In this episode, we are joined by Fred Newsom, the father of a young man who did nothing wrong but was attacked by the "thought police" and the political police that we now seem to have in this country. This is out of Virginia and it says a county middle school student will not be allowed to wear his National Rifle Association t-shirt to school while his lawsuit against the school system is pending.
00:00:33.000Before the hour ends, I'll get to everybody that's holding, Spencer and Jesse and Michael and Robert and many others.
00:00:41.000Right now, we're joined by Fred Newsom, the father of a young man who did nothing wrong but was attacked basically by the Thought Police, the political police that we now seem to have in this country.
00:00:53.000This is out of Charlottesville, Virginia, and it says a county middle school student will not be allowed to wear his National Rifle Association t-shirt to school while his lawsuit against the school system is pending.
00:01:58.000Moon said Tuesday's ruling that the Newsom's are likely to win their lawsuit, which names the school board members, the superintendent, the school principal.
00:02:27.000Look, I read the stories of people whose children, whose parents are in the military.
00:02:31.000They draw a picture of their father in their fatigues and the child gets grabbed by the police and they almost take the kid away and suspend them and do all this.
00:02:40.000It doesn't sound like the school's that bad, but I'm glad you're standing up.
00:02:45.000Well, Alan attended a shooting safety event, got a t-shirt from the event, and was proud of it.
00:02:53.000He enjoys target shooting and was proud of learning some safety and responsibility and wore his t-shirt to school.
00:03:01.000Well, apparently that horrified the school administrators, and they threatened to suspend him if he didn't take it off or turn it inside out right away, and told him not to bring it back.
00:03:11.000But I'm sure everything's fine to have armed school police and pat-downs and warrantless searches.
00:03:20.000As far as I know, and I guess Allen's First Amendment is In this school does not extend to him being able to express his pride in his chosen sport.
00:04:23.000You should move to have him recuse himself because of this prejudice he showed.
00:04:32.000Well, I'm not an attorney, and I'll leave that up to the attorneys.
00:04:36.000We're going to stick Stick with this thing and see it through.
00:04:42.000But wait, I mean, you should point out, here's the Associated Press article, here's the judge saying he thinks that you're quote, unlikely to win this thing.
00:04:49.000How can he sit there and make comments like that?
00:04:52.000Judges aren't supposed to talk like that.
00:04:55.000That's a judicial misconduct if I ever heard of one.
00:04:59.000Judges, judges that comment, oh yeah, this person should have lost this case after a trial, the trials get thrown out.
00:05:08.000Well, the judge also said that in having his First Amendment rights chilled, he did not suffer any damage.
00:05:18.000Well, the FBI has argued in court cases that you can't use the Constitution as a defense or as an argument.
00:05:28.000Moon said in Tuesday's ruling that the Newsom's were unlikely to win their suit, which names a school board member, superintendent, school principal.
00:05:38.000Now, certainly, sir, you've heard about judges where suits or criminal cases, you have to get retried because a judge makes a comment that, oh, I knew that he was guilty or I knew this was a stupid suit all along.
00:05:52.000Have you talked to your lawyers yet about this statement?
00:05:55.000Not about this statement specifically, but I sure will now.
00:05:59.000I think you bring up an excellent point.
00:06:22.000Well, I won't say he's been mistreated.
00:06:25.000He's been getting some cold stares and some glares, and for some reason the school was unable to arrange his schedule so that he could be in the band again this year.
00:06:36.000But for the most part, I don't think he's been mistreated.
00:06:39.000He's been taking some razzing from the other students.
00:06:43.000Oh, because they want to be disarmed slaves.
00:07:10.000I didn't think so until now, but we're a rural county.
00:07:18.000Um, a lot of... We... Our kids have a constitutional right to hunt.
00:07:24.000Allen's not a hunter, but if he wanted to, he has a constitutional, a state constitutional right to hunt.
00:07:30.000Um... I had thought we were... Well, certainly the Second Amendment, though, is a right to keep and bear arms, to defend against tyranny, and so that's a right to own firearms, period.
00:07:42.000Well, the Second Amendment's not about duck hunting.
00:07:48.000It certainly is a right, but apparently Alan can't show pride in getting some education and proficiency at that.
00:07:57.000Now I'll bet you kids are wearing rock band t-shirts for these horrible bands that talk about sex and drugs and killing, but I'm sure that's okay.
00:08:07.000I think they look the other way on that.
00:08:12.000How can they say that the shirt depicts violence?
00:08:16.000Well, at the time that this happened, there was no rule against it.
00:08:21.000The school kept insisting that there was a rule prohibiting the shirt, and I kept asking them to show it to me.
00:08:29.000They lied about the rule, but they changed the rule for this school year.
00:08:36.000The incident happened in the last school year, last spring.
00:08:40.000So they changed the rule to prohibit weapons.
00:08:45.000Well, I would force the issue because courts have ruled that if they let other civic organizations into the school to proselytize, they have to let Eddie Eagle in.
00:08:57.000Apparently, the state school people in Richmond have been pressing our county to institute the Eddie Eagle program, but they have refused to do so.
00:09:11.000Well, what I'm saying is, is in the court cases, I don't have them in front of me, but I've seen them in the news, that if they've allowed other groups in, and I know they let the gun grabbers in the schools, if they've done that, or any other group, then they have to let Eddie Eagle in.
00:10:13.000They became familiar with the situation, and they're providing legal representation, and they've got a write-up on the whole case at www.NRADefenseFund.org, along with a picture of the shirt.
00:10:30.000I don't know where things are going with our educational system.
00:10:33.000I think this is a bad sign, what's happening, and I sure appreciate you bringing attention to it on your show.
00:10:41.000Were you aware of the BATF program, started under Clinton, continued by Bush, where they have BATF in some of the public schools for a whole semester?
00:10:50.000And it says, I have the documents on this, that they are allowed to have the students, quote, write essays about family life.
00:11:11.000Well we need to, as members of the NRA, because you know there's good people in the NRA, need to pressure the NRA leadership not to compromise because that Our Lady of Peace Act is more draconian than the 68 Gun Control Act.
00:11:25.000And, uh, it goes towards registering gun owners, collecting data from the states, going after misdemeanor.
00:11:30.000Uh, folks, we don't need any more gun laws.
00:11:33.000And, uh, certainly I know you're now in contact with the NRA, and I know I'm giving you a lot of advice and stuff.
00:11:37.000You probably know more about this in some areas than I do.
00:11:40.000I just am desperate to save the Second Amendment, and I see it in deep, deep trouble with the lawsuits and the demonization, and I'm sure you've seen the billboards or heard about them where it says, report illegal guns, and it shows a picture of a revolver when a revolver isn't even illegal.
00:11:55.000So see how they're creating that perception that guns are already illegal?
00:11:59.000I see that perception and I see that that's what they're doing in the school and that's what this case is really all about.
00:12:06.000Alright, so one more time, that website to read the brief about this.
00:12:11.000www.NRADefenseFund.org Well, Fred, I know that you were busy with your business today, and I'm sorry we got you on late.
00:12:20.000Thanks for checking in with us, and God bless you, sir.
00:12:22.000Thank you very much, and God bless you, too.
00:12:24.000And one more thing, commend your son for standing up for the Second Amendment.