CAUTION! READING AND UNDERSTANDING THESE FACTS MAY CAUSE YOU TO VOTE.



In 2001, an 8-year-old Arkansas boy was suspended from school for pointing a breaded chicken finger at a teacher and saying "pow, pow, pow." According to the school, the chicken finger violated the school's "no tolerance" policy against weapons at school.

A Belle, West Birginia junior high student was suspended from school for giving a non-prescription cough drop to another classmate. School policy requires a note from a parent to use any non-prescription medication.

In March, 1998, student activists at U.Mass., Amherst, Massachusetts, seized and occupied one floor of the school's Administration Building for a week demanding racial quotas. Provost Patricia Crosson excused their actions, arguing that "[E]ducation is about freedom of expression and the balance between civil disobedience and the enforcement of laws ..."

Beverley Grammar School in Yorkshire, England, disciplined an 11 year old for "racist humor" after he greeted an Australian fellow-student with the phrase "G'Day sport!" The school code prohibits "racial mimicry" by students or faculty.

In August, 1991, a University of Texas professor testified in a disorderly conduct trial that musician Kevin Michael Allen's defecation on stage during a rock concert in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was a Constitutionally protected act of artistic interpretation. Allen was convicted.

The Colorado Springs school district suspended a 6 year old boy 1/2 day for giving another child a lemon drop candy. The child was disciplined under the school's "zero-tolerance" drug policy for "distributing" the candy to another person. Answering public criticism, a school official pointed out that bringing candy to school was as disruptive as bringing a gun.

A 10 year old girl in Thornton, Colorado was disciplined for a violation of the school's "zero tolerance" sexual harassment policy for repeatedly asking a boy at recess if he liked her.

After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.

Barrington, RI, School Superintendent Philip Streifer

Oberlin (Ohio) College's Sado-Masochism/Bondage&Domination Club has been criticized by the Black Student Union for holding a "Slave Auction" on campus. The B&D/S&M Club, in an angry response, criticized the BSU for insensitivity to the lifestyle of its members, claiming "slavery" is simply part of its culture.

Susan McClary, a University of Minnesota musicologist, has found in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "... the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release."

Antioch (Ohio) College has taken a stand against date-rape by requiring individuals to consent to particular sexual acts. An actual quote: "Verbal consent should be obtained with each new level of physical and/or sexual contact/conduct in any given interaction ... Asking 'Do you want to have sex with me?' is not enough. The request for consent must be specific to each act."

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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