Comments on: Tancredo Asks the ACLU to Represent Illinois Student http://msunderestimated.com/2005/10/17/tancredo-asks-the-aclu-to-represent-illinois-student/ Reality Bytes Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:51:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: alex http://msunderestimated.com/2005/10/17/tancredo-asks-the-aclu-to-represent-illinois-student/#comment-958 alex Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:34:52 +0000 http://www.msunderestimated.com/?p=183#comment-958 As a postscript to this story, I did a search of ACLU.org, and found nothing. I also was a little angered that they would not take this case. However, then I dug a little deeper and found that the student was merely "admonished." He was not suspended, expelled or even punished, probably just written up, and then the case was dropped when the lunacy of the write-up was realized. Therefore, while the initial admonishment was entirely wrong, as any American would agree, the ACLU had no case, and could not become involved in this. As for Representative Tancredo's involvement: pure, reactionary political posturing, designed to "rally the base" so they say. As a postscript to this story, I did a search of ACLU.org, and found nothing. I also was a little angered that they would not take this case.

However, then I dug a little deeper and found that the student was merely “admonished.” He was not suspended, expelled or even punished, probably just written up, and then the case was dropped when the lunacy of the write-up was realized.

Therefore, while the initial admonishment was entirely wrong, as any American would agree, the ACLU had no case, and could not become involved in this.

As for Representative Tancredo’s involvement: pure, reactionary political posturing, designed to “rally the base” so they say.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://msunderestimated.com/2005/10/17/tancredo-asks-the-aclu-to-represent-illinois-student/#comment-475 Anonymous Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:44:00 +0000 http://www.msunderestimated.com/?p=183#comment-475 Please post the e-mail address of the knucklehead principal at Larkin High School who thinks its a great idea for a public school to spend public funds and waste the students time by pandering to the anti-American, pro-illegal immigrant, pro-Mexican, lobby forces in Elgin, Illinois. This insanity has got to stop! We are in America people, not Mexico. Please post the e-mail address of the knucklehead principal at Larkin High School who thinks its a great idea for a public school to spend public funds and waste the students time by pandering to the anti-American, pro-illegal immigrant, pro-Mexican, lobby forces in Elgin, Illinois. This insanity has got to stop! We are in America people, not Mexico.

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