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Pro-Life Student Reportedly Threatened With Expulsion — And You’ll Never Believe Why

Feb. 28, 2013 9:00pm

Pro-life students at DePaul University recently erected an anti-abortion display to mark the 40th anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case. While they were intent on exercising their free-speech rights, their work was inevitably torn down by other pupils at the school who clearly disagreed with the message.

Surprisingly, in the wake of the incident, it’s the head of the conservative campus group responsible for assembling the memorial who’s now in the hot seat. Kristopher DelCampo, 23, could face potential expulsion for publishing the names of his peers who destroyed the flag display.

The student, who chairs the campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, was found guilty by campus officials of two violations: “Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating or Dangerous Behavior to Self or Others” and “Judicial Process Compliance,” Fox News’ Todd Starnes reports.

Kristopher DelCampo Reportedly Threatened With Expulsion Over Pro Life Flag Display Spat

The display before it was destroyed (Photo Credit: Young America’s Foundation)

Ironically, Del Campo came under fire for making public the incident report surrounding the attack on the pro-life memorial. He published the document on the YAF web site — something the university apparently didn’t take too kindly to.

Before we delve too deeply into that portion of the story, let’s take a moment to recap the story from start to finish, in case you missed it when it was originally reported last month. Starnes explains:

[In] January Del Campo and other pro-life students received permission from the university to erect a pro-life display featuring 500 flags. Vandals later destroyed the display – stuffing a number of the flags into trash cans.

The university’s public safety department launched an investigation and eventually identified 13 students who confessed to the crime. Those names were then released by the university to Del Campo.

On Feb. 5 the national Young Americans for Freedom organization posted the names of the vandals on their website. The posting generated negative comments directed at the vandals – and the university held Del Campo responsible.

So, Del Campo, a psychology major, is apparently being held accountable for the negative comments that were waged against the perpetrators. Ten days after the posting of the names went public, the student was officially charged with violating the schools “Code of Student Responsibility.”

Naturally, representatives from YAF and other groups are speaking out with dismay that Del Campo is being punished when he was initially the victim of the crime.

Pete Bonilla, a staff member at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is among those defending the student. In a letter, he wrote to DePaul’s president, noting that the publication of names of students who have already confessed to vandalizing shouldn’t warrant such a harsh response.

Kristopher DelCampo Reportedly Threatened With Expulsion Over Pro Life Flag Display Spat

An image of the display stuffed into the trash (Photo Credit: Young America’s Foundation)

“The 13 DePaul students named in the public safety report admitted not only to vandalizing YAF’s display but also planning to do so,” Bonilla’s letter read. “Students who purposefully vandalize the works of other students should not expect to be shielded from the public consequences of their actions.”

But so far the university has reportedly been less-than-accommodating. In an e-mail obtained by Starnes, Del Campo was purportedly threatened with disciplinary action, including expulsion, if he didn’t comply with a request for silence on the matter.

“It is unfortunate that this incident is part of your educational career,” Dean of Students Art Munin wrote to Del Campo. “Any further infractions of the Code of Student Responsibility during your probationary period may result in additional disciplinary action including removal from the university.”

Despite this warning, the student is speaking with Fox and telling his side of the story.

“The dean told me not to fight — he told me it wasn’t worth it — that I just have 13 weeks left at the university,” the student told Starnes. “But I’m going to fight this. This is wrong. This university has a problem with free speech rights and this time they met a challenger who is not backing down.”

Now, YAF is demanding charges be dropped. Read all of the details here. TheBlaze left a message for a representative at DePaul, but has not yet heard back.

