We had a strange visitor to our small town

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I'm sorry, but what does this story have to do with firearms? And a story of you being rude to a foreign reporter because of the news outlet he works for does not exactly make your town look any bit enlightened.
 
Right...and to hell with little things like "the rule of law"...

Sigh.

Here's the other side of the story:

http://www.pixiq.com/article/texas-superintendent-forbids-al-jazeera-reporter-from

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But despite his tolerance of other cultures, he [ed: school superintendent] would never allow a journalist to use a camera at a “public event, on public property and at a public school function.”

That would be violating something he refers to as the students' “FERPA rights.”

While it may sound official, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act has nothing to do with students getting videotaped in public. It simply ensures their grades remain confidential without prior consent from students.
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Nothing illustrates the split in the gunnie community between the Libertarian gun owners such as myself and the Authoritarian sort as a case like this.

Or, for that matter, US v. Miller, where the SAF and lawyers connected with the Cato Institute squared off against the NRA over how the 2nd should be applied to the states. My side lost, the NRA won. My side tried to get a much more expansive view of civil rights enshrined through the PorI clause of the 14th Amendment, which would have helped all kinds of people...but the part about probably leading to legal gay marriage didn't fly with the Authoritarian side of the gunnie community. They won, everybody (them included, sad to say) lost because just for starters, we should have obtained a right to a jury trial in state civil court which would have stopped a lot of abuses in "traffic court", "family law court" and other kangaroo courts. But no, can't have that, not if the gays win too.

Moderators: this is on topic!!! It is vital to understand this split in our ranks.
 
First: Did those two girls ever get found?

Second: I read his article AND the superintendent's response. I can understand the problems with filming at a high school; there are certain legal hoops to be jumped through that were not met. With that said... it sounds like a lot of assumptions were made by the principal and the superintendent. I lived in Texas for 9 years, and it sounds like this town just reinforced the Old West "We don't take kindly to strangers 'round here" stereotype. And I'm from a town in Oklahoma that is smaller than Booker.
 
Ok Jim...I'll bite. I am a libertarian, and as such, I believe that all American citizens ought to have the right to own guns regardless of their race, sex, religion, sexual preferences, political preferences, etc.

Same goes for every other right in the constitution and the law, including the right to marry.
 
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It is important no matter how difficult it may be for us personally to err on the side of freedom. We may not like what a particular journalist has to say, but dang it the constitution gives him the right to say it.

It never ceases to amaze me that people, who have a big interest in protecting our freedoms, as gun owners do, are so quick to deny other freedoms. It scares me that some individuals on the Left and Right want to whip society into some type of homogeneous politically correct group. If someone is not harming you or someone else or denying you your freedom what difference does it make what they do?
 
Seems that town is no different than many I know of... Don't make it right though!

Fiesta Night is not a case for your diversity... it is simply doin' what the resident mexican populace requires to keep them quiet and avoid ACLU confrontation.

And a state with that many legal and illegal mexicans having towns with a fiesta night don't prove diversity. Not that I want to see "cultrual diversity" in the form of holiday events.

But don't try to call a rake a spade...

Brent
 
Yes they did eventually find the girls at a friends house.

If this man had knocked on my door and flashed a business card as a form of I.D. I would not let him freely walk around my house interviewing my children and snapping pictures. So, I don't see why anyone would assume it would be ok to approach kids on a playground, and flash a card associating you with a Muslim tv network in a town that has no Muslims at all.

I am thankful that the school administrators choose to err on the side of caution. It sure makes it easier to send my child off for 6-8 hours a day with them.
 
And as for fiesta night, it is put on by the local catholic church as a fund raiser. It has less to do with cultural blending and more to do with making fast money.
 
I won't comment on any legal implications of that situation, but I will comment on the social implications, that whilst not mentioned directly, are one of the factors behind such situations.

I fail to see why the lack of any muslims in a town would make talking to a bonafide, legitimate news agency something bad.

It seems to me the word "muslim" is increasingly lumped together with other words like "extrememist muslim", or "fundametalist muslim", or "muslim terrorist". The latter three all contain the word "muslim". That does not make them the same thing as the word "muslim".

Aljazeera is a cable news network, run as a business that happens to be based on the the U.A.E. That is it.

Let's not confuse a muslim TV network, with a TV network whose market happens to be muslims countries. You would not call CNN a christian TV network beacuse it broadcasts to predominantly christian viewers, would you?

The fact that they are often cited as the source for another hate-vid by this group or that, is more a case of to whom these groups send their videos or messages.

If Al-Qaeda sent their next tape to CNN, would they send it back? Hell, no! News is their bread and butter, like Aljazeera's. You give them a story that will get airtime ratings, they will broadcast it. Period.

Having said all that, I can sort of see why both the reporter and the super got mixed up...
 
Jim March, your point is taken. However, the starting point for this discussion is off the reservation.

Closed.

Off topic.
 
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