-Caveat Lector- The real terrorists are terrorizing your children. Acclimatizing your children to live in a police state. Get your kids out of those government school cesspools. ------------------------ School Drug Sniffing Dog Disputed By BERNARD McGHEE Associated Press Writer
July 26, 2002, 10:19 PM EDT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- An attorney for a South Dakota school district on Friday disputed claims that students were confined to their classrooms for several hours while a police dog toured the rooms, sniffing children as young as 6 to check for drugs. A lawsuit, filed Thursday afternoon in federal court, called the search a violation of students' constitutional right against unreasonable searches. It was filed by the parents of 17 elementary and high school students. The suit says a German shepherd got off its leash in a kindergarten classroom at the Wagner Community School and chased students during a May search. Some students started crying and at least one urinated involuntarily, the court papers allege. Ken Cotton, attorney for the district, said on Friday that two searches were conducted in April and May after parents and students complained about drugs in the school. He said his preliminary investigation has found that dogs were not brought into kindergarten, first or second grade classrooms, nor did a dog get loose. "The dog was never, ever off the leash," he said. "The dog never, ever chased anyone around the room." He said he also doubts the suit's claim that students felt frightened. Two of his own children who attend the school have told him the dogs were well-behaved and they never felt threatened, he said. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is involved in the suit, alleged that the Wagner School Board approved the search. The school board is named as a defendant, along with former Wagner Police Chief Richard Volk and Neil McCaleb, assistant secretary of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department. The lawsuit is the latest episode in a dispute between the ACLU and the school board in Wagner, 85 miles southwest of Sioux Falls. In March, the ACLU sued the board, alleging the school system's method of selecting board members discriminates against American Indians. The 17 students filing the latest lawsuit are Indian, the ACLU said. Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press ---------------- -iNFoWaRZ Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers. -Dr. Walter Williams <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
