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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (18114)12/21/2002 10:55:58 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
Here's a good one for the files.....

By Robert E. Pierre
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 21, 2002; Page A03

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich.

Satan's Web Page was not for the faint of heart. It lauded drug use and encouraged viewers to wreak as much havoc as possible. Rape people. Join the Ku Klux Klan. It included lists of people the creators thought were "cool" and another of "people I wish were dead."

There were disclaimers on the site, saying it was just for fun. It also admonished folks not to go out killing people and place the blame on the site's creators. But that was of little comfort to administrators of Kettering High School two summers ago when they learned that two students were behind the site, and that some classmates had made the "people I wish were dead" list. The two sophomores were immediately suspended, and expulsion was considered.

The student who was the primary creator of the site agreed to the four-month suspension and returned last January to a different high school in the Waterford School District to complete his junior year. But the parents of Joshua Mahaffey, who helped with the site, took a different course.

They agreed to let the police question their son without an attorney present and put Joshua through three days of psychiatric evaluation. When police declined to press charges and a doctor cleared Joshua to go back to school, the family thought things would return to normal.

But school officials, still worried about a security threat, didn't agree and said Joshua must serve a four-month suspension. So the family sued on the basis that the site's content -- no matter how repugnant -- was protected by the U.S. Constitution.......

washingtonpost.com

How many stupid people are in that story? <LOL>

jttmab
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