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April 28, 2004

Secret Service questions 15-year-old about anti-war drawings

eTaiwanNews.com/U.S. Secret Service questions 15-year-old about anti-war drawings

2004-04-28 / Associated Press /
Secret Service agents questioned a high school student about anti-war drawings he did for an art class, one of which depicted President George W. Bush's head on a stick.

Another pencil-and-ink drawing portrayed Bush as a devil launching a missile, with a caption reading "End the war - on terrorism."

The 15-year-old boy's art teacher at Prosser High School turned the drawings over to school administrators, who notified police, who called the Secret Service.

"We involve the police anytime we have a concern," Prosser Superintendent Ray Tolcacher told the Tri-City Herald newspaper.

Secret Service agents interviewed the boy last Friday. The student, who was not arrested, has not been identified.

The school district disciplined him, but district officials refused to say what the punishment was. Tolcacher said the boy was not suspended.

The artwork was apparently part of an assignment to keep a notebook of drawings, according to a friend of the boy's family.

The drawing that drew the most notice showed a man in what appeared to be Middle Eastern-style clothing, holding a rifle. He was also holding a stick with an oversize head of the president on it.

The student said the head was enlarged because it was intended to be an effigy, said Kevin Cravens, who said he is a friend of the boy's family. The caption called for an end to the war in Iraq.

A message left by The Associated Press with an after-hours duty officer with the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., was not immediately returned on Monday.

"If this 15-year-old kid in Prosser is perceived as a threat to the president, then we are living in '1984'," Cravens said.

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March 11, 2004

Calif. Lawmaker Champions Teen Suffrage Movement

While I think lowering the voting age is a fine idea, this proposal to give kids 1/2 votes and 1/4 votes is one of the stupider suggestions I've heard in a while-- not to mention being so obviously unconstitutional. People either get a vote or they don't get a vote.

FOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John Gibson - Interview - Calif. Lawmaker Champions Teen Suffrage Movement

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February 28, 2004

One strike and you're out of school

Salon.com Life | One strike and you're out of school

Youthful suicides, financial ruin, families torn apart for minor infractions: How post-Columbine hysteria is wrecking lives.

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February 09, 2004

Conservatives chide Duke diversity

heraldsun.com: Conservatives chide Duke diversity

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December 07, 2003

Bossier School Board upholds Advil expulsion

Bossier School Board upholds Advil expulsion

Girl had over-the-counter pills in purse at school

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November 26, 2003

Zero Patience for Zero Tolerance

Zero Patience for Zero Tolerance

Tuesday, November 25, 2003
By Wendy McElroy

News shows recently showed video of 14 police officers charging a crowded high-school corridor with guns drawn in a drug sweep. Students at Stratford Creek High School in Goose Creek, S.C., were forced onto their knees or against walls, while dogs sniffed their backpacks for drugs.

None were found. Although the incident was extreme, it was not an aberration but the logical consequences of "zero tolerance" policies, defended by both the school and the police. Zero tolerance must be abandoned, especially in connection with children.

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Read It Rating: 9
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 1
Learning Percentage: 25%

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November 20, 2003

Students must take personal responsibility

Students must take personal responsibility

Thursday Debate: What do you think about AU's new drug policy?

By Aaron Biterman

AU's new drug policy, which notifies parents of students for anything from a minor infraction to major abuse of illegal drugs, is a flawed policy. The administration appears to recognize the maturity level of its students in some areas of campus life -University bureaucrats aren't calling parents when their son or daughter is doing poorly in a class or doesn't attend enough classes. But such is not the case when it comes to drug or alcohol use.

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Read It Rating: 6
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 1.2
Learning Percentage: 20%

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November 12, 2003

Students Act Out Against Authoritative Principal -- He suspends them

This is the same school, same principal that suspended rapping student Sashwat Singh on October 29th. Word on the street is that he's a bit of an authoritarian.

