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Student Escorted to High School by Police and Suspended for This ‘Disturbing’ Facebook Post — But Is It Really?

Dec. 20, 2012 8:30pm Jason Howerton

Every year, Georgia high school school student John George III dresses up as Santa Claus in an effort to spread some holiday cheer. This year he wanted to hand out candy to his fellow classmates.

On Tuesday, the 16-year-old promised his peers a “big surprise” in a post on his Facebook page, assuming that they would know he was referring to his annual Christmas tradition. “Let the games begin,” he wrote at the end of his message — a signature he reportedly includes on several of his posts.

That was enough cause for one concerned Crawford County High School parent to call the police, who showed up at John’s door later that night. On Wednesday morning, police officers escorted the teen to the principal’s office of his high school, where he was told that he would be suspended from school indefinitely — until he was told otherwise.

John George III Suspended for Disturbing Facebook Post, Planned to Dress Up Like Santa

John George III (WMAZ-TV)

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John’s father, John George Jr., told the Telegraph that his son is hurt and embarrassed after the incident. He added that school officials overreacted to the Facebook post.

“It’s very unfair,” the father said. “They took it the wrong way.”

John George III says he will never look at Christmas the same way again and has reportedly asked his father a number of times whether he is going to jail.

“He feels that he was done wrong, and he doesn’t really understand it all yet,” George said.

“…taking something innocent like this and turning it into, like, World War II, it’s ridiculous,” his son, George III, told WMAZ.

But officials at Crawford County High School believe they acted with the necessary caution, especially after the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. last week. In that shooting, 20 children and six adults were killed before the shooter, Adam Lanza, took his own life.

Police Capt. Trent Anderson said officers merely responded to an alarmed parent’s call on Tuesday night and went to the George resident to investigate.

“The prank was that he was going to dress up in a Santa outfit,” Anderson said. “We didn’t find any wrongdoing, so we turned it over to the school.”

Superintendent John Douglas said following an investigation, the school will hold a hearing after the Christmas break. In a statement, the school reportedly called the Facebook post “disturbing.”

“If I had to do it over again, we’d do the same thing, just to be cautious,” Douglas added. He went on to say that it would be tragic if “we knew about this ahead of time, and we did nothing, and something happened.”

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Tri-ox
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:43pm
When will people learn? In obama’s sharia-America, CHRISTMAS and free speech have been outlawed. Pharaoh Hussein’O has spoken!

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:17pm
  Someone “out” the rat.
  What is the identity of the “concerned parent” who called the police?
  Someone INVESTIGATE this paranoid delusional nutcase who called
  about a facebook posting by a santa claus
  
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- StandingOnMyHead
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:40pm
  How about a little lawsuit for defamation of character against the overzealous parent, law enforcement, school administration and school board if they allow the administration to get away with this. Sue them all…
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:49pm
  Back up!
  
  The parent did nothing wrong. They had a legitimate concern and did the proper thing! The police did the appropriate thing. The investigation was done, found to be unfounded, and assured the school nothing was amiss.
  The problem is the damned idiots at the school! there is nothing to be disciplined for. That is total B.S. from some one that is too full of themselves!
  More sensitive my ****, go talk to Doctor Phil about your psycho babble!
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:50am
  “We’re not trying to hurt this kid,” he said. “We want to make a learning experience out of this. We want all of us to learn a little something. Everyone’s got to be more sensitive to what’s going on around us.”
  
  You are hurting this kid. The lesson is that some school officials are tards. We are pretending to learn too, but we are tards and don’t really care. Drop the “sensitive” BS and realize you are acting like villains and educrats with this TOTAL lack of logic or mercy!!!
  
  Investigate the matter? Heck yes! Suspend an innocent teen? Only if you are a tard!
  
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- USAMama
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:11am
  I agree with YouGottaBeKidding, the parent probably doesn’t know this kid or that he planned on dressing up like Santa (wouldn’t have been my first guess, just sayin’…). She did the right thing. The police showed up and found nothing and determined it safe. They should have ended it there, escorting him to school is a little much but I guess they felt it necessary. I dont blame them for wanting to be cautious. Where it got crazy is the school suspending him AFTER learning it was a misunderstanding.
  
