Because I'm still buying them and not reading them.
"Man sues, says he was forced out of meeting" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | September 29, 2010
A South Hadley man sued the former head of the town’s School Committee and two police officers in federal court yesterday for allegedly cutting him off and ejecting him from a public meeting after he criticized how school officials handled the bullying of Phoebe Prince.
Luke Gelinas, a 48-year-old insurance salesman with two children in the school district, accused Edward Boisselle, until recently the chairman of the South Hadley School Committee, and two South Hadley officers of violating his civil rights through their actions at the April 14 School Committee meeting.
“The lawsuit will send a message to our kids that bullying on any level is unacceptable,’’ Gelinas said in an interview.
The suit, filed in US District Court in Springfield, stems from the raucous School Committee meeting where a deeply divided, standing-room-only crowd expressed both anger at and support for officials over how they responded to the bullying of Prince.
Related: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: She's No Princess
Gee, the Globe never mentions those things in the follow-up pieces.
Prince, a 15-year-old South Hadley High School student who had recently immigrated to the United States from Ireland, hanged herself in January, allegedly after relentless harassment by schoolmates. The widely publicized suicide drew international attention and led to criminal charges against six students....
Also see: South Hadley Teens Bullied Into Courtroom
Actually, the state is the biggest bully around when you really think about it.
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"Student secretly taped having sex kills himself" by Associated Press | September 30, 2010
RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — A New Jersey college student jumped to his death off a bridge a day after authorities say two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and showed it over the Internet....
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"Rutgers mourns freshman who committed suicide" by Geoff Mulvihill and Samantha Henry, Associated Press | October 2, 2010
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University students wore black yesterday to mourn a classmate who committed suicide, while a lawmaker proposed tougher penalties for invasion of privacy — the charge against the roommate accused of secretly streaming video of the victim’s sexual tryst with a man.
Calling it “Black Friday,’’ students at New Jersey’s largest university were encouraged to leave flowers or mementoes at a makeshift memorial for 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, a freshman and promising violinist who jumped off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River last week.
I do not want to take away from the grief; however, we have kids being killed far away over lies and no one ever suggests a Black Friday.
The Rutgers football team also planned a moment of silence before its game today against Tulane University.
Also see: Rutgers remembers freshman at game
About a dozen students from the Phi Delta Theta fraternity set up two tables yesterday about a half-mile from the dorms in neighboring Piscataway where, authorities say, Clementi’s roommate and another freshman surreptitiously captured his liaison.
Fraternity members urged students to wear black and collected bouquets, roses, or potted flowers from people who wanted to send condolences to Clementi’s family....
They have mine, too; I would never do anything like this to anyone, gay or straight.
The saga that unfolded this week at Rutgers has become a flashpoint for debate about the treatment of young gays and lesbians....
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Colleges should adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment following the suicide of a Rutgers University student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was streamed online, US Senator Frank R. Lautenberg said at a town meeting on campus.
I was just wondering when this lying, war-mongering government was going to quit bullying people, Frank. Frank?
Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, told the crowd gathered Wednesday night in memory of 18-year-old freshman Tyler Clementi that he would introduce such legislation....
The death of Clementi has prompted a national discussion on the plight of young gay people and bullying, along with technology’s role in it....
Another avenue to shut down the web. I'm glad I don't engage in any of that s***.
A new survey has found that while technology has become so entwined with college students’ often frantic lives, being perpetually connected comes at a cost.
In the Associated Press-mtvU Poll released yesterday, 57 percent of students said life without computers and cellphones would make them more stressed, a significant number — 25 percent — said it would be a relief.
The AP-mtvU Poll of more than 2,000 college students, conducted before Clementi’s death became public, found that 9 in 10 had been on a social networking site like Facebook in the past week.
You will never find me on Facebook.
One in five say they have posted public messages on such sites seeking emotional support, while more than two-thirds say they have read public posts by friends pleading for such assistance.
Clementi’s death was one of a string of suicides last month involving teens believed to have been victims of antigay bullying. Just days after Clementi’s body was recovered, more than 500 people attended a memorial service for a central California youth, Seth Walsh, 13, who hanged himself after enduring taunts from classmates about being gay.
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"Bullying links feared in suicide" by Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press | October 2, 2010
HOUSTON — Prosecutors said yesterday that they will look into what led to the suicide of a 13-year-old Houston boy whose parents say was relentlessly bullied at his middle school for two years because of his religion and sexual orientation....
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Yeah, wait until the lawsuits start rolling in and school districts are sued into bankruptcy.
Also see: Globe Editorial Bullying: Giving some Savage reassurance
I'm not in favor of bullying anyone, readers; however, I'm even less in favor of a lying, war-mongering, war-criminal government and its mouthpiece media ramming this agenda down our throats.
Want to highlight bullying? Start writing stories about the ISRAELIS TREATMENT of PALESTINIANS! That is the EPITOME of a BULLY!
