[Ansteorra] just read the link
Chris Zakes
dontivar at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 20:07:02 PST 2006
At 08:43 PM 12/14/2006, Matthias the Brewer wrote:
>A logo and mascot are not the same as a person with a real weapon on their
>person. They are drawings or representations of the actual weapon. The
>student was holding an actual weapon.
Yes, and a yearbook photograph of someone with a sword is not the
same as having a person with a *real* sword in the school, either
(which, presumably, was the initial purpose of the "no weapons"
policy.) It's kind of difficult to stab someone with a photograph.
I have to wonder if their school library has taken out all the
pictures of swords (and other weapons) from the encyclopedias and
history books.
Shyla wrote:
>We should pick our battles more carefully. Like someone else said
>there are other things that can be done that are SCA related, and
>suing over it just seems immature and makes us all look bad. Is this
>really the publicity we want? Now when we say "I'm in the SCA"
>people will say "oh yeah that's that thing where the mom sued
>because the school wouldn't let the kid have swords in the picture."
>Is that the image we are looking for? Think about it....this will
>reflect on us all regardless of how the rest of us feel. Just my thoughts.
Well *I'm* all in favor of standing up against stupid and arbitrary
policies by government officials. There's also that line in the
Constitution about our right to keep and bear arms...
-Tivar Moondragon
Ansteorra
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