Not All Teens are Begging for their Rights to be Taken

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: April 7, 2018 at 2:09:35 PM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Not All Teens are Begging for their Rights to be Taken
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> [Note:  This item comes from friend Steve Schear.  DLH]
>
> Not All Teens are Begging for their Rights to be Taken
> By Joe Jarvis
> Apr 4 2018
> <http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/not-all-teens-are-begging-for-their-rights-to-be-taken/>
>
> Authoritarianism creeps in from seemingly unlikely places.
>
> Government officials will start with a premise that seems pretty legit.
>
> “Kids need to be protected. In order for parents and officials to protect them, kids can’t have full rights like 
> adults.”
>
> As child labor, compulsory schooling, and other “protective” laws have accelerated over the last 100 years, the 
> definition of “child” has gone from something like under 14-years-old to 16, 18, and 21 in many cases.
>
> But don’t worry, it’s just “kids” that don’t have rights. It’s just that American society considers people in their 
> early twenties “kids.”
>
> In fact, you can’t even run for the House of Representatives until age 25. According to what America fought its war 
> of independence over–“No taxation without representation”–people under 25 should be exempt from federal taxes.
>
> And yet the media has manipulated teens into marching not to have their human rights restored, but to take more of 
> their rights away. They want to make sure no one under 21 can protect themselves.
>
> This again is one of those things that sounds like a reasonable idea.
>
> “Teenagers are unstable, we don’t want them having guns!”
>
> Of course, 15-year-old gang members already seem quite capable of getting guns. And basically any 15-year-old in 
> America can get cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs.
>
> So instead of protecting “kids,” and protecting society from “kids,” these rules serve only to infantilize teens. It 
> is a spiral–as teens are more restricted, they lash out in protest, which is used as further evidence of the need to 
> restrict them.
>
> “Disturbing Schools” and “Disorderly Conduct”
>
> Teens are deprived of their liberty by being forced to attend public schools. And while forced to attend, they are 
> subject to arbitrary and vague laws.
>
> In South Carolina, almost 10,000 students under 16 have entered the criminal justice system due to laws against 
> “disturbing schools,” and “disorderly conduct.” Ironically, students over 16 were not included in the statistics 
> because they were charged as adults. So they don’t have the rights that adults have, but they can still be treated 
> like an adult by the criminal justice system.
>
> Students were charged for things like recording a school resource officer pulling a girl from her desk, throwing her 
> to the ground, and handcuffing her.
>
> Students sued with the help of the ACLU. The court found that the laws chill freedom of expression and present a 
> credible threat that students will be prosecuted for exercising their rights in the future.
>
> [The Court] determined [PDF] multiple students arrested and charged with violating the state’s “disturbing schools” 
> law and “disorderly conduct” statute made sufficient arguments that the statutes are too vague for students to know 
> what conduct will be interpreted as violating the law.
>
> The appeals court found the claims that they chill students’ exercise of free expression, “forcing them to refrain 
> from exercising their constitutional rights or to do so at the risk of arrest and prosecution,” were valid. It 
> vacated a district court decision and remanded the case.
>
> Some people think schools need to be tough on teens to teach them discipline. The problem is that this only teaches 
> obedience to arbitrary authority, and filters the resistance into the prison system.
>
> [snip]
>
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