Obama Says Christian Schools Encourage “Fear” And “Division”

President Obama is at it again, basically attacking Christians as he always does.

You ever notice that he only attacked Christians? But worse than pulling his normal bullshit here, he did it in a foreign country when he disparaged both Protestants and Catholics on a recent visit to Ireland.

Americans have seen a steady rise in attacks on Christians by the liberal media, Hollywood, and those in charge of the Democrat Party.

But, since entering office, Obama, the man who was going to bring so much positive to the oval office, has instead used the power and far reaching authority of the United States Government to attack Conservatives, Christians, and anyone he sees as a political enemy.

He has used the IRS to terrorize Conservatives and Christians here going on five years, and now he is taking his dictatorial ways overseas to attack Christians in foreign lands -  as he did in a visit to Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit.

In his address in Ireland, Obama claimed that a Christian education promotes division and resentment.

Obama angered proponents of Catholic education during his visit to Northern Ireland when he told a Belfast audience that towns will remain divided "if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs."

An article, which subsequently appeared in the Scottish Catholic Observer, carried the headline, "U.S. President Undermines Catholic Schools After Vatican Prefect Praised Them."

The article said Obama "made an alarming call for an end to Catholic education in Northern Ireland," and quoted from recent remarks of the Vatican’s Archbishop Gerhard Müller, who had said that Catholic education was "a critical component of the Church."
As reported by The Scottish Catholic Observer, the President wagged his finger at the Brits saying, "If towns remain divided – if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden – that too encourages division and discourages cooperation."

That's right, according to Obama, Christianity divides.

The Catholic Observer went on to scold Obama:

Ironically, President Obama made his comments just as Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told a crowd in Scotland that religious education upholds the dignity of the human person.

Archbishop Müller said that Catholic schools should promote “all that is good in the philosophies of societies and human culture."

Ashley McGuire, a senior fellow with The Catholic Association, also viewed Obama's remarks as an attack on Catholic education.

"Catholic education is a longstanding tradition and a gift to society at large," she said. "Why the president chose to attack that tradition is beyond comprehension and represents his continuing effort to relegate religion to the private sphere."

None of this should be surprising to anyone since Obama’s Pentagon has deemed Christianity a "hostile" religion, and his Department of Homeland Security chief has put Christians on the terror watch list.

This is the same administration that is now trying to ban the reading of any Conservative literature in the U.S. military - believe it or not, including the Constitution and works by our Founding Fathers.

And yes, his administration is pushing for the Christian Bible to be banned from military installations while Islam is encouraged.

Obama has no problem with leftist ideals and hate promoted by Muslims throughout the world. He has never uttered a single criticism against Muslim schools of hate.

While he has been a staunch defender of Mohammad the Suicide Bombed, piss be upon him, Obama seems to have a problem with Christ in general.

So why does he feel only Christian schools cause "fear" and "division"?

Why doesn't he compare what is taught in a Christian school to that taught in a Muslim madrases like the one he attended in Indonesia as a young boy?

And ask yourself,  just how many Catholics and other Christians have flown planes into tallest buildings and killed 3 THOUSAND or more people at on given time?

Do Catholic and other Christian schools preach beheading another person, or using their faith as a reason molest boys and girls, or justify the rape and degradation of women?

How many Christians are taught to threat their women as slaves and hide them under burkas? How many Christian women fear death for not doing what Christian men want them to do?

Sure, we Catholics have Priests that have molested boys. But that is not a problem with Priests, it is a Gay problem withing the church. After all, it seems that only Gays in the church molest boys.

Are Christians killers of the innocent like those who step onto a bus and ignite a suicide bomb? No, Christians belief that the most precious thing that God gave us is Life.

Why is it that Obama fails to mention how truly vial Islam truly is to their own?

Is it a matter of convenience, not wanting to "upset" his Muslim brothers, or is it a matter of his being indoctrinated into the Muslim faith as a child - and he sees only fault with Christians as Islam preaches?

Would Obama have ever gone to a Muslim-controlled part of the world and excoriate them for having Muslim madrases that not only divide - but go on to preach hate and murder for anyone not of their faith?

