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East Washington teen's sketches attract Secret Service scrutiny
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:41:20 -0400
From: Gerry Faulhaber <gerry-faulhaber () mchsi com> So...let's just suppose that a month prior to the Columbine killings in Colorado, the killers turned in sketchbooks to their art teacher with sketches of, let's say, themselves murdering their fellow-students, and maybe, let's say, people's heads on sticks. And let's assume that the teacher and principal decided not to do anything about it, because "then we are living in '1984'". Then after the killings, all of us would have accused the school authorities of ignoring blatant warnings of impending violence and they no doubt would have lost their jobs at the very least. The principal absolutely made the right call to bring in the police; failure to do so would have been gross dereliction of duty. And I'm not surprised the Secret Service got involved. "If a 15 year old kid in Prosser is perceived as a threat...." Yeah, he certainly could be a threat; the Columbine killers of approximately the same age were a huge threat to their chosen victims. Being 15 doesn't give you a free pass these days, nor should it.Gerald Faulhaber
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