Bad behavior at rowdy rally bans two students from Homecoming

Excerpt:

Members of the boys volleyball team read a lewd poem that ended with the word "masturbate." Cerutti said he did not hear the entire poem, but walked in toward the end of the reading.

"Appropriate and comprehensive disciplinary action was taken," Cerutti said, referring to the disciplined students.

He would not reveal the two students who were disciplined, however, two members of the boys volleyball team were suspended from three matches for unspecified reasons.

The two boys were banned from further participation in Homecoming activities last weekend. Cerutti would not say if the boys were suspended from school.

Another incident that occurred during the nearly two-hour assembly included a pie-eating contest among the Homecoming Court that devolved into a food fight, resulting in whipped cream being spilled on the gym floor.

"We are responding to specific incidents, and the leadership team will be examining the week of Homecoming activities," Cerutti, who is in his first year as principal at Central, said.

Students said that the assembly was not out of the ordinary and that it could be a case of students reacting to Cerutti's tougher style.

"Because Cerutti has been more strict than usual with the Homecoming events. People were a little more resistant to what he was doing, like the seniors standing up and turning around, that's not (what normally goes on)," junior Michelle Hoelker said.

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Read It Rating: 5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: -1
Learning Percentage: 70%

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Column: Sashwat proves a good judge of music

I much prefer this column over the Journal Sentinel's crappy editorial from a few days ago.

Sashwat proves a good judge of music

Last Updated: Nov. 11, 2003
by Laurel Walker

Sashwat Singh is smarter than the raunchy rap CD that got him in trouble at Brookfield Central High School would lead you to believe.

"A lot of rap music is garbage, including mine," he told me Monday, after learning he would be returning to school Tuesday after a five-day suspension and wouldn't face a threatened expulsion.

Well, he's got that right.

A sizable segment of society eats up these kinds of vulgar, violent, homophobic and misogynic expressions that make up much of rap. That kids today imitate it - Brookfield's Singh, 15, among them - should surprise no one.

In fairness, one of Singh's raps is amusing - a campaign song used in his successful run for class treasurer, minus the gratuitous profanity he added to the recording.

But most of the compositions on Singh's homemade, 14-track CD are garbage - shocking in both the imagery and language used.

Singh's song about his principal, Mark Cerutti, and its perceived threat, is apparently what brought the administration down on his head. It's full of graphic sexual and homophobic images as well as some variation of the f-word 40-plus times in a spread of 2 minutes and 43 seconds.

There's reason, I think, to have disciplined Singh - for blatant disrespect of authority and extreme profanity - particularly since he handed out the CD to friends at school. But it's hardly threatening, and treating it on par with gun possession and a genuine threat was overreaction.

Singh, who admits he'd never talked to the principal before writing the rap, said the song is really about discontent with the principal's overuse of police at school. The message - if that's what it is - obviously got lost in all this.

Dilip Singh understands his son's frustration and shares his concern about principals who act like "highly paid 911 operators" by calling police rather than dealing squarely with issues on their own.

"But I don't agree with the way he (Sashwat) expressed it," Dilip Singh repeated.

After his family hired an attorney who defended Sashwat's First Amendment rights, the school district superintendent ruled the suspension was sufficient discipline, provided the junior meet with a counselor upon his return to school.

Worse than the song about Cerutti, though, was Sashwat's ode describing his mother in unspeakable terms. The same mother, I presume, whom he admirably portrayed in one line of another song: "My mother told me not to swear."

Sashwat explained: "I'd gotten grounded after a dance, and I was in a really bad mood" when he immediately wrote and recorded the denigrating song on his home computer. "It's not one of the songs I'm really proud of."

Dilip Singh said he's listened only to the song about the principal and the one about his wife, but his wife has not. At least not yet. Perhaps the lesson Sashwat needs most is to sit across the table from his mother while she listens, heartbroken and mortified, to the terrible things her son sang about her.

If Singh feels any remorse, "I mainly feel bad about the song I wrote about my mom because I don't feel that way."

