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Swordsmyth
03-14-2018, 10:16 PM
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Just what we don’t need: more gun-toting, taser-wielding cops (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-school-resource-officers-school-schootings_us_5aa707e3e4b03c9edfaee4eb) in government-run schools that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to prisons.

Microcosms of the police state, America’s public schools already contain almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant, senseless, overcriminalized, legalistic, surveillance-riddled, totalitarian landscape that plagues those of us on the “outside.”
Now the Trump Administration wants to double down on these totalitarian echo chambers.
The Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has announced that it will provide funding for schools that want to hire more resource officers (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-school-resource-officers-school-schootings_us_5aa707e3e4b03c9edfaee4eb). The White House has also hinted that it may repeal “Rethink School Discipline” policies, heralding a return to zero tolerance policies (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/12/devos-commission-eyes-obama-school-discipline-rules/418147002/) that treat children like suspects and criminals, especially within the public schools.
As for President Trump, he wants to “harden” the schools (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/01/school-shootings-security-guns-431424).
What exactly does hardening the schools entail?
More strident zero tolerance policies (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/12/devos-commission-eyes-obama-school-discipline-rules/418147002/), greater numbers of school cops (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-school-resource-officers-school-schootings_us_5aa707e3e4b03c9edfaee4eb), and all the trappings of a prison complex (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/the-nras-plan-to-harden-schools-is-terrifying/)(unsurmountable fences, entrapment areas, no windows or trees, etc.).
Just when you thought this administration couldn’t get any more tone-deaf about civil liberties, they prove once again that they have absolutely no regard for the Constitution (especially the Fourth Amendment), no concept of limited government, and no concern for the growing need to protect “we the people” against an overreaching, overbearing police state.
America’s schools today are already about as authoritarian as they come.
Young people in America are now first in line to be searched, surveilled, spied on, threatened, tied up, locked down, treated like criminals for non-criminal behavior, tasered and in some cases shot.
Roped into the government’s profit-driven campaign to keep the nation “safe” from drugs, weapons and terrorism, many schools have transformed themselves into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug sniffing dogs, strip searches and active shooter drills.
It used to be that if you talked back to a teacher, or played a prank on a classmate, or just failed to do your homework, you might find yourself in detention or doing an extra writing assignment after school.
That is no longer the case.
Nowadays, students are not only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground, bringing LEGOs to school, or having a food fight, but the punishments have become far more severe, shifting from detention and visits to the principal’s office into misdemeanor tickets, juvenile court, handcuffs, tasers and even prison terms.
These outrageous incidents are exactly what you’ll see more of if the Trump Administration gets its way.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-14/whitehead-say-no-hardening-schools-zero-tolerance-policies-gun-toting-cops

goldenequity
03-14-2018, 10:36 PM
agree X 1000