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1 total messages Started by Jethro Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:08
open letter to aus.legal.moderated readers
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Author: Jethro
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:08
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*   cemeteries to fight the spread of AIDS. It's a bad quick fix. Police
*   chiefs across the country support [me] this 4 to 1. Unfortunately, Congress
*   can't act "soft" on crime, and is about to pass a very bad bill on
*   juvenile crime."

More bizarre distortions in our social fabric due to Zero Tolerance:

6/10/97 MSNBC: California: a ten-year-old girl who reported a classmate
for having a joint was also suspended by the principal, under the school's
Zero Tolerance for drugs policy. Her offense: handling the joint to see if
the other student was kidding her before reporting the other student. The
principal said "too bad, that's what 'Zero Tolerance' means". The little
girl and her mother are shocked. [I am not making these up!!!!!]

6/18/97 NBC News Channel 4 NYC: A career teacher is forced to resign because
she thought her student was kidding about having a baggie of pot. Students
and parents are stunned. The teacher said she believed her students had better
sense than that, and since she inspected it and it smelled like oregano she
was sure they were kidding her. Students and their parents protest, the school
board asks her back, but she says no, she is too disgusted at her treatment.

Zero Tolerance victims, falling into the abyss.


State troopers really know their "business":

:   Robert Fitches, a 22 year-old said in his Federal lawsuit that he was
:   humiliated when state troopers ordered him to drop his pants during a
:   drug search along Interstate 15 in Davis County.
:   Source: Salt Lake City Tribune 7/8/95

Maybe this is an accurate analogy of why dragnet-monitoring is wrong:

:   The Sheraton Boston Hotel was discovered videotaping employees changing
:   clothes in locker rooms. The 1991 surveillance caught employees using
:   drugs, Sheraton said. Source: Senate Labor Committee on Employment, 6/93

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