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		Father at school board meeting: "I'm not sure this book is appropriate for my daughter to read." School board: "That's interesting, because we're sure you're under arrest for having an opinion about it" (theblaze.com)		364
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fusillade762

2014-05-07 12:06:46 AM

"You are going to arrest me because I violated the two-minute rule?" the father said. "I guess you are going to have to arrest me."

News Flash: if you dare a cop to arrest you they just might.

William Baer was charged with disorderly conduct.

Having an opinion, disorderly conduct. Potayto, potahto.

Here's the passage in question for anyone interested:

"'Relax,' Matt murmured, and then he sank his teeth into her shoulder. He pinned her hands over her head and ground his hips against hers. She could feel his erection, hot against her stomach.

" ... She couldn't remember ever feeling so heavy, as if her heart were beating between her legs. She clawed at Matt's back to bring him closer.

"'Yeah,' he groaned, and her pushed her thighs apart. And then suddenly Matt was inside her, pumping so hard that she scooted backward on the carpet, burning the backs of her legs. ... (H)e clamped his hand over her mouth and drove harder and harder until Josie felt him come.

"Semen, sticky and hot, pooled on the carpet beneath her."

Sid_6.7

2014-05-07 12:10:49 AM

Maybe if he got out of his helicopter he might be a better parent.

King Something

2014-05-07 12:18:53 AM

Non-Breitbart link or the exact opposite happened.

BSABSVR

2014-05-07 1:04:02 AM

Is this another thread where we pretend that time limits at board meetings are somehow new and outrageous?

MaudlinMutantMollusk

2014-05-07 1:42:45 AM

Perspective

meat0918

2014-05-07 1:48:14 AM

BSABSVR: Is this another thread where we pretend that time limits at board meetings are somehow new and outrageous?

Yup.

firefly212

2014-05-07 1:50:17 AM

The two minute rule is so that everyone gets a chance to speak... so ya, you need to follow it... your first amendment rights do not trump everyone elses... they all came because they had stuff to say too. Once you stepped it up by not leaving when the officer asked you too.... well, ya, you're gonna get arrested for that no matter what your opinion is.

Likwit

2014-05-07 1:50:25 AM

fusillade762: "You are going to arrest me because I violated the two-minute rule?" the father said. "I guess you are going to have to arrest me."

News Flash: if you dare a cop to arrest you they just might.

William Baer was charged with disorderly conduct.

Having an opinion, disorderly conduct. Potayto, potahto.

Here's the passage in question for anyone interested:

"'Relax,' Matt murmured, and then he sank his teeth into her shoulder. He pinned her hands over her head and ground his hips against hers. She could feel his erection, hot against her stomach.

" ... She couldn't remember ever feeling so heavy, as if her heart were beating between her legs. She clawed at Matt's back to bring him closer.

"'Yeah,' he groaned, and her pushed her thighs apart. And then suddenly Matt was inside her, pumping so hard that she scooted backward on the carpet, burning the backs of her legs. ... (H)e clamped his hand over her mouth and drove harder and harder until Josie felt him come.

"Semen, sticky and hot, pooled on the carpet beneath her."

I lol'ed. That's just shiatty writing.

TotallyHeadless

2014-05-07 1:51:13 AM

Go on. . .

/kidding

zerkalo

2014-05-07 1:52:34 AM

It was a dark and steamy night...

Caffeine Induced Diarrhea

2014-05-07 1:54:56 AM

BSABSVR: Is this another thread where we pretend that time limits at board meetings are somehow new and outrageous?

This is another thread where we make fun of a stupidly indignant parent.

Kalashinator

2014-05-07 1:55:38 AM

"Feel safe with the amazing credit card knife! Transforms from a 'credit card' into a sharp knife!"

What a bizarre ad about a disorderly conduct arrest at a school.

Kalashinator

2014-05-07 1:56:51 AM

*ad inserted into an article about...yaddayaddayadda

Circusdog320

2014-05-07 1:59:54 AM

Do you know who I am??

