Teacher Student Protection Act. It passed in the house. No due process, no Habeus Corpus strip search by any school official. Jon the janitor must be happy ! I do not think it has passed the Senate yet. H.R.5295 I think was the item.
2006-10-15 12:21:47 · 4 answers · asked by rc 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Does this surprise you? This is the same congressional body which has passed acts allowing the executive branch of the U.S. government to place wiretaps without getting court permission, and is trying to get around the Geneva Convention vis a vis the treatment of foreign prisoners (Guantanamo) who are also denied due process, habeus corpus and so on.
It grieves me to see the so-called champion of democracy becoming increasingly a police state.
No wonder the U.S. ends up in the annual Amnesty International Report!
2006-10-15 12:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bill targets guns and drugs. Recent school violence makes the the gun part make sense (but none of the shooting incidents involved guns hidden in lockers.). I am all for removing the threat of guns of any kind from schools.
I have much different feelings about drugs.
Since the Nixon Administration, the federal government has spent billions of dollars trying to rid our country of the drug problem by interdiction and criminalization. Neither has worked so far. This is just an extension of both policies.
2006-10-15 19:34:13 · answer #2 · answered by Buffy Summers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh well you have to keep the schools safe!
2006-10-15 19:24:36 · answer #3 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do I think this is not constitutional?
2006-10-15 19:28:55 · answer #4 · answered by bubu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