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Showing Original Post only (View all)God, this is it. Police state. [View all]
Is anyone else as angry as I am about the Parkland students being FORCED to use see-through backpacks? And they're talking about getting metal detectors like prisons and courthouses. What has happened to our country??? It's time for a nonviolent revolution. It is time.
CNN has the story.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/us/marjory-stoneman-douglas-clear-backpacks/index.html
"It's difficult, we all now have to learn how to deal with not only the loss of our friends, but now our right to privacy. My school was a place where everyone felt comfortable, it was a home away from home, and now that home has been destroyed," he said. 'This backpack is probably worth more than my life'
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Senior Delaney Tarr tagged Rubio in a tweet of a picture of her bag with feminine products and the orange price tag attached to it.
"Starting off the last quarter of senior year right, with a good ol' violation of privacy!" she said in another tweet.
In addition to displaying the orange tag, senior Carmen Lo stuffed a sign into her backpack that read "this backpack is probably worth more than my life."
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Senior Delaney Tarr tagged Rubio in a tweet of a picture of her bag with feminine products and the orange price tag attached to it.
"Starting off the last quarter of senior year right, with a good ol' violation of privacy!" she said in another tweet.
In addition to displaying the orange tag, senior Carmen Lo stuffed a sign into her backpack that read "this backpack is probably worth more than my life."
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Does he accept it as normal?Has he ever known the exquisite feeling of being considered trustworthy?
DemocracyMouse
Apr 2018
#2
Like the one that had 65M people voting for one candidate but the one with lesser votes 'won'?
ck4829
Apr 2018
#26
If they really wanted to be safe, they'd install metal detectors on the school buses
Blue_Adept
Apr 2018
#12
Clear backpacks + metal detectors are not what the constitution means by a "well regulated militia"
DemocracyMouse
Apr 2018
#17