Fact is, Sometimes I can't help but wonder if President Barack Obama is a Muslim terrorist himself.

Maybe not in the same league with that Muslim U.S. Army officer who preformed a terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas, or those two Muslim men who set of bombs in Boston, but Obama attacks the innocent and the Christian nonetheless.

He is in a different league than other political terrorists, his is the biggest league of all.

As President of the United States, his words carry weight, but also he uses surrogates in the media and drone attacks sans any sort of trial, a powerful military, and government agencies to carry out his attacks against those who oppose him and his political and religious ideologies.

He has attacked those who oppose Islam, and both American and allied innocents who have done nothing wrong except not fall in line. 
 
That's just the way I see it!      

Story by Tom Correa

Florida Cop orders woman to lift Shirt & Shake Bra during Traffic Stop

A Lakeland, Florida, police officer told a woman to lift her shirt, expose her stomach, and then pull her bra away from her body and shake it — all during a traffic stop.

The incident happened in Lakeland, Florida.

Officer Dustin Fetz pulled over Zoe Brugger and her boyfriend on May 21st because she was driving with a broken headlight, the Ledger of Lakeland reported.

Fetz told her to lift up her shirt, pull her bra away from her body and shake it out so he could see if she was hiding any drugs.

Believe it or not, according to the Lakeland Police Department, their officers have done this in the past to search for drugs. Imagine that!

The Florida State Attorney’s Office wrote a letter to Lisa Womack, Lakeland Police Chief, detailing the investigation.

The letter said that Zoe Brugger was pulled over because one of her front headlights was out.

After being asked to step out of the car, police searched the car, Brugger, and her passenger.

Brugger was sobbing as she followed orders. She said, "It was really, really humiliating."

She continued, "He said to pull out your bra and just shake it a little bit."

Apparently, the officer then asked her to do it again. "He said he was sure that I had drugs," she said.

Yes, believe it or not, he then ordered her to do it again and asked permission to search her car.   Brugger agreed, but changed her answer to "no" before he started, but Fetz searched the vehicle anyway. No drugs were found on her, on her boyfriend or in her car.

"[Fetz] made me go through the whole humiliating ordeal with shaking my bra out right there in the middle of this parking lot," Brugger said, according to WFLA.

"He told me that he was taking me to Bartow Jail for driving on a suspended license and that they had an x-ray machine there and they were definitely going to find what I had hidden inside me there."

Imagine this guy! Who the Hell does he think he is?

The incident happened in a parking lot of an apartment complex around 11pm. Brugger and the cops were in plain view of the public eye.

According to the Florida State Attorney’s Office, Officer Dustin Fetz had no reason to think Brugger had drugs on her. Remember, she was pulled over because of an inoperable headlight.

State Attorney Jerry Hill sent a letter to the LPD this week, calling Fetz's behavior "egregious" and "demeaning."

The letter added that Brugger did not believe Fetz's demands were sexually motivated, but that he was "on a power trip."

Hill noted there is evidence of other LPD officers using the bra-shake method in the past.

The letter called the search method “demeaning, ineffective and possibly dangerous.”

State Officials said this search method is not taught at the law enforcement training academy at Polk State College, where Fetz attended.

Despite this, the method appears to be an accepted practice among the police in that area.

Brugger said, "I really hope that nothing like this happens to any other women out there."

Investigator Mike Brown filed a report stating that Fetz's actions "went beyond the police actions that are permissible under law" and "violated the constitutional rights afforded to Zoe Brugger," according to WFLA.

Officer Dustin Fetz  was placed on a four-day administrative leave due to the incident, but he is currently back on duty.

Yes, Fetz was placed on paid administrative leave for only four days - that's it, four days - while a supposed "investigation" took place. He return to work June 18th.

The Lakeland Police Department says they will review the department’s search procedures and decide if changes should be made.

Lakeland Police Chief Lisa Womack called the incident "highly questionable" in a statement obtained by Fox 13.

