Sedition I Say!
As you all know, I was forced to "leave" this website under threat of severe penalty. As of yesterday, that penalty can no longer be enforced, so I may "return" to my position.
On April 16, tragedy struck Virginia Tech. Dozens of students were killed or wounded in the worst shooting spree on US soil since the Civil War. A fair majority of the fault of this attack belongs to the school's inadequate security measures. After making his first two shootings, Cho was able to move about the campus for approximately two hours, mostly due to the difficulty of identifying him.
When I came to school on Tuesday, I expected Bruce to have a speech prepared for the morning announcements, relating the attack to the necessity of ID badges. This was a perfect example of how proper identification could keep students safer. This message, however, never came. For what has now been more than a week, I have pondered why Bruce did not take advantage of this situation.
I have come up with two theories as to why the administration dropped the ball.
First, our administration is merely incompetent. Presented with a perfect justification to enforce an otherwise unpopular policy, the administration was oblivious. Perhaps Bruce was too busy concocting lists of aspects of our school to praise to turn on a television or read a newspaper. Perhaps he felt that Officer Bolt's warning that, "IDs on a purse are a no-no" was good enough.
My second theory is far more disconcerting. Perhaps the reason we have IDs is not for student safety. Students throughout the school have pretty much universally disregarded this rule, yet it is not enforced on a large scale. Today, however, a friend was called into the office for an "ID infraction". Once they got there, he was informed that a lack of an ID had nothing to do with his summons. Apparently he had been seen in the presence of two individuals who were later caught smoking, and as he was in the office, his locker was searched. He was innocent on all charges, yet his experience led me to a startling revelation. The purpose of our ID policy is to give the administration an excuse to accuse any student they wish, without real justification.
Hoover, General Intelligence Division, Palmer Raids <-- wikipedia that.
Nick Johnson
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Today was the day I made my speech. My nerves were instantly cured as I entered the room. The third paragraph of this speech starts off "Failure is not an option. It's inevitable". Who did I see upon entering the room? None other than Bruce Elliot. It was glorious. By the rules of the setting, he had no reason or power to stop me. Whether my speech achieves it's intened goal or not, nothing can take away the feeling I got from openly mocking his beliefes in front of faculty, students and fellow adminastration.
We know why you're here Ann. We know what you've been doing. We know why you hardly sleep, why night after night, you sit by your computer, looking at this site. You're looking for a purpose. We know, because we were once looking for the same thing.
We were looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Ann. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as we did. What's Bruce's deal, yo?
Contact us in D209 if you want to learn more.
There was a time when he was just like us. Searching deperately in the darkess for some light, for some beacon of hope. He found his light, and we have found ours. We believe in demcracy and sme of us are anarchists I'm sure. Sgall we call Bruce Czar? King? Dictator?
Mre over, the is an Ann Onimous forced upon all of us. Do thse who attempt to dictate us know us? Do they care for our worries, or aid us in carrying oue burdens? Do they even care to know oue names? No. Rulers care not for the individual. We are all anonymous to them. I believe it was Stalin who said "The death of one is a tradegdy. The death of one million is a statistic."
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