11 YO Suspended for Alleged WTC Smiling

Eric Cordian emc at artifact.psychedelic.net
Sat Oct 6 21:32:53 PDT 2001


Better not express a dissenting point of view when the government school
orders you to sit in your cubicle and write the state-mandated "Peace
Poem."

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/DD965CD05B568F2386256ADC00189CA3

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A Jefferson County fifth-grader served a three-day suspension this week
for drawing the World Trade Center attack on notebook paper and grinning
while showing it off.

Paul Volz, 11, last week drew the skyscrapers side by side with smoke and
fire pouring from the left tower. He said he taped the drawing to the
outside of his study cubicle at the North Jefferson Intermediate School.

In a discipline notice sent to Paul's parents, school Principal Jeff Boyer
indicated the boy had made "disruptive physical conduct or speech" and
"communication of a threatening nature."

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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"





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