Womack added that "this department does not condone [Fetz's] alleged actions."

"Highly questionable"? "Alleged"? What's "highly questionable" or "alleged" about it? It is on video with Fetz ordering her to do it so there isn't any "alleged" about it!

And as for Chief Lisa Womack saying its "highly questionable," we should all write the Chief to explain to her the difference between questionable and out-and-out wrong!

Its no wonder this jerkweed cop is on a power trip, his department sounds just as unprofessional as he is - and apparently supports his bullshit behavior.

So let's understand this correctly, no threat, no sign of drugs, no drugs found in her vehicle or on her boyfriend in the car with her, yet this asshole cop has the nerve to humiliate and violate this woman.

And what was his punishment? Go sit at home with pay!

They apparently support this bad cop ordering a woman to shake her bra during a totally unjustified search for drugs during a routine traffic stop.

Thankfully an acquaintance of Brugger's wrote a letter to the editor of the Ledger about the incident.  That letter, which was published on June 2nd, prompted the investigation by the State Attorney's Office.

Brugger is still not sure if she will pursue legal action against the department.

I hope she files suit against Fetz, Womack, and the Lakeland Police Department.

I would think a lawsuit would get this bad cop Fetz off the department and change the way they are treating their citizens.  


Story by Tom Correa

Crossing the Plains, 1865

It took approximately 300 years from 1500 to 1800 for European population to extend from the East Coast of America to the Mississippi River.

Popular wisdom at the beginning of the 19th century hypothesized it would take at least another 300 years, or most likely longer, to fill the area between the Mississippi and the Pacific coast.

Of course, it didn't take 300 years to settle the West. A number of factors accelerated the pace of change.

Beginning with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the US government acquired domain over the land to the west of the Mississippi through war, treaty or purchase.

The discovery of gold in California and the promise of fertile land lured an estimated 300,000 to the Pacific Coast prior to 1860.

In the midst of the Civil War, Congress enacted the Homestead Act entitling any head of family, anyone over the age of 21, or any veteran of military service to 160 acres of land.

With the end of the war, many took advantage of the offer filling the westward trails with wagon trains loaded with all their worldly possessions.

Before the end of the century America's frontier had been extended to the Pacific and then officially declared closed.

The decision to make the trek could not have been an easy one - motivated no doubt by hard times at home and the promise of better times to the west.

Sarah Raymond was one of those who made the journey along with her father, mother and brothers.

Her diary doesn't reveal her age, but we can assume she was young, probably a teenager.

The family began their journey on May 1, 1865 in Missouri and arrived at their destination in Virginia City, Montana Territory on September 6. Sarah details each day's adventures - accidents, sickness, river crossings, Indian encounters, mud, dust, monotony, and terror.

We don't know much about Sarah beyond what appears in her journal except that she married and stayed in Virginia City the rest of her life.

She first published her journal at the request of friends in a local newspaper, the "Rocky Mountain Husbandman," in the early 1880s.

Her diary was published in book form in 1902.

Eleven Graves

On June 12, 1865 - about 6 weeks after leaving Missouri - Sarah's group of wagons arrives at Fort Kearney, Nebraska Territory, a major way station on the road west.

There, the pioneers are confronted with evidence of the hazards of their journey:

"Monday, June 12

We stood by the graves of eleven men that were killed last August by the Indians.

There was a sort of bulletin-board about midway and at the foot of the graves stating the circumstances of the frightful tragedy.

They were a party of fourteen, twelve men and two women, wives of two of the men.

They were camped on Plum Creek, a short distance from where the graves are.

They were all at breakfast except one man who had gone to the creek for water, he hid in the brush, or there would have been none to tell the tale of the massacre.

There had been no depredations committed on this road all Summer, and emigrants had become careless and traveled in small parties.
They did not suspect that an Indian was near until they were surrounded, and the slaughter had commenced.

All the men were killed and scalped, and the women taken prisoners.

They took what they wanted of the provisions burned the wagons and ran off with the horses.

The one man that escaped went with all haste to the nearest station for help.
The soldiers pursued the Indians, had a fight with them and rescued the women.

