lead the student in very very hot water even good deeds do not go on Puneesh one thirteen year old was given detention for exposing
the school to liability by sharing his lunch with a hungry friend a third grader was suspended for shaving your head is sympathy for a friend who had lost her hair to chemotherapy and then there was the high school senior who was suspended for saying bless you after a fellow classmate sneezed in South Carolina where it's against the law does too disturbing school more than a thousand
students a year some as young as seven years old face criminal charges for not following directions loitering cursing or the vague allegation I'm acting I'm not just like if charged as adults they can be held in jail for up to ninety days increasing the number of cops in the schools only adds to the problem indeed the growing presence of police in the nation's schools is resulting
in greater police involvement in routine discipline matters that principals and parents used to address without involvement from law enforcement officers indeed the school resource officers have become de facto wardens in elementary middle and high schools doling out their own brand of justice to the so called criminals in their midst with the help of tasers pepper spray batons and brute force the horror stories are legion one
school resource officers accused of punching a thirteen year old student in the face for cutting into the cafeteria line that same cop another student in a chokehold a week later alleging knocking the student unconscious and causing a brain injury in Pennsylvania a student was tasered after ignoring in order to put his cell phone away with thirteen year old Jon Batiste failed to follow school bus drivers
direction to keep the bus windows close he suffers from asthma he opened the window after fellow student sprayed perfume causing him to cough and wheeze he was handcuffed by police believe it or not removed from the bus and while he was still handcuffed had his legs swept out from under him by an officer causing him to crash to the ground young Alec stone didn't even make
it past the first week of school before he became a victim of a police state directed by his teacher to do a creative writing assignment involving a series of fictional Facebook statuses stone wrote I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur I bought the gun to take care of the business despite the fact that dinosaurs are extinct the status fabricated and the South Carolina student was merely following
orders Alex teacher who reported him to school administrators who in turn called the police what followed is par for the course in schools today students were locked down in their classrooms well armed police searched the sixteen year old locker and bookbag handcuffed teen charged him with disorderly conduct of disturbing the school arrested him detained him and then he was suspended from school not even the younger
elementary school aged kids are being spared from these kind of hardening techniques as trump calls it on any given day when the schools are in session kids who act up in class are pinned face down the floor locked in dark closets tied up with straps bungee cords and duct tape handcuffs leg shackles tasers or otherwise restrain immobilized or placed in solitary confinement in order to bring
them under control it's call in almost every case these undeniably harsh methods are used to punish kids some as young as four and five years old for simply failing to follow directions or throwing tantrums very rarely do these kids pose any credible danger to themselves or others unbelievable these tactics are all legal at least when employed by school officials and school resource officers in the nation's
public schools this is what happens when you introduce police and police tactics into the schools by the time you add in the lockdowns and active shooter drills instead of making the schools any safer school officials have succeeded in creating an environment in which children are so traumatized that they suffer from post traumatic stress disorder nightmares anxiety mistrust of adults authority as well as feelings of anger
depression humiliation despair and delusion police officers at a Florida middle school carried out an active shooter drill in an effort to educate students about how to respond in the event of an actual shooting crisis two armed officers guns loaded and drawn burst into classrooms terrorizing the students and placing the school into a lockdown mode if these exercises are intended to instill fear and compliance into young
people they're working folks in fact the toll such incidents take on adults can be life altering but when such police brutality is perpetuated on young people the end result is nothing less than complete indoctrination into becoming compliant citizens of a totalitarian state schools acting like prisons school officials acting like wardens students treated like inmates and punished like hardened criminals this is the end product of all
of those so called school safety policies which run the gamut from the zero tolerance policies that punish all infractions harshly so harshly to surveillance cameras metal detectors random searches drug sniffing dogs school wide lockdown active shooter drills and militarized police there can be no avoiding the hands on lessons being taught in the schools about the role of police in our lives ranging from active shooter drills
and school wide lockdown was two incidents in which children engaging in typically childlike behavior are suspended for shooting an imaginary born Errol and a fellow classmate hand cuff war one for being disruptive at school arrested for throwing water balloons as part of a school prank and even tasered for not obeying so called instructions instead of raising up a generation of freedom fighters which one would hope
would be the objective of the schools government officials seem very determined to churn out newly minted citizens of the American police state who are being taught the hard way what it means to comply fear in March a lockstep with the government's dictates so what's the answer not only for the here and now the children growing up in these quasi prisons but for the future of this