(H/T: Fox News Radio)

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  • zoro51
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:59pm

    SUE the school president n BOARD members for this infraction of being 2 faced.. stand your ground jr… remember LEFTIES exist under OBAMAS SOCIALIST AGENDA every school has them… .. FIGHT FOR AMERICA in this FIGHT for right FIGHT for the RED WHITE N BLUE not the SOCIALIST RED n CICKLE

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:53am

      This is a clear violation of first amendment rights and an attempt by the school to intimidate the pro-life students. Aren’t schools now against bullying, not to mention not actually BEING the bully. I would file a class action suit demanding expulsion for the 13 bullies, resignation by the school president and the entire board of directors or ” ONE BILLION DOLLARS” credit to Dr Evil. Parents do not waste your money on this crap. Your kids can learn to think independently through self study, look to Abraham Lincoln. Why pay 6 digit salaries to people who will indoctrinate your children away from your own core beliefs?

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    • gary kilmer
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:46am

      DMERWIN
      this has nothing to do with the first amendment.

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:40am

      I guess the only reason people are still giving money to these dens of indoctrination is because they themselves are indoctrinated into thinking people have to go to college. Oh well people who support these universities only have themselves to blame for the damage they have done and are doing to our society.

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    • Proverbs17-12NLT
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:32am

      Do as I say young grasshopper, not as I do.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:01am

      The student should also sue for a complete paid-up tuition and books/supplies included! Sue for any rents and transportation( including insurances, car-loan and repairs/maintenance) needed for school. Sue for lunch and other food needed for school. Sue to pay-off any school-loan outstanding.

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    • 00100111
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:30am

      It’s all that “liberal tolerance” we all hear so much about.

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    • Dreary_LN
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:31am

      DePaulPresidentsOffice@depaul.edu Send the emails.

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    • Silvertruth
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:22am

      It’s really not a first amendment issue. Once the school concluded the investigation and released the names to Del Campo, they themselves officially placed the offenders names into the public sphere. Del Campo as the victim is not entitled to the names until the school deems them suitable for public release.

      So his case rests not on free speech but on due process. They cannot condemn him for publishing their names when they ‘published’ them to him. They don’t have a case to begin with. Just like a reporter cannot be held liable for what people do based on what they report (as long as they don’t ‘fire up’ the reader in some fashion) Del Campo is protected from what others did or threatened to do so long as he was using a neutral voice when he published the names.

      Not only is the University wrong but I’d expect F.I.R.E to be stepping in any moment now.

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    • J. Locke
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:13pm

      If it was Christians passing out fliers, the ACLU would have a lawsuit up and ready to go. Time to use their playbook. Sue the school

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    • Truth_is_Relative
      Posted on March 4, 2013 at 11:08pm

      If I remember correctly, DePaul is a private university and may therefore conduct their institution however they wish. The Constitution does not dictate how individual entities conduct business other than that the federal government not infringe on their rights. Were it a public university, he may have a chance, but this will never even make it before judge, very likely. Think about it before you start calling hellfire down upon them.

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:52pm

    Fire all school administrators and teaching staff! Then – rehire all the ones who are determined to have common sense.

    Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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    • Caniac Steve
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:06pm

      for a bunch of “educated & enlightened” college administrators they sure have their heads up their butts and miss common sense aspects of Free Speech..but they want to control it..so much for “tolerance” of differewnt/opposing views huh ?

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:59am

      Steve, I’ll break this to you gently. The only first amendment rights honored on college campuses are those of the indoctrinators. Or in the words of my Drill Sergeant, “if I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you!” Yet he actually had the balls to EARN our respect and question stupidity.

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    • Locked
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:09pm

      The right to free speech isn’t being violated here. The first amendment protects you from the government arresting you for speaking your mind. This isn’t the government, but a private university; this isn’t an arrest, but a potential expulsion.

      I doubt Del Campo WILL get expelled, but this has nothing to do with the first amendment. The key questions to ask are:
      1. Why did Del Campo receive the list of names, and
      2. Was he given any instructions or guidance on how they should or should not be used?