One of them had seen her husband killed and scalped and was insane when rescued and died at the station.

The other woman was the wife of the man that escaped. They were from St. Joe, Missouri."

Killed on the Road

"Sunday, July 16

Just after we crossed the bridge, and where there is a sudden turn in the road, as it winds around the mountain, we saw where two men had been killed and two wagons burned last week.

The tire became loose on a wheel of the next to the last wagon in a freight train, the men stopped to tighten it, while the rest of the train moved on, not thinking of danger, and was out of sight in a few minutes.

An hour later some of the men came back to see what kept them.

There they were - dead and scalped - horses gone, and wagons on fire.

The Indians had taken all the freight they could use, piled wood under the wagons, and set it on fire.

We saw quantities of white beans scattered over the ground, also the irons from the wagons."

The Dust

"Wednesday, July 26

...I did not awake this morning until everything was ready for a very early start.

Mother had kept my breakfast warm by keeping the stove until the last minute.

I sat in the wagon and ate my breakfast after the train had started.

When through, I climbed out and went to see how Neelie [Sarah's friend] was. I found her feverish and restless; her symptoms unfavorable.

Oh, the dust, the dust; it is terrible.
I have never seen it half as bad; it seems to be almost knee-deep in places.

We came twenty miles without stopping, and then camped for the night.

We are near a fine spring of most excellent water - Barrel Spring it is called.

I do not know why; there are no barrels there.

When we stopped, the boys' faces were a sight; they were covered with all the dust that could stick on.

One could just see the apertures where eyes, nose and mouth were through the dust; their appearance was frightful.

How glad we all are to have plenty of clear cold water to wash away the dust."

Murder in Camp

As Sarah rides along with the wagon train she is approached by a friend - Frank - from a portion of the train that had split off to travel on its own. Her friend has news:

"Saturday, August 5

'Frasier was shot and killed day before yesterday evening.'

'Oh Frank; how did it happen?'

'Hosstetter did it, but I think he was not much to blame'

Frasier is the man who spoke to Cash, Neelie and I, as we were watching the wagons ferried across the Missouri River, whose son ran away from his mother, and home, to come to his father, and go with him to Montana.
Frasier had teams and wagons for freighting and Hosstetter some capital to invest in freight, to take to Montana.

Frasier advised the purchase of flour, and he would freight it to Virginia City for fifteen dollars per cwt.

He said flour was worth fifty and sixty dollars per hundred in Virginia City.

(So it was in the Spring of 1864, and as high as seventy-five and one hundred dollars per one hundred, which was the cause of a bread riot in Virginia City.)

No doubt Frasier was honest in his advice, and would have invested in flour for himself.
He charged more freight than was right, for ten and twelve cents is the prevailing price; but then Hosstetter should have found that out himself.

When he found he had been imposed upon and learned that flour is retailing at Virginia City for $15 per hundred, he was angry, dissatisfied, and perhaps quarrelsome.
Frasier was no doubt very aggravating.

They had quarreled several times, and the evening of the 3d, Frasier was heard to say to Hosstetter in a threatening tone:

'You may consider yourself lucky if you ever see Montana. You need not expect to get any of this flour. It will take it all to pay the freight.'

It was getting dark, and Fraser stood with one hand on a wheel as he talked.
He then got into the wagon and out again, with something in his hand, which Hosstetter thought was a revolver in the gathering darkness.

He came back to the wheel where he had been standing when he made the threat, and Hosstetter thought he had come to shoot him, and fired twice, as he thought, to save his own life, Frasier fell, shot through the brain, and died instantly.

Then it was found he had a hatchet in his hand and had come to tighten a tire on the wheel, which he had found loose when he laid his hand on it.
Frasier's eldest son of fourteen years is here.

There are five children and their mother at home. Hossteter has three children and a wife.

Eleven innocent persons to suffer, no one knows how intensely, for that rash act.

Frasier's son knelt beside his father's dead body and placing his hand on his breast, he swore a fearful oath that he would have but one purpose in life until his father's death is avenged.
Oh, what a shocking ambition for so young a boy."

