Dumbing Down

[Roamy]

Read this:

A standout North Carolina high school student has been suspended for the remainder of her senior year and charged with a misdemeanor for having a small paring knife in her lunchbox.
Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford told WRAL she accidentally took her father's lunchbox to Southern Lee High School in October instead of her own when school officials searched the lunchbox, along with several other students' possessions, possibly looking for drugs.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29...#ixzz19Yyg6s5q


In addition if you walk into a store to buy alcohol you are carded regardless of you age ie 12 to 80 doesn't matter.

The really sad part of this is that there are so many areas like this in which citizens who work and live are being treated like total dummies. What is sadder is that the people are accepting this. We should be throwing lawmakers out of office and repealing these stupid laws. This country is sooooo ripe for a revolution.

[Tazio]

Read this:

A standout North Carolina high school student has been suspended for the remainder of her senior year and charged with a misdemeanor for having a small paring knife in her lunchbox.
Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford told WRAL she accidentally took her father's lunchbox to Southern Lee High School in October instead of her own when school officials searched the lunchbox, along with several other students' possessions, possibly looking for drugs.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29...#ixzz19Yyg6s5q


In addition if you walk into a store to buy alcohol you are carded regardless of you age ie 12 to 80 doesn't matter.

The really sad part of this is that there are so many areas like this in which citizens who work and live are being treated like total dummies. What is sadder is that the people are accepting this. We should be throwing lawmakers out of office and repealing these stupid laws. This country is sooooo ripe for a revolution.

She looks like a crazed killer to me
Probably selling crack to pay for her Soccer cleats

BTW Were just getting old Roamy.
Our society is not only dumbed down, it is totally pussified!

I wonder how Wade feels about this?

[ICWS]

Unfortunately, it seems most Americans wouldn't know what a true revolution is even if it bit them on the ass. Also, they seem to not want to even attempt to do a revolution themselves unless they are given some instructional book, DVD, pamphlet, or e-book created by a self-proclaimed leader to guide them to revolt, or if the T.V. tells them to do one. Even then, the attempt at making a revolution would probably end quickly.

The ability to think for oneself without needing someone to tell them what to do seems to be severly lacking in Americans as the years continue to go by. The way most Americans elect politicians is a good example of this. I think most Americans should and do know by now that both the Democrats and Republicans are for the most part out to do what's best for their own party rather than necessarily what's best for the country as a whole, yet despite all the criticism of these two parties, the politicians who represent the two parties keep getting elected because the voter is told "these are your only two options for this position". Do most Americans even know that there are Independent politicians out there? It doesn't bother me if someone's a leftist, conservative, socialist, libertarian, etc. but I'm bothered that these American voters keep voting mostly for the Democrat or the Republican, even though there's a good chance there's an Independent candidate on the ballot that represents the voter's viewpoints better than the Democrats and Republicans.

I know that there are some genuine and sincere politicians in both of those parties who want to help the country as a whole, but it seems 90% of the Democrat and Republican politicians serve their party's interests, and almost purposely forget to serve the people who voted for them in order to seek approval of their own party and to bring down/defeat the opposition.

[Eki]

The solution is to give every student a bigger knife.

[Roamy]

Hey check this out:

The Massachusetts Parole Board is under scrutiny after a local police officer was killed by a career criminal who was released despite serving a term of three concurrent life sentences.
Dominic Cinelli was serving time for shooting a security guard during an armed robbery to feed his heroin addiction when he told the board in November 2008 that he was a changed man, the Boston Globe reported.
Four months later the board unanimously voted to free Cinelli, but police say the 57-year-old returned to his ugly ways Sunday, fatally shooting Woburn police officer John Maguire, 60, while robbing a Kohl's department store. Cinelli also died in the shootout.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29...#ixzz19ZUdaOFv

Now this guy should have been put to death long ago and what did they do??
They freaking let him out.

Yes EKI there is an advantage to getting old - We won't have to suffer through where this train wreck ends up !

[race aficionado]

Unfortunately, it seems most Americans wouldn't know what a true revolution is even if it bit them on the ass. Also, they seem to not want to even attempt to do a revolution themselves without some instructional book, DVD, pamphlet, or e-book created by a chosen leader to guide them to revolt, or if the T.V. tells them to do one. Even then, the attempt at making a revolution would end quickly.

The ability to think for oneself without needing someone to tell them what to do seems to be severly lacking in Americans as the years continue to go by. The way most Americans elect politicians is a good example of this. I think most Americans should and do know by now that both the Democrats and Republicans are for the most part out to do what's best for their own party rather than necessarily what's best for the country as a whole, yet despite all the criticism of these two parties, the politicians who represent the two parties keep getting elected because the voter is told "these two are your only options". Do most Americans even know that there are Independent politicians out there? It doesn't bother me if someone's a leftist, conservative, socialist, libertarian, etc. but I'm bothered that these American voters keep voting mostly for the Democrat or the Republican, even though there's a good chance there's an Independent candidate on the ballot that represents the voter's viewpoints better than the Democrats and Republicans.

Interesting post.
mokin:

[Roamy]

ICWS -- good post

[Rudy Tamasz]

I wonder what they would think about me. I carry a knife with me most of the time. It comes handy quite often although I caught a couple of confused looks when I took it out of the pocket to open boxes and sharpen pencils.

Once I humiliated my boss at an office party. He was trying to open a bottle of wine using a sophisticated corkscrew and failed. I unfolded a very basic corkscrew from my knife and opened it.

[Roamy]

rudy - don't take it in you carryon.

I have sent my torch lighter to myself 3 times now.

[CNR]

have a shotgun on you

http://pweb.netcom.com/~brlevine/sta-law.htm

South Carolina

Any person carrying a deadly weapon usually used for the infliction of personal injury concealed about his person is guilty of a misdemeanor, must forfeit to the county, or, if convicted in a municipal court, to the municipality the concealed weapon, and must be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days. Nothing herein contained may be construed to apply to (1) persons carrying concealed weapons upon their own premises or pursuant to and in compliance with Article 4 of Chapter 31 of Title 23, or (2) peace officers in the actual discharge of their duties.
The provisions of this section do not apply to rifles, shotguns, dirks, slingshots, metal knuckles, or razors unless they are used with the intent to commit a crime or in furtherance of a crime.

16-23-430. Carrying weapons on school property.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, except State, county or municipal law-enforcement officers or personnel authorized by school officials, to carry on his person, while on any elementary or secondary school property, a knife, with a blade over two inches long, a blackjack, a metal pipe or pole, firearms or any other type of weapon, device or object which may be used to inflict bodily injury or death.
(2) A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Any weapon or object used in violation of this section may be confiscated by the law enforcement division making the arrest.