A high school football team posed for a fundraising calendar with weapons. The young men liked it, the coach liked it, the businesses that funded the calendar liked it, and the sheriff liked it so much he supplied the weapons.
A handful of local wimps didn't like it, so the principal caved and ordered the calendar's recall.
So much for the Founders' idea, that the militia would include young men. I guess it's better to let them reach military age ignorant of all things martial.
The recall of these calendars is nothing less than a good old fashioned Nazi book burning. So much for teaching the principles of freedom. The lesson here is the exact opposite: Ideas that make some uncomfortable must be suppressed and destroyed.
Hey, if there's no Second Amendment, why should there be a First?
This would be a great hot potato to throw the ACLU.
The principal is to blame here, not the wimps. They are entitled to their opinions, wrong though they are. The first amendment applies to them also.
ReplyDeleteThe fault here lies directly and solely with the principal. He/she could have taken a moral stance and told the wimps that while he/she believed the wimps had a right to an opinion, he wasn't obligated to deny rights to others to satisfy said opinion.
We are always inundated with rhetoric about how our school teachers and administrators are role models and how they provide guidance to our children to help them become contributing citizens in our society. Of course, that rhetoric comes from the recipients of the praise, big surprise, that!
Well, by their own words this principal stands condemned. He/she has shown no regard for individual rights if there are objections, and has retreated from a principled position to a principal position of no principles if he/she can avoid the hard work of being an American as mandated by our guiding principle.
In other words this principal has proven a moral coward and an unethical person. He/she should be allowed nowhere near impressionable youth trying to take their place in society.
Principally that school has an unprincipled principal. Perhaps that should be rectified.
sorry, i just couldn't help myself, thought I better make all the fun of the jackass while it is still legal to talk and write.
Just for kicks I contacted the principal. Here is my initial contact:
ReplyDeleteWonderful thing to teach your students...
So much for teaching the principles of freedom. The lesson here is the exact opposite: Ideas that make some uncomfortable must be suppressed and destroyed.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2997782#
How very sad. Probably would have been a great calendar, but it made some uncomfortable, therefore suppress and destroy it.
-- your quote was too good. Here was his response:
Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper?
--OK... here was my response:
Then you are still distributing the calendar, as it was initially done? Or someone pulled it besides you? Or are you saying that the following isn't true:
On Friday the principal said the posters will be pulled back from the businesses where they were distributed this week and replaced with a toned-down version.
"No more guns," declared Doug Jacobs of the poster featuring seven senior-class members of the football team.
If you are leaving it as it was then fine, my apologies. The problem is that we have so many lily livered namby pamby school administrators in this country that would balk at this poster, as the story indicates you did, that it is exceptionally believable. It is the same as with "no tolerance" policies that have people suspended for carrying a plastic butter knife. It is just so prevalent that it is an embarrassment.
-- Here was his response to that:
A calendar with a different picture was offered to anyone who was offended by the first picture. Lily livered namby pamby? Give me a break.
There's another account here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newutah.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=63588
If what you found out is for real, it looks like two papers got it wrong.
I wonder if they still have the original posters for those who won't be offended--seems like one heck of a fundraiser--I'd buy one. I'll bet they could make tens of thousands, easy, from gun owners across the country.