A junior who entered school early and now is enrolled in honors and advanced placement classes, Sashwat Singh shares on one of his raps a particularly pertinent pearl of wisdom about purchasers of his CD:

"You know what sucks? You're (expletive) paying two cents for every one (expletive) minute I put on this CD so I'm kinda wasting your time right now. . . . I'm wasting your money and (expletive)."

Exactly.

(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.)

Read It Rating: 9.5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: .7
Learning Percentage: 20%

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District won't seek to expel

Can someone illustrate to me the "victory for free speech" that this fool lawyer is talking about?

District won't seek to expel

But Brookfield student who made explicit CD must see counselor

By REID J. EPSTEIN
repstein@journalsentinel.com
Last Updated: Nov. 10, 2003

Brookfield - When Sashwat Singh returns to Brookfield Central High School today, he knows he'll be pegged with questions about the rap album that earned him a five-day suspension. He also knows he won't be able to answer most of them.

"I'm going to have to ignore most of it," he said. "Because if I make a disturbance in the school, they'll try to suspend me again for that."

An agreement Monday between the Elmbrook School District and Singh's family dictates that the district will not move to expel the 15-year-old junior, but requires him to see a school counselor to "make sure that he's not a Dylan Klebold-type kid," said Singh's Milwaukee-based attorney, Andrew Franklin.

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Franklin called Singh's reinstatement "a victory for free speech and a relatively decent compromise."

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The above quote by the lawyer can be made accurate quite easily, don't worry. Just remove 'victory for free speech and a relatively decent', and voila!, it's accurate!

Read It Rating: 9
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: -3.5
Learning Percentage: 25%

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Editorial: Strong rap on the knuckles

The first half of this editorial is mostly wrong; the second half is half-right.

To dig into it deeper would send me on a very long rant, but some of my thoughts on this have been posted at my main blog here, and more will likely be posted there soon. This kid's punishment has really pissed me off.

Editorial: Strong rap on the knuckles

From the Journal Sentinel
Last Updated: Nov. 7, 2003

In this post-Columbine world, Brookfield Central High School authorities had no choice but to suspend Sashwat Singh for creating a rap CD with violent and offensive lyrics, in which Singh denigrates classmates, his mother and his high school, and apparently threatens his principal.

As Ken Cole, executive director of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, points out, schools can't afford to take lightly any threat, even one buried in lyrics and made outside school. It "isn't a matter of all in good sport or fun," Cole said. "If some incident occurs a month from now, someone will say, 'You knew back then.' We have to treat every incident very seriously."

Beyond that, authorities - from parents to schools to police - need to send the message that violence and obscenities are unacceptable, no matter how prevalent both are in popular culture. Too often, adults are willing to let that message slide, often in the interest of trying to "relate" to children. That's laudable, but sometimes kids just need to be told "no."

Thus, the suspension issued by the school seems entirely appropriate under the circumstances. It also seems to be sufficient, unless further investigation reveals more disturbing elements in this incident that would warrant expulsion.

Singh did not bring a gun to school or try to sell drugs. The junior is a member of the school's band and choir and is enrolled in Advanced Placement and honors courses.

What he did may have been no worse than what kids his age have been doing since time immemorial: being outrageous just to annoy adults and win the admiration of his peers. And while the lyrics he wrote are certainly disturbing, they are hardly more disturbing than the lyrics of award-winning rapper Eminem and other popular artists.

So if further investigation reveals that Singh's transgressions are limited to the CD, it would seem that he has paid his debt to society. Anything more would be overkill.

(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.)

Read It Rating: 3
Left/Right Rating: R3
Freedom Rating: -3
Learning Percentage: 0%

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November 11, 2003

INTERNET DIARIES: School discipline questioned

INTERNET DIARIES: School discipline questioned
Student punished for comments made in online journal

By LISA KIM BACH
REVIEW-JOURNAL

"Kill Alaina!"

The throwaway comment about an irritating friend is one that former Valley High School senior Wesley Juhl wishes he had never recorded in his blog, a personal Web site he used to chronicle daily life.