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    • Truth_is_Relative
      Posted on March 4, 2013 at 11:16pm

      Hey genius, if you owned a business and did not want people coming in with T-shirts that read “Jesus Sucks” on them, then you have every right not to serve them or allow them into your establishment. The First Amendment DOES have limitations, and does not extend to private homes/businesses/etc. There may be a civil rights case here (unlikely), but most lawyers would choose a taking a bath with lepers than take the case….if they have any sense. First Amendment law is more complicated than, “Hey, I have freedom of speech, dammit!” You don’t have as many freedoms as you’d like to think.

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  • Zeke48
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:46pm

    I would finish the eight weeks and get your what is yours, after write a book about these morons, and with the $$$ you earn on the book pay off your student loans and the story is out. That would fix them just great and put some money in your pocket to open up your Practice Doctor. Best of luck. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.

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  • FLOWNOVERandFORGOTTEN
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:40pm

    Isn’t the full name of this university St,Vincent Du Paul? It’s the largest CATHOLIC university in Chicago. I guess Chicago trumps Catholicism in this case, So now you can’t even have a pro-life display at a catholic university?

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  • petemg
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:26pm

    And yet teachers are allowed to have math games with slavery history, teach the children that there were terrorists at 9/11 they were just people started the much needed change, the children are taught the Obama is the great one…Need not go on as Obama continues a take over.

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  • Libertyluvnmomma
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:20pm

    Posting those names is like using stocks in the good ol’ days.
    Public shame serves as a powerful reminder.

    Since that kid is a psychology major I am sure he knew what he was doing. Your sin will find you out.
    I’ll bet it was the mommies and daddies of the guilty who complained the loudest.
    Boohoo Little Sally Muchenfutch and her post industrial commie friends.
    Where’s the hate crime allegations?

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    • cnsrvtvj
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:23pm

      Couldn’t agree more.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:35pm

      So it is a crime to post names of people that have perpetuated a crime and admit it, but not a crime for a paper to post the names of gun owners that have not committed a crime. What am I missing?
      These people are really screwed up!!!!!

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  • ConservativeNotRepublican
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:04pm

    Freedom of speech no longer applies to people with conservative views.

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    • TH777
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:53pm

      @Conservagtivenotrepublican: My thoughts EXACTLY!! What a freakin scarey world we are living in.

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  • Listen_then_think
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:02pm

    I hope he sues the crap out of them and wins.

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  • Patriot72
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:56pm

    For anyone who wants to lend a supportive voice to this young man here is DePaul University’s contact info for the president of the university, Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider

    Office of the President
    1 East Jackson Boulevard
    Chicago, IL 60604-2287
    (312) 362-8850
    DePaulPresidentsOffice@depaul.edu

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    • glckgrl
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:45pm

      Thank you. I will send him a letter. Chicago should be renamed Alienville because the logic does not seem human. Punish the man who stands up for unborn children being murdered via the first amendment, to pacify the criminals who vandalized a memorial enacted with university approval.

      I wonder which one of the unprosecuted criminal vandal/offender(s) has (have) relatives donating money for a new library or chapel…. where, undoubtedly they will mourn the loss of aborted children.

      Hypocrisy in Chicago? Surely it is an aberration.

      If I bet, I would bet a tutu that the creepy ballerina is involved.

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  • ABRAXUS
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:50pm

    What do you expect from chicago. They should wall off the whole state .

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    • Pistol_Packin_Mama
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:42pm

      I agree. I think Chicago is actually a portal to hell. Look at all the corrupt and hateful people associated with it or they are from there: Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton (she grew up there), The Daley family, Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Sal Alinsky, Al Capone, Frank Marshal Davis,Valerie Jarrett, Arne Duncan, Jan Schakowsky, Robert Creamer, Bobby Rush, Luis Vicente Gutiérrez, and Jesse Jackson, Jr. and this is not a complete list. Now do you believe Chicago is a portal to hell?

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    • xcapeillinois
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:42am

      Wait a minute, Illinois is a big state, and slightly less than half the population is trapped here.
      Chicago delenda est.

