Well who woulda thunk it - there IS at least some justice left in this nation.
Well apparently there is some justice left in the world after all. Now if we could just get them to extend justice to adults as well maybe we could start living up to the promises this country was founded on.
Supreme Court rejects school strip search - Yahoo! News:
A public school violated the privacy rights of a teenage girl who had to disrobe on suspicion she had ibuprofen pills, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in its first decision on student strip searches.
By an 8-1 vote, the justices upheld a ruling that the school and its officials violated the U.S. constitutional right that protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
The ruling by the nation's high court was a major defeat for school officials who had defended the strip search as necessary for student safety, school order and combating a growing drug problem.
School officials in Safford, Arizona, had ordered the strip search in 2003 of Savana Redding, who was 13 and in the eighth grade. It did not turn up any ibuprofen -- an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medication used to treat fever, headaches and pain -- or any other drugs.
"Because there were no reasons to suspect the drugs presented a danger or were concealed in her underwear, we hold that the search did violate the Constitution," Justice David Souter wrote for the court majority.
Here's one part that sucks balls though:
In another part of the ruling, Souter said the school officials who ordered or carried out the search were entitled to immunity from liability because of uncertainty over whether the right had been clearly established at that time.No, they're not entitled to immunity. If you fuck up you accept the consequences of your fuck up. You don't make up some random bullshit immunity to cover for yourself. AT&T wasn't entitled to any sort of immunity either. They willfully and knowingly violated the law and are likely still doing it to this day because we granted them immunity. These douchebags shouldn't get immunity for mentally scarring a pre-teen for the rest of her life over a fucking unsubstantiated accusation by another student for something that' ISN'T EVEN ILLEGAL. It's not like the other student said "Well she's got cocaine in her underware". They accused her of having ONE IBUPROPHIN.
Fuck you and your fucking bullshit Zero Tolerance nonsense. Zero Tolerance policies do not stop children who are already determined to buck authority and break laws. The only thing they do is terrify the otherwise good and law abiding children because they may get into trouble if they stand up for themselves or for someone else. We are enforcing that our children grow up as victims.
The only person who won in this situation is the little prat who decided it would be a kick to destroy this girl's life in one fell swoop. Because of this bullshit policy, essentially the same exact policy that put ordinary shepperds in Afghanistan into CIA torture rooms, the bully won.
Oh and here's another little tidbit that sucks balls:
Only Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the part of the ruling that Redding's privacy rights had been violated.
Thomas said the ruling "grants judges sweeping authority to second-guess the measures that these officials take to maintain discipline in their schools and ensure the health and safety of the students in their charge."
Who the fuck put this guy on the bench? Oh that's right Bush Sr.
Listen you fucking fringe. The entire purpose of the judicial system IS to second guess all those shithead tin plated dictators out there who use their positions of power and authority to abuse regular ordinary law abiding citizens. It's called the LAW. Perhaps you should give it a fucking read some time. Your job is to punish people like this, whether they be the guy who decides it's ok to murder and rape you and then steal your car or the guy who decides it's ok to strip search a 12 year old girl because she 'might have' an ibuprophin on her, so that people don't just do whatever the fuck they want to whomever the fuck they want.