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Date Posted: 17:09:24 02/06/02 Wed
Author: Wakener
Subject: Re: Play it again Wakener?
In reply to: Dave 's message, "Play it again Wakener?" on 16:26:20 02/05/02 Tue

>Seems as if they have raised the issue of a person's
>thoughts again. They reacted to a drawing...how do
>you draw a parallel with this and the "thoughts" that
>were written down before when the kid was transferred
>because of what he wrote. I think they did the right
>thing by locking down the school. I realize it was a
>"found" notebook that started it all off, but
>Anthony's "thoughts" were found as well. It brings me
>back to the same thought that I had before of
>protecting the kids by overreacting rather than
>underreacting.
>What think ye?

I think that it is an apples and oranges issue. Nobody in Monday's episode was punished because of what someone else thought he thought. There was a credible threat to the school, and they locked it down in order to conduct an orderly investigation. That is perfectly reasonable. The kid isn't sitting in a jail cell because of the papers he wrote; he's there because he planted a bomb in the school. His "dark thoughts" as committed to paper cast the shadow of suspicion on him, but he was not *punished* because of it; he was *investigated* because of it. All of these things are very different than was the case with Anthony Ward.

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