Later in her diary, Sarah describes the trial of Hosstetter:

"...The men from these four trains elected judge, jury, prosecuting attorney and lawyer for the defense, and have tried Hosstetter for murder.

The jury brought in a verdict of 'Not guilty.'

He shot in self-defense, as Frasier had threatened to kill him."

Sarah's diary entry a day later notes that a squad of soldiers came and took Hosstetter to a fort near Green River (Wyoming) for an official trial.

However, she does not reveal the outcome of that trial.

River Crossing

"Thursday, August 24

We came to a toll bridge over the Blackfoot this morning, where the toll was one dollar per team and fifty cents for horseback riders.
There had been an excellent ford just below the bridge.

The men collecting the toll had spoiled it by digging ditches on both sides near the bank.

The water was clear, and they were plainly visible.

Hillhouse [Sarah's brother] mounted Dick [Sarah's horse] to see if we could ford it.

One of the men screamed out at him: 'You will mire your horse if you try that.'

'I'll risk it.' And he rode in below where the ditches were dug.
The pony's feet were not muddy.

Hillhouse found we could easily ford he creek below the ditches, which we did without accident.

It does seem a shame that we should have to pay toll for crossing a stream like that, after fording South Platte, North Platte and Green River.

The Missourians refused to pay the exorbitant price, and offered them fifty cents per wagon.
They swore they would not take a cent less than one dollar.

But the travelers were too many for them, and they drove over and did not pay a cent.

The toll men were fearfully angry, and made great threats, but the men dared them to do their worst and laughed at them.

I do hope we will get ahead of these people to-morrow. They are not the kind of people I like to travel with."

This eyewitness account is from Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days On The Road (1902).

Yes, she was there!

School Gun Policy Hysterics?

Do "make-believe" guns bother you?

How about orange water-pistols and lime green cap-guns? Do they make you uneasy, nervous, apprehensive?

Do you go into hysterics at the mere sound of a car backfire?

How about me pointing my index finger at you, feel threatened do you?

Did you feel that cold chill run up your spine knowing full well that my finger could be loaded?

Do the words "gun," or "shoot" make you wet yourself with fear and worry?

Does the term, "Shoot! It's good to see you, you old Son-of-a-gun" have you grabbing a phone and dialing 911?

If so, your sense of reality is screwed up! And yes, you too qualify as a School Administrator!

Want more? Well, do you think the quote, " The right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law" comes from one of those horrible Tea Party radicals?

How about the quote, "But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you ... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun"?

Does that sound scary to you? Do you think it came from one of those evil NRA members? Do you think either quote came from a racist?

What if you were an educator, would you stand for any of those types of quotes being tossed around your classroom?

Would you have the student who repeated such quotes sent to the Principal's office and the police called in to question the child?

Would you apologize to that student and express to him or her how truly sorry you are if that student told you that he got those two quotes while studying Martin Luther King Jr. and the Dalai Lama. Both are from them respectively!

What would you the educator do if a student wrote and essay on George Orwell and included his quote, "That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there"?

What if a teenager recited  D. H. Lawrence who said, "Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again; poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves" - what would you as an educator do?  

Would you have that kid suspended or thrown in jail or sent to see the school shrink?

While it seems most schools in the United States of America are on high-alert ready to pounce on any kid that merely says the word "bang," one school board has had enough of this insanity coming from so-called "teachers" and wannabe "educators."  

One school understands that there is no such thing as a one-size fits all when it comes to understanding the nuances of society and especially children in our schools.  

Finally, we have common sense in at least one of our public schools, in at least one Virginia school district anyway.

After two boy were suspended for "using pencils like guns", not to be confused with "using pencils like knives" which I still have a pencil point in my arm some 50+ years later, the Suffolk School Board decided to review their current "weapons policy" which was a very strict zero tolerance policy which left no room for interpretation.

Believe it or not, under the revised policy, school administrators can actually use their judgement and really look at factors such as intentions of harm and whether the object is listed as a weapon to determine the punishment.