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  • The Big Mick
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:49pm

    “Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating or Dangerous Behavior to Self”????
    Hell Proff! Undergrads LIVE to be “dangerous to self!” What an idiodic thing to have on the books!
    There goes Beerbongin and indoor hockey in the halls, and bungi jumping from the admin building and food fights in the cafeteria. Not to mention eating week old leftovers from the fridge.
    Spoil Sports.
    And while undergrads also live for being Disorderly and Violent–ESPECIALLY DisORDERly, How the H ell does one “intimidate” oneself?

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    • Zipit
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:10pm

      Hey Mick! I just realized that we went to different colleges together!

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  • jmmjr49er
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:44pm

    DePaul is a Catholic School. Or maybe it isn’t…

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  • Dougral Supports Israel
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:41pm

    The vandals are obviously old enough to face the consequences of their actions even if it results in personal embarrassment. The university is wrong to protect them.

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    • seek.the.truth
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:20pm

      Amen dougral!
      Still lucky enough to have a local newspaper here where I live, and the police blotter is published regularly including names and ages. A little personal embarrassment is absolutely appropriate, not to mention the rights of the public to know who the troublemakers are.

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    • glckgrl
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:51pm

      Those felons-in-training should be prosecuted for vandalism, disturbing the peace and conspiracy to commit a hate crime (vandalism). After all, through their own admission, the destructors not only destroyed the memorial, they met about their mutual intention to destroy the memorial, thus the conspiracy of a hate crime. The hypocrisy of such magnitude would happen in Chicago… little thugs getting away with crime, once again. But yeah, go after the person trying to protect the unborn. I imagine Heavenly Father weeps over this one…

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:37pm

    Okay, my first thought regards the Rutgers homosexual student who committed suicide after video exposed the act on social media. I attempted to find something along this line in the search engine regarding DePaul’s rules. A couple of hits came up first DePaul itself, but nothing on this rule. This was followed by a boatload of other schools with related exposure rules.
    Then I simply cut and pasted “DePaul Code of Student Responsibility” into the search engine. Came up with that in total. Its rather short and almost vague. Unless the Code has been rewritten since this was posted it really does not contain a rule to cover what DelCampo is being held to. It does cover this cut and paste of the subtitle, “Damage to Personal or Private Property.” To which the other students don’t seem to be required to follow. I could be wrong on that since it was not discussed above in any detail.
    Here is the link to the complete Code. The subtitles are in the column to the left.
    http://www.depaul.edu/university-catalog/academic-handbooks/code-of-student-responsibility/general-information/Pages/default.aspx

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  • 3monkeysmomma
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:36pm

    Wow. This is a really big handbasket we are all going to hell in!

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  • DZ-015
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:31pm

    Tear ‘em a new one, Kristopher!

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  • seek.the.truth
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:29pm

    Ironic that this began with a group of students exercising their right to free speech. Yep ……..

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  • Fubared
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:28pm

    We are so screwed with these entrenched, tenured, duplicitous lib bastid professors.
    http://conservapedia.com/Main_Page

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  • kindling
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:28pm

    They throw away those flags just like they throw away babies produced by recreational sex.

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:57pm

      Recreational sex??
      As opposed to what”
      Sex 2 or 3 times in one life.?
      Is that you Santorum?

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    • avgconservative
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:02am

      Voceofreason:

      Maybe you should change your name to, “Voice of Idiot” or perhaps “Voice of Obamabot” or perhaps “Voice of I don’t give a $hit if I kill another baby.” Yeah… I like that last one the best.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:36am

      Verceofreason

      Santorum I am sure has had sex more than 2 or 3 times. He has around 5 kids. It takes on average 3 months of trying for a woman to conceive. We are easily talking triple or quadruple digits here.

      Sex is pretty darn good. But with Democrats in charge of every aspect of a person’s life, sex will be the highpoint of a person’s life. Think about that.

      Is that conservatives don’t have sex much or that they are careful because there are consequences?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:25am

      Versace of treason- is that you Marilyn Chambers?