  I know we all want to go back to a safer time when these things didn’t happen. Where kids were safe at school, God and morals openly taught and kids having respect and common sense. But as my uncle used to say “put a wish in one hand and sh** in the other. Wait a half hour and see what you get.” To just wish for happy days and pretend we live in a world where all kids have hearts of gold would be foolish. The smartest thing Satan ever did was convince people he didn’t exist. Don’t fall for it, he does and he’s getting to our kids because we’re not protecting them spiritually. This time was a false alarm, next time it might not be. We can do our best to reprogram but it’s gonna take a lot of time and won’t be easy. In the meantime we need to accept the fact that the progressives have successfully brought us to this point and do our best to keep our own families and communities safe.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:23am
  Obey the collective, you cannot look at the individual. What if he had a message about the origin of the candy cane to pass out with them? We cannot take the chance! After what happened in Connecticut, we MUST destroy every kid someone claims to be fearful of.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:33am
  As much as I dislike lawyers…I think I would be talking to one!!!
  
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- Dragon4Freedom
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:42am
  There is a law in this land against “Double Jeapoardy”. The School Gestapo turned this matter over to the police who found it without merit. And now they want it back and are pushing their abuse of power. This calls for prosecution on grounds of ciminal malfease on the part of the Principal and any other administrator that is involved. There is no legal question that this is a matter of PERSECUTION of the young man. As for the person who filed the complaint, the law ALSO Guarantees the right to face your accuser… This young man is being denied his rights that are GUARANTEED him under te US CONSTITUTION, that holds bond over any and ALL State and Local laws codes or ordinances. If any of you disagree or dislke this take it to China or North Korea where you will fit in.
  
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- UnknownUser1
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:52am
  The Kingdom of Ur Will Rise again cchs!
  Thats what he meant.
  im just kidding
  
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- HappyConservative
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:14am
  Facebook needs to be shut down. This is getting ridiculous. People getting fired, losing their businesses and now this – all over a post on @#$@ Facebook!!! Freedom of speech is gone anyway so FB needs to go away so we attempt to return to normalcy!
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:54am
  Dragon4Freedom
  He was not jugded guilty or not guilty in a court of law.
  
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- Marcia
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:03am
  When will people learn: Facebook is NOT your friend. ANYTHING you say, no matter how innocent can be misconstrued. Get off this treadmill and live YOUR lives!
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:09am
  Once they saw what was in his bag and found out his plan was good ole fashion Christmas celebrating why did they suspend him. THE fEDEREAL INDOCTRINATION CENTER IS AS UNAMERICAN AS KARL MARX OR ALL THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIS IDEOLOGY
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:23am
  Everyone did the right thing EXCEPT the school. Once the police determined there was no merit, the school had no reason to suspend him.
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 11:01am
  This is why I don’t believe in giving out personal information like your real name on the internet. Technically the authorities can get that stuff anyways, but for just anyone to make a mountain out of the slightest thing while knowing who you are is dangerous. Now he’ll have this with him forever over nothing.
  
  It’s time we turn Bookface into yet another fad like MyVacuousSpace. Wake up, people.
  
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- needawhitepresident
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 11:06am
  In this day and age, and considering the message written (there was no further explanation that he just wanted to come to school dressed as Santa), one can understand how it could be misperceived. I don’t blame the parent who reported it to police. I also don’t blame the police for investigating, but that’s as far as this should have gone. (Those of you calling for the outing of the parent should think again – what if this had indeed been a serious threat and everyone ignored it?)
  
  But police escorting him to school? What’s up with that?! I do blame the school principle for choosing to suspend a good student for such a small misunderstanding. He should never have been suspended! Bad Call! The student should have been made aware of how others could misconstrue his Facebook message as something ominous and be told to think about that, keep it in mind. End of story. Suspension was going way overboard.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:11pm
  @ happyconservative
  
  “Facebook needs to be shut down. This is getting ridiculous. People getting fired, losing their businesses and now this – all over a post on @#$@ Facebook!!! Freedom of speech is gone anyway so FB needs to go away so we attempt to return to normalcy!”
  