At the end of September, a month after he first posted it on his personal computer while in the privacy of his home, Juhl found himself sitting in the dean's office facing disciplinary action.

That journal statement, and another that included a vulgar comment about a teacher, earned Juhl an in-school suspension and a required parent conference. The disciplinary action also brought to light the fact that Juhl did not have a current zone variance to attend Valley. As a result, Juhl was sent to Chaparral High School, which is the school zone he resides in.

Juhl, 18, is still wondering what authority allowed the Clark County School District to punish him. His journal was not a school assignment and was not posted using a school computer or a school message board.

"The dean told me that what I'd written wasn't school appropriate," said Juhl, who was Valley's homecoming king this year and also was president of its drama club. "He said it wasn't appropriate for a journal. I just feel like I've been violated, like they've punished me for expressing my personal opinion."

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Read It Rating: 7.5
Left/Right Rating: L2
Freedom Rating: -2.5
Learning Percentage: 77%

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November 09, 2003

Deadline extended on student's discipline for rap CD

Deadline extended on student's discipline for rap CD

The Associated Press

Published November 8, 2003

MILWAUKEE - A school superintendent Friday delayed deciding whether to hold an expulsion hearing for an honors student who was suspended for making a rap CD with a lyric that officials say threatened the principal.

Matt Gibson, Elmbrook School District superintendent, said he extended Friday's deadline to Tuesday morning to gather more information about the case of 15-year-old Sashwat Singh.

Mark Cerutti, Brookfield Central High School principal, suspended Singh Oct. 29 for a lyric on Singh's homemade rap compact disc.

Gibson extended the timeline for the next step during a 90-minute meeting set up at the request of Andrew Franklin, the boy's attorney.

"We had a good two-way communication," Gibson said. "We gained some time to work through the issues."

Gibson and Franklin declined to talk about the specifics of the meeting, citing Singh's privacy.

Singh was suspended for "gross disobedience or misconduct," which would put Singh's actions on par with a bomb threat, arson or bringing guns to school.

His 32-minute, 14-track CD includes references to illegal drug use and explicit sexual acts, Franklin said.

The rap about Cerutti suggests that if the principal doesn't leave Brookfield, Singh will "(expletive) beat your ass down." It also uses sexually explicit slurs to describe the principal.

Singh will return to class on Tuesday unless Gibson seeks expulsion, in which case Singh would be suspended for up to 10 more days and a hearing would be held.

Franklin called the lyrics "absolutely not a threat" and said there were better ways to deal with the issue than suspension or expulsion.

"This was a simple situation where someone tried to express himself and they suspended him because of it," Franklin said. "The punishment didn't fit the conduct."

Franklin said Singh was enrolled in advanced placement courses and enjoyed music classes. Franklin said after Friday's meeting that his client wouldn't talk to reporters until a decision was made on the expulsion hearing.

Franklin said Singh recorded the CD on his home computer and distributed five copies to friends at the high school. Neither Gibson or Franklin knew how Cerutti received a copy.

Cerutti did not return phone messages from the Associated Press on Friday.

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Read It Rating: 7
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 0
Learning Percentage: 60%

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Brookfield teen's CD ranted against principal; he's suspended

Brookfield teen's CD ranted against principal; he's suspended

(Published Friday, November 7, 2003 08:58:45 AM CST)
Associated Press

BROOKFIELD, Wis. -- A high school honor student who created a rap compact disc with rants about drugs and sex faces possible expulsion over a lyric that officials say threatened the principal.

Mark Cerutti, principal of Brookfield Central High School, said he first became aware of the CD Oct. 29 and suspended 15-year-old Sashwat Singh later that same day.

"Content is one part of the rationale for the action that's being taken," Cerutti said.

Administrators said the disc amounted to "gross disobedience or misconduct," which would put it on a par with a bomb threat, arson or bringing guns to school.

