Re: canadian kids in the brig


Subject: Re: canadian kids in the brig
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 14:42:05 GMT


On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 11:56:47 -0500 Jive Monkey
<monkey_jive@hotmail.com> wrote:

> As far as the kid in Canada is concerned, I still don't think that vebal
> threats constitute a crime, nor does sticking up for yourself. His crime
> remains, in my eyes, nothing more than the ultimate social crime of being
> different.
>
> andy
>

Well, I do think that the point at which being different crosses the
line into seriously considering blowing up your school is pretty
worrying.I don't know if things had truly got that out of hand, I don't
trust everything I read in the newspapers. I guess what I really think
is that, even if the kid concerned was at real risk of erupting ito
some serious violence, incarcerating him for a month was not at all the
way to deal with it. I have seen a lot of bullying and it is rarely
dealt with in an appropriate way, if at all, so I can understand why
someone could wind up wanting to kill their schoolmates.

Love, Lucy-Ruth

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LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk

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