I'll have your badge!!!!

Two other things you shouldn't say to a cop

Talondel

2014-05-07 2:00:24 AM

zerkalo: It was a dark and steamy night...

The night was sultry.

studman 69

2014-05-07 2:04:59 AM

Welcome to Obama's America. Your children will be forced to read about explicit sex and if you question us, you will be arrested.

/sarcasm

ScaryBottles

2014-05-07 2:06:38 AM

Yes this is dog

2014-05-07 2:06:48 AM

A troll headline which in no way reflects the actual events in the story in my Fark?

SpdrJay

2014-05-07 2:07:15 AM

The School Board should just have all the students scratch out the word "erection" and replace it with "walkie talkie."

Cerebral Ballsy

2014-05-07 2:08:01 AM

King Something: Non-Breitbart link or the exact opposite happened.

I am so stealing this line. :)

log_jammin

2014-05-07 2:09:15 AM

Yes this is dog: A troll headline which in no way reflects the actual events in the story in my Fark?

next thing you know someone will come along and take the headline at face value then comment without reading the thread or the article.

Kuta

2014-05-07 2:09:25 AM

meat0918: BSABSVR: Is this another thread where we pretend that time limits at board meetings are somehow new and outrageous?

Yup.

$1 zillion dollars says this was the first time this guy ever went to a school board meeting.

/like a boss

Cerebral Ballsy

2014-05-07 2:09:46 AM

This link redirected me to download a shiatty app.

Maynotlast

2014-05-07 2:14:05 AM

"Man Arrested for calling Oprah a coont." My headline only slightly less accurate than subby's. fark You, Subby.

Emposter

2014-05-07 2:14:38 AM

Cerebral Ballsy: This link redirected me to download a shiatty app.

The redirect saved you from visiting Glenn Beck's shiatty site. Consider yourself lucky.

Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy

2014-05-07 2:14:54 AM

9th grade is a little young for required reading involving an explicit sex scene. That's more like junior year material.

/yeah, yeah, I know the kids are already looking at stuff more explicit than that on their own time
//the real crime is how shiatty the writing is

ADHD Librarian

2014-05-07 2:24:21 AM

This is a great story, covers all my favourite areas;clueless parenting, idiots complaining about books, petty functionaries who don't know how to deal with dissent and cops arresting people for non-crimes

+1 would read again

kling_klang_bed

2014-05-07 2:25:15 AM

If I had a kid, I wouldn't want them reading that either. I'd prefer them read:

Crass and Jaded Mother Farker

2014-05-07 2:25:43 AM

Circusdog320: Do you know who I am??

I'll have your badge!!!!

Two other things you shouldn't say to a cop

Telling them that you pay their salary is also not to be recommended.

pete1729

2014-05-07 2:28:52 AM

Would he object to the kids reading 'The Fountainhead'?

andyofne

2014-05-07 2:29:22 AM

We know how to read.

Duane Dibbley

2014-05-07 2:30:20 AM

kling_klang_bed: If I had a kid, I wouldn't want them reading that either. I'd prefer them read:

[img.fark.net image 183x276]

[www.myvintagemagazines.com image 300x300]

[upload.wikimedia.org image 250x346]

[justanotherbookworm.files.wordpress.com image 333x500]

[juliasmexicocity.typepad.com image 500x500]

[img1.imagesbn.com image 260x347]

This was quite the eye-opener for me when I was about 12 or so.

RatMaster999

2014-05-07 2:30:52 AM

Here's a better article from the local news. Warning: auto-play video
http://www.wmur.com/news/man-says-free-speech-rights-violated-in-arr es t-over-book/25834676

The One True TheDavid

2014-05-07 2:32:00 AM

Caffeine Induced Diarrhea: BSABSVR:

Is this another thread where we pretend that time limits at board meetings are somehow new and outrageous?

This is another thread where we make fun of a stupidly indignant parent.