  Facebook had nothing to do with the misactions taken against this kid. Facebook is nothing but a 1980s BBS in an internet age. This kid posted something, a concerned parent saw it and reported it, the police checked it out and figured it was OK, should have been end of story. If you have a beef with anything in this, it should be the school, not facebook.
  
  Your blaming facebook is just like idiots blaming guns for a criminal shooting a bunch of kids.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:15pm
  @ marcia
  
  “When will people learn: Facebook is NOT your friend. ANYTHING you say, no matter how innocent can be misconstrued. Get off this treadmill and live YOUR lives!”
  
  How is facebook a cause of this? ANYTHING you say HERE ON THE BLAZE, no matter how innocent, can be misconstrued as well. If facebook shares information routinely with the feds or is an arm of the CIA or whatever, fine, then rightly so jump on them, but to try and place blame simply because you don’t like them is misguided.
  
  Had this kid wrote his post on a piece of paper and pinned it to a cork bulletin board in the local Kroger store where a concerned parent saw it and reported it, would you blame the cork bulletin board?
  
  Geesh!
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:31pm
  “How is facebook a cause of this?”
  By encouraging people to give out personal information like their real name, along with any random trivial thoughts and feelings, on the internet. I don’t blame the kid in this, other than for a minor mistake of poor word choice. If he’d said this merely among people who knew him nobody would have done this. But like so many currently (just like previously with the MyVacuuousSpace fad), he was duped into this “hey it’s okay, post whatever online, no consequences!” nonsense. “Everybody’s doing it, it MUST be okay!!11″
  
  Sigh.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:57pm
  @ bonesiii
  
  “But like so many currently (just like previously with the MyVacuuousSpace fad), he was duped into this “hey it’s okay, post whatever online, no consequences!” nonsense. “Everybody’s doing it, it MUST be okay!!11″
  
  I’ve never seen anywhere on facebook where one is encouraged to post whatever online and there are no consequences. Perhaps I don’t use the “right” places on facebook? If you use facebook, please let me know where these statements and/or areas are and I’ll agree with you.
  
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- steelpanther
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:23pm
  The thought police strike again.
  
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- Faith1029
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:34pm
  If I had a child in school and found out about that statement, I most certainly would have contacted the authorities. You cannot take a chance anymore. Too many kids out there strung out on drugs and violence. We no longer live in Leave it to Beaver Days. These are not the days of getting in trouble for chewing gum and talking in class. Imagine the outcry if this was a violent act. What if your child was in that school and you heard about it, would you still feel this is an infringement on our rights? It’s unfortunate but because of what has become of this society, people have to watch what they say.
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 2:38am
  “I’ve never seen anywhere on facebook where one is encouraged to post whatever online and there are no consequences. Perhaps I don’t use the “right” places on facebook? If you use facebook, please let me know where these statements and/or areas are and I’ll agree with you.”
  You don’t pay attention to the news? Stories like this happen all the time. This is why a basic code of online behavior was figured out more than a decade ago — you don’t put personal information on the internet.
  
  Sadly Facebook has (unintentionally or not) led a vast number of people to join carelessly and post carelessly, ignorant of this. How often do you hear people who urge others to join Facebook telling them to be careful not to give out their name or talk about any other personal information?
  
  Well, it might happen occasionally, but to the vast majority of them, the very idea of it seems absurd. Facebook’s all about that. It’s even enshrined in the name. No, it’s just “Oh you must join ‘cuz everybody’s doin’ it!” and if someone raises the concern, it’s “oh there’s settings that handle that stuff, don’t worry about it”. Stats claim that the vast majority of teen users don’t even use those settings anyways. They’re encouraged implicitly not to. And even if they do, if you’re posting personal information, you can’t guarantee it won’t go out anywhere in the world; it is the worldwide web after all.
  
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WiseFox
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:34pm
So everyone must now shut up and not give anything to anyone, or else some people will “take you to the fuhrer”. 2012 America.

