Friday, June 26, 2009

Yet another episode of "God, we're stupid"

Some Americans are so lacking in common sense and decency that we had to litigate a matter all the way up to the Supreme Court to determine that, yes, it is frakking wrong to strip-search a 13 year old girl in school. And almost as bad, it was over concerns that she was hiding ibuprofen.

Seriously, what kind of stupid policy results in anyone thinking they have the right or responsibility to strip-search a middle schooler?

Of course, one Justice thought it was perfectly okay because apparently the school was one Advil away from anarchy.

But Justice Clarence Thomas took the opposite view: that administrators deserved immunity and that the search was permissible.

"Preservation of order, discipline and safety in public schools is simply not the domain of the Constitution," he said. "And, common sense is not a judicial monopoly or a constitutional imperative."

Seems like common sense has nothing to do with Justice Thomas.

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