Comments on: Seven Years for Shoving? http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: A Reader in the United States http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-24148 A Reader in the United States Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:31:57 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-24148 I cannot see for any justification for a judge sentencing a 14 year old girl to an “indeterminate” sentence up to 7 years for shoving a school safety official. This is regardless of the student’s prior emotional or behavorial problems. This is certainly very strange. It is also very peculiar that school officials were urging prison time for this student. I think this judge’s record (Chuck Superville) should be scruntized. If I had the power, i would remove him and I am glad the feds are investigating the school district (I hope something comes from it).

]]> By: miche http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-24012 miche Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:01:45 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-24012 More info on TYC:

http://ladyliberty.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/how-the-state-protects-children/

Not a good place for kids.

]]> By: Matt http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-23910 Matt Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:06:48 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-23910 http://dallassouthblog.com/2007/03/30/more-on-shaquanda-cotton-release-from-paris-news/

As of this morning Shaquanda Cotton is FREE!!!

]]> By: uhm http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-23758 uhm Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:07:35 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-23758 I thought the state took children away from bad parents and put them into foster care. She looks like she has BPD. 7 years of prison is overkill.

]]> By: G. Chell http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-23753 G. Chell Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:58:54 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-23753 One ignorant white female Texas resident recently told my sister that if he were alive Martin Luther King would have become US President. Based on this story he did not even have prayer of becoming the Governor of Texas…unless of course all the legal residents of Texas have a change of heart and become US citizens and make the racist white Texans a minority in their state.

]]> By: Ted http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-23723 Ted Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:44:07 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/30/seven-years-for-shoving/#comment-23723 First, a note.

I am an alumni of Paris High School in Paris, TX. I graduated in 1998.

I recall a fight when I was in school involving several people, in which people used brushes and cowboy belt buckles as weapons. If I recall correctly, there were suspensions, but no jail time. This fight was back in ’97 or so.

Funny how things change. Now a shove earns a girl 7 years in prison. 7 days is too much. Yes, she may have been wrong, but the account may not be fully correct.

Did she shove her way past, or did she shove in retaliation for a hall monitor putting his/her hands on the girl? If so, I would say she was fairly justified.

If she was spiteful, and shoved for no reason, or merely vocal provocation, then I say she was in the wrong, but she was failed. Failed by parents who did not advise that Offence and Self Defence are not one and the same. Failed by teachers who have forgotten what they were like as children. I am willing to bet most have been confrontational at one point in their lives. Failed by a system that reacts, to something that did not cause actual harm, by shoving her in a cell where she will learn more bad tendencies, not fix the ones she has.

I do not know if this is a race issue. I would love to believe it is not. I have to admit, the arson case is not favorable in appearance towards it having no racial bias. But I do know it is a miscarriage of justice to an extreme degree.

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