The 14-year-old kid arrested over his pro-NRA shirt now faces a year in jail

[decocker 7,198]

The whole thread and 14 page discussion was for protecting rights

Val - wakeup..........

[Darnell 8,478]

Are you serious??

Do you think everyone staffed in school has one generic skill?

Sure ! Mopping the floor.

I would posit that every teacher everywhere has the generic skill of mopping the floor, using the big mop.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

so cops should arrest based on individual morals, some personal drive? you're really grasping here

What he said was they should arrest based on if laws were broken..Geez what is with you anti gun nuts.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

What he said was they should arrest based on if laws were broken..

Next Harsh is going to call you a mind reader.

[Harsh_77 718]

Next Harsh is going to call you a mind reader.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

http://news.yahoo.com/14-old-kid-arrested-over-pro-nra-shirt-071819724.html

The West Virginia eighth-grader who was suspended and arrested in late April after he refused to remove a t-shirt supporting the National Rifle Association appeared in court this week and was formally charged with obstructing an officer.

As CBS affiliate WTRF reports, 14-year-old Jared Marcum now faces a $500 fine and a maximum of one year in prison.

What's wrong with people?

This is what happens when people (what's wrong with them?) accept intrusions on their rights. This is also why we HAVE rights.

I see the question is being asked by someone that has no trouble with oppressing 2nd amendment rights, now we can imprison someone for wearing a T-shirt. Of course our founding fathers never envisioned printed T-shirts so the first amendment probably does not apply to this...right?

Our President is promoting what he said was a violation of rights with tapping our phone calls, emails, and now using drones for surveilience. A senator that supports stripping our rights, Diane Feinstein, says "that is going to far"

Really? Who decides this? Feintstein? You? Me? This is why we have rights and why we need to protect them even when we do not "like them" or do not use them.

In the past, people have been imprisoned for speaking their minds...usually for a crime other than "speaking their mind" they are charged with "Obstructing an officer" etc. They are sent to re-education (we call it "sensitivity training") so they are trained not to say what is offensive at the moment to "society" Even in the Soviet Union, no one was arrested for "speaking their mind" Seriously? Just like no K-1 visa is ever denied for "age difference". No, there is always an over-riding "threat to freedom" that requires the truncation of rights.

These things are identical to Soviet practices to curtail free speech which was a "right" in the Soviet Union. Along with similar rights to privacy. But people accepted infringments on these rights "for the good of society" until they were no longer rights at all except on paper.

Living with a former Soviet citizen, it is a bit chilling when she says "Just like the Soviet Union"

[decocker 7,198]

wearing a tshirt isn't a revolutionary act. and this specific incident is not the 'norm' or the new 'trend' of government silencing authentic dissent..but instead a story to hype nra supporters to distract them from using their friggin brains.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

wearing a tshirt isn't a revolutionary act. and this specific incident is not the 'norm' or the new 'trend' of government silencing authentic dissent..but instead a story to hype nra supporters to distract them from using their friggin brains.

So I am not using my brain because I am against a kid being cuffed and charged with ZERO evidence of any wrong doing. I would feel the same exact way if he his shirt had read 'Ban the NRA" because first and foremost I am about civil liberties. Unlike many here who decided what is right or wrong based on which issue it is.

[Darnell 8,478]

na, it's all about the moral decay in the child's family unit.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Hate to break it to all you hysterical anti gun nuts who wanted to see a 14 year old put in prison for a T-Shirt

All Charges dropped.

http://www.wowktv.com/story/22709537/criminal-charge-against-8th-grade-student-arrested-after-nra-t-shirt-confrontation-dropped

Jared Marcum's mother, Tanya Lardieri, was overcome with emotion after signing a dismissal order and cementing the fact that the criminal charges against her 14-year-old son, Jared Marcum, have been withdrawn.

"It should have come sooner but it's done and we don't have to have that concern anymore about him having a criminal record" Jared's father Allen Lardieri tells WOWK. "I'm just glad that it's over. His mother is glad it's over."

Jared's attorney Ben White calls this a win for common sense. White says he's heard too many stories of children being penalized for seemingly harmless behavior, just because each of these incidents included gun imagery of one sort or another.

"I think, with the gun issue, with what is going on, this is a victory for common sense," White said.

The dismissal, signed by judge Eric O'Briant comes 70 days after, then 8th grader, Jared Marcum's pro-Second Amendment shirt, sparked what many are calling the fight over his First Amendment rights.

"I didn't think it would go this far because honestly, I don't see a problem with [the shirt], there shouldn't be a problem with this," Jared told WOWK on April 18, the day he was arrested.

While Jared didn't see a problem with the shirt, neither did the Logan County School District, as it has publicly stated that Jared's shirt did not violate the district's dress code.

Yet, Jared's refusal to change his shirt as demanded by Logan Middle School band Teacher David Burroway and his refusal to stop talking landed him in handcuffs facing an obstruction charge.

That is, until today.

With Jared's criminal charges taken care of, Lardieri and White say they plan on moving forward with a civil suit against the Logan County School District.

White wants to stress that today's outcome should be considered a win for both the prosecution and the defense. He says he hopes what happened today will show that the justice system and its integrity are alive and well in Logan, West Virginia.

[decocker 7,198]

Hate to break it to all you hysterical anti gun nuts who wanted to see a 14 year old put in prison for a T-Shirt

All Charges dropped.

http://www.wowktv.com/story/22709537/criminal-charge-against-8th-grade-student-arrested-after-nra-t-shirt-confrontation-dropped

good. never should have been charge in the first place.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

good. never should have been charge in the first place.

wow first I find out you are a birther now this.. Now that the other Caba chick has departed you are coming around

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The 14-year-old kid arrested over his pro-NRA shirt now faces a year in jail

Good. Support the NRA, go to jail.

[decocker 7,198]

wow first I find out you are a birther now this.. Now that the other Caba chick has departed you are coming around

i'm pretty sure i said i thought this kid shouldn't be charged with anything multiple times in this thread. the cops shouldn't have been called to begin with. i was only arguing with harsh about the hypocrisy of being up in arms about a kids right to wear a nra shirt - specifically. generally speaking, there should be as few young adults/children introduced to the juvenile "justice" system as possible. year in jail for a friggin tshirt? dumb.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

good. never should have been charge in the first place.

No justice, no peace.