Federal Appeals Court Upholds Practice of Mass Student Searches & Random Lockdowns by Police & Drug-Sniffing Dogs in Missouri High School

The Rutherford Institute

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.? In a ruling issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Burlison v. Springfield Public Schools, the court deemed a Missouri school district?s policy of imposing a ?lockdown? of the school for the purpose of allowing the local sheriff?s department, aided by drug-sniffing dogs, to perform mass inspections of students? belongings to be a ?reasonable procedure to maintain the safety and security of students at the school,? and not a violation of the Fourth Amendment rights of students.

Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute had challenged the school district?s practice of conducting random lockdowns and mass searches of students. Institute attorneys had asked the appeals court to reverse a federal district court?s January 2012 ruling that Springfield Public Schools and the Greene County Sheriff?s Office did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of students when they executed the April 2010 lockdown at Central High School.

?Random, suspicionless lockdown raids against children teach our children a horrific lesson?one that goes against every fundamental principle this country was founded upon?that we have no rights at all against the police state,? said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. ?Americans should be outraged over the fact that school officials are not only defending such clearly unconstitutional practices but are actually going so far as to insist that these raids are a ?standard drill? that will continue.?

On April 22, 2010, the principal of Central High School announced over the public address system that the school was going into ?lockdown? and that students were prohibited from leaving their classrooms. School officials and agents of the Greene County Sheriff?s Department thereafter ordered students to leave all personal belongings behind and exit the classrooms. Dogs were also brought in to assist in the raid. Upon re-entering the classrooms, students allegedly discovered that their belongings had been rummaged through. Mellony and Doug Burlison, who had two children attending Central High School, complained to school officials that the lockdown and search were a violation of their children?s rights. School officials allegedly responded by insisting that the search was a ?standard drill? and policy of the school district which would continue.

Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute sued the school district in September 2010 on behalf of the Burlisons and their two children, asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri to declare that the practice of effecting a lockdown of the school and conducting random, suspicionless seizures and searches violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the similar provision of the Missouri Constitution. In its January 2012 decision, the district court declared that the random lockdown and mass searches did not violate students? rights. In its ruling issued March 4, 2013, the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment, holding that the school?s interest in combatting drug use outweighed the privacy rights of students. Affiliate attorney Jason T. Umbarger of Springfield, Mo., is assisting The Rutherford Institute in its defense of the Burlison family.

Case History

03/08/2013 ? Federal Appeals Court Upholds Practice of Mass Student Searches & Random Lockdowns by Police & Drug-Sniffing Dogs in Missouri High School

06/13/2012 ? Rutherford Institute Challenges Missouri School Over Constitutionality, Continuation of Mass Student Searches & Random Lockdowns

04/24/2012 ? Rutherford Institute Asks Appeals Court to Declare Mass Student Searches & Random Lockdowns in Missouri High Schools To Be Unconstitutional

01/31/2013 ? U.S. District Court Declares Mass Student Searches & Random Lockdowns in Missouri High Schools To Be Legal, Dismisses Fourth Amendment Lawsuit

09/28/2010 ? Rutherford Institute Files Fourth Amendment Lawsuit Against Missouri School Demanding End to Mass Student Searches, Random Lockdowns

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The Rutherford Institute's complaint and subsequent reply brief in Burlison v. Springfield Public Schools

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tennessee and the performing arts club

there is much discussion about capitalism, what it should be and stuff. capitalism implies private ownership of industry. that is what exists and private owners outwardly present a batter of constructs and variations of communism, socialism. democracy so absurd i include it only to include the word.

tennessee in the context of the tsa is a prison corporation, ie 'arbeit mach frei'. auschwitz was directly relevant (aus - out, witz - joke). during a collossal global financial transaction involving banking and insurance known as ww2 new actors of history were programmed for this war. following ww2 actors of history (including captains of industry) were changed over in britain and america as was noticed and complained about at the time.

in the case of tennesse as a corporation, the same applies to the tsa. tennesse as a corporation is a fiction, as land no one owns it. it doesn't matter that the state would assert a border fence is proof they own it or what it is, it was there before the incumbant, they can prove only occupation.

the fence or some other territorial marker would be proof of war and that was part of the racket. tennessee for example was the main base of electricity production. local people paid for the electricity they were working to provide for themselves. that strange logic was not my creation, it is mad. in the case of other states buying electricity from tennessee that is interstate commerce, what the fbi have the task of protecting and it is warfare as are the fbi wholesale. that warfare is in a form that deceives many and is an efficient use of slave labour.

the borders are divisions, dividing people up forcing competition. as the empire collapses it is like time reversal, a state could falter and the entire slave population leave, ruin long range military plans. the human livestock is penned in that nothing of value can leave without permission from the protectors of the racket, not large amounts of anything of value human livestock included.

tennessee also has a vw car plant going in, vw the signature of reich 3. at one point the occult mafia via their music industry encouraged people to steal the vw (vvv) logo and owners were issued with spares. symbolic at the time perhaps of a transfer of official programming to reich 4.

in britland the police non-emergency number has been changed to and i quote:
"!!!!! 101 !!!!!"

as in V V V, i take it to mean p*ss off but subliminally it is perhaps meant to connect with fear, room 101 (V) in the 1984 plan rolling. one of the early integrated circuits widely used was called the 555 timer, as divided and ruled it is for the slaves their time, labour, ignorance and fear on which the dictatorship feeds.

at higher level constructs, these are just divisions of the larger company, the cia's job and formed out of german and british military counter intelligence they will be working on keeping borders secure in minds and on the ground.

in all this no one seems to be mentioning free food, free water, free shelter, free minds. bbc division V use it when taking over nations but as the empire tries to haul into reverse gear the truth catches up and in the case of central banking and libya the truth was often ahead of the lies.

that said, the bbc are able to generate waves on twitter via the captive minds of their audience.

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