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  • I_AM_HARRISON_BERGERON
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:25pm

    So, Del Campo is facing expulsion for violating the schools “Code of Student Responsibility”. But it seems that refraining from vandalism is not a responsibility that they expect from there students.
    Almost sounds like they are saying that it’s game on if you want to trash the place as long as you apologize afterward.
    I guess that if they are okay with destroying an unborn baby then they are just fine with destroying a flag display. Oh, that’s right… If you destroy a baby then you are heralded for being courageous.

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  • civilwarcometh
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:22pm

    “The dean told me not to fight — he told me it wasn’t worth it — that I just have 13 weeks left at the university,” the student told Starnes. “But I’m going to fight this. This is wrong. This university has a problem with free speech rights and this time they met a challenger who is not backing down.” <<< This gives me hope that all is not lost yet. We have the fight in us and we will not sit back and go quietly.. I still can't believe the murder of children was ever allowed. You can't murder your own children and expect good things to come of it…

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    • glckgrl
      Posted on March 4, 2013 at 9:59pm

      I have held and cried grieving people who believed the liberal lies until they felt their baby dying and could not stop it. These people are traumatized every day of their lives and do not dare to speak their regret and sorrow that caused them to beg God for forgiveness because many people still think that repentant woman in her 50′s should suffer and die for being an 18 year old who believed the lie their doctor said and Planned Parenthood confirmed, that it was just a bunch of cells, not a baby, and then they learned the truth through a very painful experience. These men and women DO suffer, continuously. Although I have listened to many people share the emotional devastation, physical pain and mental torture of abortion, even decades later, I have never heard one of them think it was a good thing. not one. These are the shameful silent and they do not vote for liberal candidates for this very reason. Please consider that with enough compassion and support, the remorseful who mourn the loss of their children would be a powerful voice to dissuade others from following in their footsteps. I pray that this post softens at least one heart. I also pray it provides a little comfort for any post abortive person who reads this post who is grieving, as there are millions. Rachel’s Vineyard is a safe place for people seeking relief from post abortion trauma they carry, days, months, years and decades later. These folk need compassion, love and prayers, not hatred. Please!

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:20pm

    So you vill not speak of dis incident, when asked what you know, you vill say “I Know NOTHING!”, and vhen you see me you vill raise your hand and say Heil CHANCHELLOR. Do you understand?

    Yes Mein Chancellor.

    Now be a good little student and go forth and indoctrinate.

    For you who won’t comply, please come with me to take a shower.

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    • DLV
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:51pm

      Hahahahahaha that is awesome. Yes my fuhrer.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-axJTzj0VU

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:54pm

      DARMOK, I looked up the school’s Code. Didn’t find anything regarding a rule to which DelCampo is being held accountable. But there is certainly one regarding the damage to private property.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:02pm

      @Darmok, that will be the future for this nation under the progressives; the only difference will be the phrasing they use to begin with for disposal of the ‘unproductive’ and those who ‘refuse to conform to the needs of society as a whole.’

      No matter what, it is only a matter of time before blood begins to flow under the Obama admin; watch for the universities to be the starting ground when some conservative students are gunned down on orders of Obama for daring to stand against him and his madness.

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  • Balpit
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:18pm

    Report vandalism, get expelled.
    If that’s the case, better not tell the teacher if a student pees in their coffee…

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  • electroencephalographic
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:17pm

    Don’t forget the right of the murdered to pursue happiness.

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  • QuincySmith
    Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:16pm

    You just can’t make up this stuff!

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    • glckgrl
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:59pm

      I wish we didn’t have to, but it is Chicago. Last night I heard a former correctional officer say the Chicago hoods on his watch said they were going back to Chicago as soon as they’re released because they cannot tell who carries in this state.

      Sounds like the criminal destroyers are working out of the Alinsky playbook, rules for radicals. Anything to avoid speaking about the President’s sequestration baby, his family’s separate expensive vacations and the Senate refusing to pass a budget for over four years. Truly vile, isn’t it?

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