From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Sep 30 2000 - 00:03:19 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Consider this article from this morning's San Jose Merc. Gilroy
> is about 30 miles down the street:
>
> Gilroy Student Arrested in Attack on Schoolmate
>
> A 15 year old Gilroy High School student has been arrested
> and charged with assaulting a schoolmate because he believed
> the victim's sexual orientation to be different from his own,
> police said.
>
About time. Many of us lived in fear throughout grade school and well
into college.
>
> High school principal Wendy Gudalweicz called it a harassment
> incident, adding no form of harassment is tolerated and that
> the youth already had been disciplined. She declined to elaborate.
>
> Reason I consider this newsworthy: students throwing rocks
> at each other is something that happens every day, but now we
> have a kid who has been arrested for assault, and was stupid
> enough to admit the reason he did it. This changes everything,
> and not just because it is an example of a thought-crime.
> Looks to me like any high school student can now stop any
> beating or attack simply by saying "Back off, Im gay."
>
When you actually commit a physical act of aggression (even a small
one) it is NOT a "thought crime". Thanks for playing.
- samantha
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