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- DarkJello
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:51am
  You gots it! These school officials must feel real important. Abusive and dumb!
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:01am
  The parent who called the cops did the right thing. If this had ended in a school shooting and that parent did nothing then I can only imagine te blame that parent would have felt. When the cops found nothing to be amiss they should have left it there. Why after realizing everything was fine would the police go to the school? Why would they find it necessary to take the parenting away from the parents and give the responsibility instead to the school? That makes no sense…there was nothing wrong yet you get a school involved with what is clearly the parents area of this child’s life.
  
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- angelcat
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:02am
  Yup! Obama wants the government to be the only source of freebies so that Democrats will continue to be elected to insure the freebies continue and so the government becomes all powerful. He loves being benefactor-in – chief (only to his chosen groups, of course.)
  
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StandingOnMyHead
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:33pm
A country run amok!

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- Janet056
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:39pm
  Damn nutcase panic stricken whackos….soon just say boo, and someone will be at your door.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:51pm
  Let the games begin…oops
  
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brigott
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:25pm
The police “…didn’t find any wrongdoing, so [they] turned it over to the school.”

WHY?

If there was no wrongdoing, why did the police escort him to school and turn him over to them? They should have just told him to have fun, and then they should have gone home.

Sounds like over-reach on the part of both the police AND the school.

And once he was at school without any weapons, why would he be suspended? They new by then that he was not a threat.

Sounds like a lack of intelligence on the part of some individuals there, too.

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- MDECKER
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:33pm
  The only thing most school officials are good at is, calling in sick and protesting at a State Capital.
  
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Jim in NJ
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:23pm
We are well on our way to people being arrested for “thinking of something that may be interpreted by someone as a threat.” We have become so hypersensitive and paranoid as a society people will soon be arrested for the most mundane things. I mean even now we are so over regulated and there are so many laws on the books you can’t go a single day without breaking some sort of law or regulation…

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- John 1776
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:40pm
  On our way? We are already there.
  
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biblegeek119
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:21pm
The fact that people still use the fbibook is beyond me.

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docmacs411
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:19pm
I think he was suspended for wanting to hand out candy…that is a NO NO in school these days.

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- pagraywolf
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:16pm
  Not in all schools! In the district I live in, teachers gave out candy and baked sweets to the students today. Rural schools are the only public schools remaining that use common sense.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:19pm
These days I can understand a parent who might freak out. But, the police should maintain some semblance of sanity. I’ve worked some investigations in past, and ASKING questions is a great place to start.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:29pm
  Yes, true.
  
  But the police & school looking at his previous posts & actions as a baseline should have known better like you said..
  
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jungle J
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:13pm
public schools are sewers.

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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:19pm
  Don’t insult sewers like that please.
  
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geminimoon
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:08pm
First, I’d be finding out the parent that called the police and give them an old fashioned a$$ beating they deserve, then after spending my 3 days in jail for assault, I’d withdraw my children from that school and tell them to kiss off!!!

Is this really what our once great nation has come to???
So sad to see this kind of crap happening, and for no reason what so ever!

The spreading of fear propaganda by the failed government is pathetic! I’d don’t even know how these people can wake up and face themselves in a mirror!
And the media, they will stop at nothing to spread that fear mongering as long as possible regardless of any truth in the matter, anything for a story. As long as that story supports the failed governments spreading of said fear.

Our public schools are a total joke and the government has failed us all in the name of greed, to line their pockets…

I’m almost embarrassed to admit I’m a veteran and an American citizen…

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- Dr Vel
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:44pm
  Is it any wonder kids crack under the strain from time to time. Imagine being a kid in a locked down gestapo run nightmare where every thought or action is suspect and strip searches, suspension, and police visits abound over the slightest nothing. They are kids and they must be allowed to be happy, be themselves, have a good time. In short, allowed to just be kids. Spending day after day in oppression not seen since Alcatraz fearful of every thought action or word, even if that word was written in their own privacy outside the school. Punished without a crime and humiliated not to mentioned frightened out of their wits that they are going to jail for merely wishing to have some holiday cheer. Think about it, what is this fear and oppression doing to their minds. They cannot emotionally deal with the pressure. Is it no wonder some are driven to act out in extreme ways. I cannot believe any parent would send their children to a place like this instead of home schooling. No doubt the pressure never ends even when home they are still living in the paranoia and fear drilled into them day by day.
  