I don't agree with his opinion--I think that's silly, not salacious--but he shouldn't be arrested for expressing it. The article doesn't say he yelled or threw anything or punched anybody, just that he violated a two-minute rule. (By how much? An hour? Three days?) Now their heavy-handedness has made the guy a "martyr" to to the other parents of conservative bent, which is spreading as I type, so now they've got themselves A Controversy.

As for the passage in question I can see their point: 9th graders should not be required to read such stuff. But from a different angle: in what's essentially Reagan's 9th term in office you don't give such parents a weapon against you. Instead you find a book by the same author that's not so "pornographic," and you let slip that there's another book by her whose title you won't mention that they won't be assigned because there's a passage that some people find pornographic but that you think is just hilariously bad writing, and then leave the little buggers to explore things on their own.

Besides, I picture most normal 9th grade girls getting yucked out by it. Even some of my sluttier girlfriends had prudish tastes. And you don't want 9th grade girls being revolted by sexual imagery or where will the next generation of ~~strippers~~ Communications majors come from?

whidbey

2014-05-07 2:32:09 AM

A New Hampshire parent was arrested at a Monday night school board meeting after he voiced outrage his ninth grade daughter was assigned a book that contains a page detailing a graphic sexual encounter.

Good. He sounds like a farking asshole.

NerdCoreRageQuit

2014-05-07 2:32:23 AM

I so want to post this on the comments page of the article, but that means I have to sign in and then get their crappy news service e-mailed to me. Instead, I'll leave it here...

Also, he was arrested for violating the time limit on the subject. They needed to cover other concerns by other parents, and he wouldn't shut up. Why don't people in the comments section of the article get that? Sheesh, now they're all paranoid about indoctrination camps by the gub'ment. These people are nuts.

NerdCoreRageQuit

2014-05-07 2:33:56 AM

Er, I should have said "Made to leave by violating the two minute rule." He was arrested for being a jerk to an officer.

whidbey

2014-05-07 2:34:18 AM

NerdCoreRageQuit: Sheesh, now they're all paranoid about indoctrination camps by the gub'ment. These people are nuts.

Where they make you sign up for health care and make you buy flatscreen TVs for poor people.. The HORROR.

Kuta

2014-05-07 2:35:13 AM

RatMaster999: Here's a better article from the local news. Warning: auto-play video

How to stop autplaying ads/vids:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/internet/3497991/how-stop-autoplay in g-ads-videos-media-on-web-pages/

Poowaddins

2014-05-07 2:37:03 AM

Outrageous parent is outrageous. Much ado about nothing imho.

I was reading these inelementary school.My parents never read anything I did, my mom was too doped up on drugs and booze after work and my dad worked 7 days a week on second shift, so I was handed a library card and dropped off at the library in town after school by the school bus. I was fascinated with archaeology and paleontology at the time, and thought "Oh cool, cave bears!" and it was all uphill from there.

I turned out completely normal. Mostly.

whidbey

2014-05-07 2:37:31 AM

The One True TheDavid: As for the passage in question I can see their point: 9th graders should not be required to read such stuff.

Dude, whatever. You don't think someone 14 is ready to read about sex? It's in all the culture they're already familiar with.

Trance354

2014-05-07 2:37:34 AM

nice to see Gilford making the map, in a state filled with gun-toting morons all about personal freedom. This should make for interesting further headlines in the future...

/from NH
//Amherst ... or rather, Ahm'st, on the border with Mont Vernon ... not Mount, Mont

The One True TheDavid

2014-05-07 2:39:03 AM

Kalashinator: "Feel safe with the amazing credit card knife! Transforms from a 'credit card' into a sharp knife!"

What a bizarre ad about a disorderly conduct arrest at a school.

"PLEASE NOTE: These blades are steel and they will set off any metal detectors. This product is not easily smuggled onto airlines."

Free, just pay $2.95 S&H.

But I'm not sure that's not a Concealed Weapon under KY law. Or would it count as a pocket knife?

fusillade762

2014-05-07 2:39:20 AM

King Something: Non-Breitbart link or the exact opposite happened.