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The rap about Cerutti, who came to the school at the start of the school year after working in Madison schools and as a consultant, suggests if he doesn't leave Brookfield, Singh will "beat your ass down." It also uses sexually explicit slurs to describe the principal.

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Andrew Franklin, the teen's attorney, said the boy was simply "expressing himself" and the school has no right to discipline him.

"They're kind of like love songs and fantasies," he said. "It's a long list of outrageous things that he throws out there. I think it's an attempt to make him look like a deviant or a threat."

"Nothing about this is inherently more threatening than an Eminem CD," he said.

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Read It Rating: 7
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: -3
Learning Percentage: 35%

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School suspends teen for rap lyric

School suspends teen for rap lyric
Brookfield student says song not meant as threat

By REID J. EPSTEIN
repstein@journalsentinel.com
Last Updated: Nov. 6, 2003

Brookfield - A 15-year-old Brookfield Central High School student's homemade rhymes earned him a five-day suspension and could get the honor student expelled because of a lyric deemed threatening toward the principal - perhaps the first such case in Wisconsin.

Over the course of three months, Sashwat Singh wrote and recorded a 32-minute, 14-track rap compact disc featuring rants that made reference to illegal drug use and explicit sexual acts. He denigrates classmates, his mother and his high school. One track is a rap he used when campaigning to be class treasurer.

School administrators called the disc, which includes a song about the principal, Mark Cerutti, and conditions at the school, "gross disobedience or misconduct," an offense on par with making a bomb threat, bringing guns to school and arson.
But Singh's father, Dilip Singh, said he couldn't understand why his son was given the school's harshest penalty.

The other offenses "have to do with drugs and guns," Dilip Singh said. "When you look at what he did and compare one to the other, it doesn't make sense."

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Read It Rating: 7.5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: -3
Learning Percentage: 80%

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October 10, 2003

Student Suspended For Having Emergency Roadside Kit

Student Suspended For Having Emergency Roadside Kit
Kit Mom Gave Teen Contained Utility Knife

CORONA, Calif. -- Lori Bollong says she wants to warn other parents about the contents of emergency roadside kits after her son was suspended from school because of it.

Lori Bollong bought the kit for her 17-year-old son who drives 20 miles to an after-school job. But inside the new, unopened kit was a utility knife.

"According to them it's a weapon... no tolerance for weapons," said Lori Bollong.

Drug-sniffing dogs at Santiago High School detected Bollong's asthma inhalers inside his truck parked at school. That's when security opened a bag behind the passenger's seat and found the utility knife....

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Read It Rating: 6.5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 1
Learning Percentage: 70%

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October 07, 2003

Mother Convicted of Contributing to Child's Suicide

Mother Convicted of Contributing to Child's Suicide

Monday, October 06, 2003

MERIDEN, Conn. -- A woman was convicted Monday of contributing to the suicide of her 12-year-old son, who hanged himself in his closet with a necktie after being picked on for months at school over his bad breath and body odor.

Judith Scruggs, 52, was found guilty of one count of risk of injury to a minor for creating a filthy home that prosecutors said prevented J. Daniel Scruggs from improving his hygiene. She faces up to 10 years in prison when she is sentenced next month.

The six-member jury cleared Scruggs of a second charge that accused her of failing to provide her son with proper medical and psychological care. She also was acquitted on a cruelty charge.

Legal experts said the case may mark the first time a parent has been convicted of contributing to a child's suicide.

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Read It Rating: 8
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: ?
Learning Percentage: 90%

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July 23, 2003

Young Cambodians rock the vote

Young Cambodians rock the vote | csmonitor.com

Excerpts:

Whether for demonstrations against garment-factory conditions or to raise teachers' salaries, protest organizers look to youths for nearly all their support. When election monitoring groups appealed for local observers to fill their ranks, the response was almost exclusively from this younger generation.

"They are a strong force," says Koul Panha, executive directorof the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia. ...