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- RightWingLeftyGolfer
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:10pm
  @Geminimoon – NEVER, EVER regret being a veteran of this once great nation!!
  
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RisetovotesiR
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:06pm
they did the right thing. the post was threatening, and the concern was real. what a weird kid. imagine the ridicule he goes through. dressing up for the holidays in school and handing out candy is abnormal. he must have some problems. he likes batman after all, everyone knows dc comics are for the mentally incompetent.

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- geminimoon
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:14pm
  Are you freeking serious!!! His comment was “threatening”? And you call him “weird, abnormal, has problems and is mentally incompetent…”
  
  You must be a real POS! Your comment makes you the poster child of everything that’s wrong in our country today!!!
  
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- THXll38
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:22pm
  You sound like a liberal sissy.
  
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- brigott
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:27pm
  Gemini,
  
  It’s spelled s-a-r-c-a-s-m. Ever heard of it before?
  
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- geminimoon
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:45pm
  brigott,
  I’m well aware of what sarcasm is and in this case I just don’t see it, nor do I believe it.
  You see and hear people make comments like risetovotesir made every single day and I’m sick of it!!!
  
  Although you have given risetovotesir an easy out if they get too much crap for their comment.
  
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- RisetovotesiR
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:51pm
  gemini do you read dc? then sorry. otherwise i stand by my statements.
  
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- RisetovotesiR
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:01am
  the new world order is here, and will be regardless.
  
  logic prevails over superstition.
  
  good bye, have fun?
  
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- Lonescrapper
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:42am
  Gemini – you have just proved yourself guilty of the very same thing the article is about. It makes you look a teensy bit hypocritical. Have you called the FBI on the original poster yet?
  
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SerikFox
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:04pm
It should have been very easy to check and see if he was a danger. This is great overreaction on the school’s part.

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johnsell
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:01pm
Welcome to your new Big Brother freedoms and inane leftist inept reactions world………can’t have or announce BIG Surprise Parties anymore……morons!

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aproudinfidel
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:00pm
So, another phrase becomes politically incorrect…what is America coming to?

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Lucifers Hammer
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:57pm
Libs are now afraid of their own shadows. Beware. If a castrophy should occur, they are like a drowning person. They will be a quivering mess and will drown you in an instant trying to stay afloat.

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Walkabout
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:54pm
John George III did nothing wrong. He made no threats cryptic or otherwise. He is a good kid.

Note that this story mentions that he has a FATHER!

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- circleDwagons
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:45am
  He has a father and he is getting an education. I pray others learn.
  
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Tankboy2adfwd
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:53pm
Having the police investigate the comments was the right thing to do. They were very vague, could have meant anything, and sounded ominous to at least one parent. When it was found to be a misunderstanding on the part of the alarmed parties, it should have ended right there. Suspension is utterly ridiculous. It seems to me that the school administration is determined to make a big issue out of a non issue. Maybe they feel embarrassed that they raised alarms and are trying to save face? Maybe the administration got themselves so worked up over the comments that they don’t believe the perspective of the police that no wrongdoing was done? At any rate, it boils down to the administration acting stupidly. Can someone say infringement on free speech?

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FatManChew
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:52pm
This is typical liberal stupidity. When criminals do bad things liberals find excuses for why they did it but punish the law abiding citizens because of their liberal fears.

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- THXll38
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:24pm
  I am surprised that the libs didn’t get all upset because he was celebrating Christmas in a public school.
  
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Thoth
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:51pm
Ahh yes, the inevitable witch hunt for the boogie man of our nightmares. Must we over-react every single time we have a horrifying tragedy like Newton, CT?

Our local high-school just did a similar thing by asking teachers if there were any students that they thought were ‘odd’ or ‘acting strange’ .. Its high school! Of course they rattled off the strange quiet kid who seems like such a loaner. When the brought him out of class for an interview, all the students starting gossiping that he at threatened to blow up the school, or something like that.

Yes, it is good to vigilant, but we need to use our heads too. The Newtown shooter was a deeply disturbed mental patient who does not feel emotional or physical pain, and does not relate to the world the way we do. There is nothing to understand here … there is no ‘reason’ to be had. So let’s stop the lynch mobs from trying to rat out every introverted kid on campus (or in this case an extroverted one), and take a bit more care.

