Secret Service Questions Student on Drawings

[Professor S]

BACK... ON... TOPIC...

Lets think about this for a second before we start shooting around claims of denial of freedoms and the like. A 15 year old kid draws a picture of a terrorist with George Bush's head on a stick asking for an end to the war on terrorism. Now, do you think the secret service was brought in to go after the kid?

I don't think so.

There are multiple terror cells operating in this country RIGHT NOW, many of which we have no clue what they're up to. Odds are the secret service was brought in to possibly identify one of the cells through the contact they ay have had, say through a family member, with the kid. I agree that if the kid has no connection he should not be puniched in anyway for just speaking his mind, but simply questioning someone isn't out of the question.

Plus, think about it a little more. What if the kid was connected in some way to a terror cell and everyone just ignored it? After the act of terrorism was completed and all the information starts coming in, we'd be the most critical if we later found out some kid was drawing terrorists killing our president in public school was connected to it.

Everyone wants to be safe, and everyone wants to not be inconvenienced in the least. It doesn't work that way.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

BACK... ON... TOPIC...

Lets think about this for a second before we start shooting around claims of denial of freedoms and the like. A 15 year old kid draws a picture of a terrorist with George Bush's head on a stick asking for an end to the war on terrorism. Now, do you think the secret service was brought in to go after the kid?

I don't think so.

There are multiple terror cells operating in this country RIGHT NOW, many of which we have no clue what they're up to. Odds are the secret service was brought in to possibly identify one of the cells through the contact they ay have had, say through a family member, with the kid. I agree that if the kid has no connection he should not be puniched in anyway for just speaking his mind, but simply questioning someone isn't out of the question.

Plus, think about it a little more. What if the kid was connected in some way to a terror cell and everyone just ignored it? After the act of terrorism was completed and all the information starts coming in, we'd be the most critical if we later found out some kid was drawing terrorists killing our president in public school was connected to it.

Everyone wants to be safe, and everyone wants to not be inconvenienced in the least. It doesn't work that way.

That still doesn't justify why he was punished. I agree it's good to look into it, just to make sure it's ok, because in the world we live in, you never know. Better safe than sorry.

But what happened to the old phrase: "Innocent until proven guilty"?

[jeepnut]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

But what happened to the old phrase: "Innocent until proven guilty"?

O.J. Simpson happened.