Subject: Re: canadian kids in the brig
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 18:53:51 GMT
so this kid is being held without charge or what? doesn't sound too kosher,
sounds like the uk way of dealing with alleged terrorists. is it illegal to
say that you want to blow up a school? shouldn't we want to help the kid
first, instead of turning him into a "thought-criminal?"
andy
From: kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca (Paul Kennedy)
Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: Indirect B-Fish Mention in AP ((No) Celebrations...)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:56:00 -0500 (EST)
There's an interesting "freedom of speech" case that's causing considerable
concern in the Great White North these days. Last fall, a kid in Cornwall,
Ontario, read a self-composed monologue in front of a high school classroom.
The kid had only come to the school at the beginning of the fall term. He'd
been harrassed. Actually, he'd been beaten bloody. His monologue was all
about how he wanted to blow up the school.
This is Canada. But it's also post-Columbine.... (We get most of our "news"
from south of the 49th, up here....)
The kid was arrested..... He spent his 16th birthday in a detention centre
(read: prison for juveniles).... He spent CHRISTMAS in the detention
centre.... He spent New Year's Eve in the detention centre.... In fact, in
an article he's since written for a Canadian paper, he thanked the guard
that woke him up, two minutes before midnight, to welcome in 2001....
I don't know whether this is "relevant".... It might be a diversion....
Is this Canada?
Maybe Bob Dylan's best line: "There must be some way out of here...."
Cheers,
Paul
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