Before you know it, they will want to take away all the guns in country … oh wait… yeah, they are already working on that too…

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PASSIONFORCHRIST
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:49pm
Inept people! So this phrase is going to bring the law down on you! Free Speech, What Free Speech?

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- Cavy2see
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:25pm
  This poor kid…does a fun thing every year…Santa is booted out for another reason…sad world…
  
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rickbob
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:46pm
“. . .the school reportedly called the Facebook post “disturbing.” and suspended him indefinitely after an investigation revealed NOTHING!! The young man has never been in trouble and has been playing Santa for years. The folks in the school system are in for a big surprise. . .

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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:21pm
  I’m not normally a fan of lawsuits, but in this case, I hope some lawyer contacts this kid and his family and teaches these school officials a lesson.
  
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:46pm
Why do they think the kid needs to learn a lesson? Perhaps the school and police could learn a lesson with this. They are making problems where there wasn’t one, before.

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- kenboo1
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:04pm
  We are going down the long dark road that evil intent has placed us on… After several school shootings and numerous other follies one might just want to stop seeking to hint at a surprise on face book. Why even bother with facebook. How many people have screwed up posting something on facebook and was terminated from their job, kicked out of school, etc…. After extreme events paranoia takes hold…
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:25pm
  @ kenb001
  
  “Why even bother with facebook. How many people have screwed up posting something on facebook and was terminated from their job, kicked out of school, etc….”
  
  Well, an argument can be made that it helps rid places of stupid people :)
  Facebook is fine for what it is … a small community enveloped by a global community … in effect, a BBS from the 1980s on steroids.
  
  “After extreme events paranoia takes hold”
  
  This is what disturbs me … the more they can keep the paranoia up, the better chance of getting “we the people” to agree to give up some liberty in exchange for a little security.
  
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1TrueOne55
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:45pm
At this rate Home Schooling will make a big comeback and their will be no children for the state taxpayers to be taxed for… Win Win for Christianity and Conservatives.

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- BasketFullOfPuppies
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:06pm
  Although I’m a strong believer in the value of homeschooling, do we really want a bunch of progressives teaching their children the same carp at home, that they get in school? Let’s keep homeschooling as the conservative backup plan for the future…. lol
  
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- integrican
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:17pm
  They are already taking steps to outlaw home schooling. They are going down the road of “degrees and certificates” of the parents. It doesn’t matter if your kid scores a perfectly on his ACT or SAT or other standardized tests, if the parent doesn’t have the”right” degree or certificate, the kid loses and must report for his daily “dumbing down” regiment.
  
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:40pm
I hate facebook for soooooo many reasons. I “get” why someone’s parent might have misunderstood what the kid really meant, but it looks like the start of some “witch-hunting” here in the U.S.A. Maybe these kids who voted for 0bama will start getting harrassed enough to take a step back and recognize how their rights are being infringed upon every day by this Prezzie’s socialist agenda. One can only wish…

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- karen162
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:53pm
  I really wish Progressives would get a grip. Good heavens, the Progressives put out the violent movies, and then when the kids use one of the lines as a tag line, they freak out and call the kid unstable. But its the violent movies and video games that are making them unstable. Vicious little cycle they have us all caught in. Lovely.
  
  Just arm the freakin’ teachers so parents won’t flip out every time someone posts something to facebook.
  
  BTW: Just because the school, parent and Police were edgy, is NO REASON to suspend him. I am sick to death of the insanity in this country.
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:54pm
  They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  
  Benjamin Franklin
  
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- Cavy2see
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:30pm
  remember when everyone used groovy and far out…that was about drugs at first…just saying words from a movie doesn’t make you a killer…free speach…sad…we have to have more communication not less…mentally illness needsto have help…this kid wants fun for the last day of school…Merry Christmas…God Bless…
  
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Exiled
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:39pm
This is what happens in the “Education Machine”. Teachers aren’t allowed to get to know their students at all. Administrators see students as just another number. Any adult at that school that knew this kid would have known what he was talking about.

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