And yes, believe it or not, other than kindergartners who have received Navy SEAL training, ordinary objects will no longer be considered weapons.

Yes, thank God, there is a school in America  that understands that a pen is a pen, a pencil is just a pencil, and a Pop Tart shaped like a capital "L" is not a pistol but only a half-eaten Pop Tart!

All index fingers will now be relegated to pointing and picking and poking, all of which do not enable them to discharge a single shot!

A local television station reports that school board members voted unanimously to approve the revised policy last week.

This comes on the heels of numerous students being suspended, expelled, and also arrested for cases involving toy guns at schools, talking about guns at schools, or wearing what some are calling "gun related" clothing such as an NRA t-shirt, and pointing their finger and saying "bang!"

Within the last few months, ever since the senseless killings by one maniac at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the majority of teachers and school officials in America have proven they know absolutely nothing about guns, index fingers, pencils, drawings, and Pop Tarts!

Actually, it appears most so-called educators and school administrators don't know their ass from a hole in the ground and have proven as much lately - especially when it comes to discerning a "real threat" - keywords "real threat" - and some youngster making a gun out of a Pop Tart!

No, whether vigilant teachers and school officials would like to think they are heading off another Columbine or Sandy Hook - a "child" with a Pop Tart eaten to look like the letter "L" or any other chewed up pastry pistol is not a threat to anyone.

As shocking as it may seem to some dim witted teacher out there who is afraid of water pistols and index fingers, their over-reaction is more detrimental to children than any pistol shaped Pop Tart or the word "GUN!"

Have teachers and school officials gone insane? Well, in a word, yes.

The definition of the word "insane" is not hard to understand and it fits the lunacy and distorted behavior of teachers and school officials perfectly.

in·sane /inˈsān/Adjective

1. In a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill.

2.(of an action or quality) Characterized or caused by madness.

Synonyms: mad, crazy, demented, lunatic

Caused by madness? Can hysteria cause madness? Do you want to talk about the cognitive distortions of those we put in charge of our children these days?

Do you want proof of their insane reactions to children who merely "talk" about guns, produce "paper" guns, bring in cap guns and water guns?

Take a look at these headlines:

11 Year Old Suspended, Family Questioned by Law Enforcement Because The Student TALKED About Guns

Multiple Students Suspended for Playing With Nerf Guns AFTER Teacher OK’d Them

Kindergartner Disciplined for Bringing LEGO Gun the Size of a Quarter to School

7 Year Old Suspended for Holding Pencil “Like a Gun”

6 Yr Old Suspended for TALKING About TOY Guns

Michigan Schools Shut Down because Former Student, Now Working For Air Force, Entered School Wearing His Work Camo

3 FL High School Students Tackle Gunman on School Bus, All 3 Are Suspended From School

7 Year Old Suspended For Chewing Pastry Into Shape of Gun

7 Year Old Boy Suspended After Tossing Imaginary Grenade at Imaginary Evil Forces

Student Suspended for Photo of Gun Set as Computer Desktop Background

Kindergartner Suspended, Forced to go to Psychologist for Threatening Student – With Pink Bubble Gun

Maryland School Suspends 6 Yr Old Student For Making Gun Shape With His Hand & Saying “Pow”

Middle School Student Suspended and Arrested For Wearing NRA T-Shirt to School

Girl in Elementary School Searched in Front of Classmates for Bringing Paper Gun to School

5 Yr Old Who Brought Cap Gun to School Interrogated for 2 Hours Without Parents Until He Peed Himself

This is called Hysterics! And yes, it has to stop!

Back when I was a kid, my parents taught me that teachers and policemen were my friends!

My mom used to say if I were in trouble that I can always find a policeman, and that they would help.  Yes, they were portrayed as people who would help me and not lose it emotionally.

Never did she say that I or my siblings would be "interrogated"!

Yes, interrogated! Even the word "interrogated bothers me - as should others - either by teachers, school officials, or police officers.

