Government Thugs
Rad Geek has three awful stories of petty little thugs hired by government schools to harass and intimidate students. At least one of these stories has racial overtones, but it would be a mistake to ascribe these actions merely to prejudice. This is what inevitably happens when government employees are given carte blanch to exercise cohesive power.
In the first story, a 13-year-old girl was asked to strip naked because school security thugs has "reliable" information that she had an ibuprofen tablet - basically a freaking aspirin.
In the second story, security officers quiz high school girls about whether they are having their period to see if it is OK that they are carrying a small purse.
In story number three, a fifteen-year-old girl was tackled by security officers, forced down on a table, and had her wrist broken in an arm lock. Later she was arrested and charged with assault. All because she failed to fully clean up a piece of cake she dropped on the floor.
In the same incident, two onlookers were attacked, tackled, handcuffed, and arrested for photographing and video-taping the incident. This is what you get for trying to record video of government employees at work:
Twenty years ago, when I would have called myself a conservative instead of a libertarian as I do today, I probably would have said, "Oh, there are probably two sides of the story. He probably provoked them." I am embarrassed to admit it, but that might have been my reaction. But watch the video that is linked from Rad Geeks post. What could he have possibly done to warrant this? You can see in the video he was just circling the security guards filming them until one pointed at him, the other came at him, and then this. This boy was led from the school in handcuffs and spent the night in jail. Sick.
Hat tip Catallarchy.
