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Title: Warrants Issued For Family Who Cheered At High School Graduation
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Counter Current News
URL Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/ ... red-at-high-school-graduation/
Published: Jun 4, 2015
Author: S. Wooten
Post Date: 2015-06-05 08:55:53 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 7460
Comments: 56
A graduating teen’s father, Henry Walker, shouted: “You did it, baby.” That was enough to have a warrant issued for his arrest. The Mississippi school had asked parents, friends and family to hold their applause until the end. But Walker was so overjoyed that he shouted this cheer out and waved a towel. The crowd was far from angry at him, as his comment drew laughs from the crowd. That was all there was to it. There was no interference with the graduation ceremony, just a proud father who couldn’t contain his pride in his daughter. The Mississippi family was shortly thereafter kicked out of the graduation ceremony. But as surprising as that reaction was, they were even more floored when they were charged with disturbing the peace. Superintendent Jay Foster defended the police state response, saying that he had warned audience members to hold their cheers until all names had been called. Local WREG-TV reports that Ursula Miller admitted that she too had called out the first name of her niece, Lanarcia Walker during the graduate’s walk across the stage at Senatobia High School. For that “crime” she is now being charged too. About a week after the ceremony, the family was informed that there is a warrant out for each of their arrests. Superintendent Jay Foster filed disturbing the peace charges against all of them. “It’s crazy,” Walker exclaimed. “The fact that I might have to bond out of jail, pay court costs or a $500 fine for expressing my love – it’s ridiculous man. It’s ridiculous.” “I can understand they can escort me out of the graduation, but to say they going to put me in jail for it,” Miller added. “What else are they allowed to do?” Watch the local video from WREG-TV… If you agree that this is ridiculous then help us SPREAD THE WORD and hold the police and this superintendent accountable for their bullying this family! (Article by S. Wooten) ******** Superintendent Jay Foster defended the police state response, saying that he had warned audience members to hold their cheers until all names had been called. Sometimes the petty tyrants are the worst. Superintendent Jay Foster filed disturbing the peace charges against all of them. "Disturbing the peace"? Uh - OK, sure thing fascist. What an officiously petty little prick. Welcome to Police State Amerika, where unbridled joy in your child's achievement is a now a crime. 
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#13. To: Deckard (#0)
No applause, cheering or towel waving allowed.
Nothing said that applause, cheering or towel waving was not allowed. It was said there would be a time for it. The line between forcefully and excessively expressing one's uncontrollable enthusiasm at a public meeting and disrupting the enjoyment and peace of others is a fine one. Public officials at every level have experience those rowdy ones who desire to make a spectacle of themselves from time to time. While one person may need to vocalize slightly to express happiness, yet another may stand up continuously waving a towel and excessively screaming. The former is likely protected by the First Amendment, but the latter is not under a recent published decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The school was apparently having a problem that continued to grow over the years, in that the family and friends would go into lengthy and wild celebration akin to those at a political convention when someone was nominated to run for President. The celebrating after each name was called were getting out of hand and causing long delays in the ceremony. The superintendent asked everyone to delay their celebration until after all the names were called. That request was even clearly printed in the program. However a great paradox of freedom is that it really cannot be had unless we limit it in some cases. Freedom always has boundaries, dictated by the norms in society….and freedom is defined by society and culture. Socially, one’s freedom is limited by others' freedom. The other attendees had the freedom to enjoy the ceremony uninterrupted and not delayed. Yes, this is after all a free country, but expressing that freedom gives no one the right to interfere with the freedom of others.
I always figured you for a Clinton-esque liberal. "When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." Bill Clinton, 42nd US President http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=49995 The hell with you and the hell with your Progressive views on freedom.
I always figured you for a Clinton-esque liberal. I can see you could miss figure that since I always knew you are an anarchist.
Anyone who shares Clinton's views on freedom is someone who would cheer as the military goes door to door and confiscates guns.
#36. To: Deckard (#34)
Anyone who doesn’t know what freedom is someone who will cheer anarchy. Even the Libertarian Party Platform states:
Does your "unrestricted freedom' allow for child pornography?
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This is a free country, after all...
#17. To: Chuck_Wagon, Deckard (#13)
No applause, cheering or towel waving allowed.
This is a free country, after all...
#27. To: Gatlin (#17)
However a great paradox of freedom is that it really cannot be had unless we limit it in some cases.
Source: MTV's "Enough is Enough" 4-19-94
#32. To: Deckard (#27)
However a great paradox of freedom is that it really cannot be had unless we limit it in some cases.
Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of persons or single person which does not recognize authority. It originally meant leaderlessness or lawlessness.
#34. To: Gatlin (#32)
Replies to Comment # 34. We recognize that full freedom of expression is possible only as part of a system of full property rights.
What does this mean?
#37. To: Deckard (#34)
...views on freedom...
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