November 10, 2003

Goose Creek incident

Glen Reynolds has a good writeup on the Goose Creek Incident



GOOSE CREEK: A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT

On Friday, police in Goose Creek, South Carolina raided Stratford High School in search of drugs. At the behest of Principal George McCrackin, they burst in, and forced students to lie face-down in the hallways while they menaced them with drawn guns. (You can see the video here.)

The security overkill led to considerable humiliation for the police and principal — though not nearly as much as they deserve — when no drugs were found, and when footage from the dozens of security cameras in the high school made the news, offering graphic evidence that the Goose Creek police were acting like thugs. Parents, not suprisingly, are “infuriated.”

Principal McCrackin would seem to be this year’s poster-boy for home schooling. With an Orwellian network of video surveillance (if you play the news video linked above, you can see him sitting in front of a bank of TV screens), with “confidential informants” among the students, and with a police force willing to raid a high school as if it were a nest of terrorists, he still couldn’t find the drugs. If, indeed, there were any drugs to begin with. Why would anyone pay taxes to support this sort of expensive and nasty foolishness? A lot of Goose Creek residents may ask themselves that very question.

Indeed...

Posted by DaveH at November 10, 2003 10:13 AM