Never did she say that any of us should refrain from answering any questions until we have a lawyer present - if a teacher decides to question us about our actions.

Never did I think that I'd see the day when a child should be advised that they have the right to remain silent and not say a word until a lawyer is present. Because yes, our children too have rights as citizens.

Being interrogated until you pee you pants out of fear is something that I never thought I'd see in America - especially over something as non-threatening as a plastic cap gun.

Hysteria? Are teachers and school officials demonstrating an uncontrollable fear of guns or anything that their minds can imagine be used as a weapon? Are they facing a sensory deficit and simply can't think straight when it comes to making mountains out of molehills?

Damn right they are!

A few days ago, it was reported that the suspension of the 5 year old interrogated over a cap gun who then peed his pants won’t be removed from his record.  

School officials in Calvert County, Maryland have denied a request to expunge the suspension of the kindergartner who brought a plastic cap gun on a school bus last month and then wet his pants during a subsequent interrogation.

The unidentified kindergartner had brought the toy gun in his backpack because his friend had brought a water gun the previous day. He later told his mother that he “really, really” wanted his friend to see it.

The school's refusal came in the form of a letter, reports The Washington Post.

The letter stated that the five-year-old “did bring a cap gun in his book bag.”

The letter also stated that some other children were frightened and told school officials that they couldn’t discern if the orange-tipped cowboy-style gun was real or fake.

The idea of a 5 year old child being "interrogated" really bothered me. It is a sad commentary on those people at that school.

They interrogated a 5 year old child for 2 hours? What could you possibly ask a 5 year old for 2 hours and still call yourself an educated adult?

But also what really bothered me was the notion that "children were frightened and told school officials that they couldn’t discern if the orange-tipped cowboy-style gun was real or fake."

This makes me wonder if their fears were being heightened by way of the over-reactions from the teachers and school officials.

Is it possible that the teachers could have defused the situation by telling the other children that it is only an plastic cap gun and not a real gun?

Could have intelligent adults handled the situation differently? Of course they could have!

Is it possible that they didn't because it doesn't fit their political agenda to teach children that ALL guns, even toy guns - completely non-lethal by nature - are things to be frightened of.

School officials at Dowell Elementary School in the town of Lusby grilled the 5 year old for over two hours before finally calling his mother at 10:50 a.m.  

By that time, the little boy had wet his pants out of fear.

The school officials just let the child sit there in his urine soaked trousers and kept questioning him!

One report said that the school's principal — Jennifer L. Young, according to Dowell Elementary’s website — told the boy’s mother that things would have been even worse for the boy if had the toy gun been loaded with caps.

Believe it or not, if the plastic pistol actually had caps in it, then in that case the school would have regarded the plaything as an explosive and called the police "bomb squad".

Imagine the insanity! These people are idiots!

The original suspension handed down May 29th was for 10 days. After a disciplinary conference and the intervention of local attorney Robin Ficker, the suspension was reduced to three days.

School officials considered — and denied — the request to eradicate the punishment separately.

The boy’s mother, believe it or not also a teacher in Calvert County,  expressed frustration that a seemingly serious offense for a look-alike gun will now be part of her son’s permanent record.

“Why would you do that to a five-year-old who brought an obvious toy?” the teacher added

Attorney Robin Ficker said the family will now appeal the request to expunge the suspension to the Board of Education of Calvert County.

For me, I want to see everyone who terrorized this child fired, sued, and forbidden from teaching or working in schools where common sense and mature judgement is called for.

I want to see justice for the little girl who was searched in front of her entire class, humiliated and made to feel like a criminal because she had a "paper" gun.

I want to see people sued and money taken from their persons. I want to see their teaching credentials pulled and have them banned from school grounds.

I want those who don't have the maturity and know-how to understand the difference between an index finger and a real gun removed from our schools.  They have no business teaching our kids if they can't discern the difference!

I find it a shame that our kids have to be protected against over-zealous school officials. 

It seems common sense is completely absent at our schools. And yes, until it returns, I hope parents and friends will fight back. Fight back with everything they have!

Story by Tom Correa