By Patrick Doyle

Next time you twirl a pencil may be yr last. You could become a vegetative politically-correct robotic inadvertent tyrant at a flick of the fingers, cracking away at an academic problem or drawing in public. You could be hauled away to a “center” for urine/blood analysis, stripped down and probably deloused. What a good way to start off those wretched teenaged years, being some sort of political prisoner for TWIRLING A PENCIL.

You can’t make this stuff up. Ethan Chaplin, a 7^th grader at Glen Meadow Middle School in New Jersey, was twirling his pencil in class; a grave offense which made another student “feel uncomfortable” and was related to “gun motions.” The school policy is that if any student feels threatened or uncomfortable, it must be investigated by officials. Chaplin’s behavior was a “red flag” as Super Intendant Charles Maranzano told NJ’s local news, which requires his board to “do our duty.”

Apparently duty means stripping Chaplin, giving him blood tests (he passed out), a urinalysis and then having him wait four hours for a social worker to give him five minutes of lip service before sending him on his way. Read it again; this kid got treated like a member of an underground insurgency for TWIRLING A PENCIL. As of now, Chaplin is still suspended from school.

Gee, has no one ever noticed the cunning intellect of a bully? A bully doesn’t need to always pound your face into paste; they can be elusive bastards. This kid probably had someone who thought not too much of him and decided to make a joke that some sleep-deprived automaton took as an absolute emergency which needed to be treated ASAP.

Violence sucks. We get it. Violating the rights of another based on bogus evidence sucks too.

Insanity sucks even more, especially those that cloak themselves in being very “understanding” and “tolerant” yet they hold a kid captive for using an inanimate object in no real particular way, but since we only like guns in the hands of those who can use them as a leverage tool, any other hint of them even existing is met with a degree of craziness I can’t even really grasp; I imagine if I did try to grasp it with a clear head I would get pricked by a zillion thorns, bleeding all over the place. That’s good though, I’d be an easy blood test after some bozo reads this and probably thinks I’m an “advocate” of “violence.”

This, the Pop-Tart incident (where a student ate a Pop-Tart into the “shape of a gun”) and a myriad of others are the problem here. The policing by the tender wolves in sheep clothing is petrifying and I assume probably is giving this entire politically-correct movement a real run for its money. Either that, or there are a bunch of people out there broke as a damn joke.