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"They go to study in Phnom Penh and when they come back, they are educating their family," says Mr. Panha. "The son or daughter of a peasant farmer comes back and asks why they're not fighting corruption."

"It wasn't like that before," he says. "They didn't even see it as corruption."

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National Election Committee statistics estimate that more than one-third of some 6.3 million people who will vote in the upcoming election are 30 or under. And the number of teens coming of voting age is only expected to increase, with more than 60 percent of the total population age 24 or under, according to a recent UN Population Fund report.

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Read It Rating: 8
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 5
Learning Percentage: 80%

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July 13, 2003

Families live in fear of midnight call by US patrols

Thought you couldn't get any more appalled at what's going on in Iraq? Think again.

It turns out Bush was telling the truth in his 2000 campaign, when he said he wasn't into nation building. (Just nation destroying.)

If I had a "Read It" rating higher than 10, I'd give it to this article.

Families live in fear of midnight call by US patrols

From Daniel McGrory in Baghdad

NEVER again did families in Baghdad imagine that they need fear the midnight knock at the door.

But in recent weeks there have been increasing reports of Iraqi men, women and even children being dragged from their homes at night by American patrols, or snatched off the streets and taken, hooded and manacled, to prison camps around the capital.

Children as young as 11 are claimed to be among those locked up for 24 hours a day in rooms with no light, or held in overcrowded tents in temperatures approaching 50C (122F).

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Remarkably, the Americans have also set up another detention camp in the grounds of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad. Many thousands of Iraqis were taken there during the Saddam years and never seen again.

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Mr Akhjan, whose 58-year-old father was arrested three weeks ago for driving a truck with no doors or headlights, said: “People are so sickened by what is happening they talk of wanting Saddam to come back. How bad can the Americans be that in three months we want that monster back?”

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Read It Rating: 10
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: -10
Learning Percentage: 75%

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June 27, 2003

Ship 'em off to (Mormon Boot) Camp

Alex was officially diagnosed with "Oppositional Defiance Disorder"...

Symptoms?
"often losing one's temper, arguing with adults, actively defying or refusing to comply with adults' requests, deliberately annoying people, blaming others for mistakes, being touchy or easily annoyed, and often being spiteful, vindictive, or angry."

Oppositional Defiance Disorder = normal teenager

WIRETAP - Just Call Them Crazy

Just Call Them Crazy
Stevphen Shukaitis, WireTap
June 12, 2003

Alex Asch probably never thought he would be forced by police, private security, his parents, and the weight of the law to leave his choice of studies for a Mormon boot camp -- but on August 10, 2002 that's exactly what happened.

Alex was attending the Institute for Social Ecology, a radically inclined institution of higher education located in Plainfield, Vermont. It was the last day of summer classes when his parents hired two juvenile transport officers to remove him from the Institute. After removing him from the school he was forced to go to Turnabout Stillwater, a juvenile rehabilitation program located in Utah affiliated with the Mormon church. There he will be held against his will until his 18th birthday in June 2004.

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Alex was officially diagnosed with "Oppositional Defiance Disorder," which is defined as a disorder including symptoms such as often losing one's temper, arguing with adults, actively defying or refusing to comply with adults' requests, deliberately annoying people, blaming others for mistakes, being touchy or easily annoyed, and often being spiteful, vindictive, or angry. In a workshop during the National Conference on Organized Resistance in January it was joked several times that with a definition like that almost all those with radical and anti-authoritarian beliefs could be labeled as "disordered."

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Individuals who would like to support Alex are encouraged to write letters or if possible to send books about animal liberation, philosophy, and other countercultural topics (keeping in mind that they have to pass by the inspection of their "appropriateness" by staff). Materials for Alex can be sent to Alex Asch c/o Turnabout Stillwater 2738 S. 2000 E. Salt Lake City, UT 84109. Questions about Alex can be directed to Darren by sending a message to info@everreviledrecords.com.

Read It Rating: 8
Left/Right Rating: L6
Freedom Rating: -7
Learning Percentage: 55%

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