Here ya go!

Wessoman

2014-05-07 2:40:40 AM

firefly212: The two minute rule is so that everyone gets a chance to speak... so ya, you need to follow it... your first amendment rights do not trump everyone elses... they all came because they had stuff to say too. Once you stepped it up by not leaving when the officer asked you too.... well, ya, you're gonna get arrested for that no matter what your opinion is.

whidbey: Good. He sounds like a farking asshole.

This and THIS.

And comon, that scene really isn't that hot. Just two teens farking on a carpet and the dude spooges. That's it. It's not even as hot as the sex scene in Judy Blume's Forever, a book I had to read. So yeah. Besides, William Baer, your 9th grade daughter has certainly seen, heard, or experienced worse first-hand. And if she hasn't, then, bro, then your kids are too damn sheltered to be worth a damn in this society. Parents like you are the reason why Millenials have extended adolescences that annoyingly last beyond college.

ScaryBottles

2014-05-07 2:40:49 AM

andyofne: fusillade762: "You are going to arrest me because I violated the two-minute rule?" the father said. "I guess you are going to have to arrest me."

News Flash: if you dare a cop to arrest you they just might.

William Baer was charged with disorderly conduct.

Having an opinion, disorderly conduct. Potayto, potahto.

Here's the passage in question for anyone interested:

"'Relax,' Matt murmured, and then he sank his teeth into her shoulder. He pinned her hands over her head and ground his hips against hers. She could feel his erection, hot against her stomach.

" ... She couldn't remember ever feeling so heavy, as if her heart were beating between her legs. She clawed at Matt's back to bring him closer.

"'Yeah,' he groaned, and her pushed her thighs apart. And then suddenly Matt was inside her, pumping so hard that she scooted backward on the carpet, burning the backs of her legs. ... (H)e clamped his hand over her mouth and drove harder and harder until Josie felt him come.

"Semen, sticky and hot, pooled on the carpet beneath her."

We know how to read.

Kuta

2014-05-07 2:43:49 AM

Wessoman: firefly212: The two minute rule is so that everyone gets a chance to speak... so ya, you need to follow it... your first amendment rights do not trump everyone elses... they all came because they had stuff to say too. Once you stepped it up by not leaving when the officer asked you too.... well, ya, you're gonna get arrested for that no matter what your opinion is.

whidbey: Good. He sounds like a farking asshole.

This and THIS.

And comon, that scene really isn't that hot. Just two teens farking on a carpet and the dude spooges. That's it. It's not even as hot as the sex scene in Judy Blume's Forever, a book I had to read. So yeah. Besides, William Baer, your 9th grade daughter has certainly seen, heard, or experienced worse first-hand. And if she hasn't, then, bro, then your kids are too damn sheltered to be worth a damn in this society. Parents like you are the reason why Millenials have extended adolescences that annoyingly last beyond college.

http://www.nerve.com/content/jacks-naughty-bits-judy-blume-forever

See, men?

Fart_Machine

2014-05-07 2:44:02 AM

The One True TheDavid: don't agree with his opinion--I think that's silly, not salacious--but he shouldn't be arrested for expressing it. The article doesn't say he yelled or threw anything or punched anybody, just that he violated a two-minute rule.

He didn't get arrested for expressing his opinion. He got arrested for being a dick and refusing to leave when asked.

The One True TheDavid

2014-05-07 2:45:06 AM

whidbey: The One True TheDavid:

As for the passage in question I can see their point: 9th graders should not be required to read such stuff.

Dude, whatever. You don't think someone 14 is ready to read about sex? It's in all the culture they're already familiar with.

Go back and re-read that paragraph of my comment with the emphasized part in mind. After that figure out what I was really saying.

whidbey

2014-05-07 2:45:51 AM

Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: 9th grade is a little young for required reading involving an explicit sex scene. That's more like junior year material.

No it isn't. Jesus.

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