WWAY reports that a Wilmington 6th-grader is in trouble for looking at a sportsman’s catalog on the school bus — a magazine that included pictures of guns. The dad, Stanley Wardrip, says he got a call from the school’s cop about what his son was reading and that his son has been “reprimanded.”
New Hanover County Schools Assistant Superintendent Rick Holliday said he could not comment on this particular issue, but he said it’s up to the discretion of each employee on what is considered appropriate reading material.
Whether it’s right here in North Carolina, or within the behemoth bureaucracy of the IRS, some government officials believe they have the right to decide if what you’re reading and thinking is “appropriate” or not. Here’s just a taste of what the IRS told Tea Party groups to turn over to the government as part of their application for tax-exempt status.
Several of the groups were asked for résumés of top officers and descriptions of interviews with the media. One group was asked to provide “minutes of all board meetings since your creation.”
Some of the letters asked for copies of the groups’ Web pages, blog posts and social media postings — making some tea party members worry they’d be punished for their tweets or Facebook comments by their followers.
