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Judge: Let ‘Teddy Bear’ Students Return

KNIGHTSTOWN, IND. — Making a movie in which evil teddy bears attack a teacher got two budding filmmakers expelled from their high school, but a federal judge says it was the school that was wrong.

However, the judge said the boys should apologize.

Cody Overbay and Isaac Imel, both sophomores, must be allowed to return to Knightstown High School for the second semester, U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker said Friday in Indianapolis in granting a preliminary injunction. She also ordered the school to allow the students to make up any work they had missed since their expulsions in October.

The boys worked on the movie “The Teddy Bear Master” from fall 2005 through summer 2006. It depicts a “teddy bear master” ordering stuffed animals to kill a teacher who had embarrassed him, but students battle the toy beasts, according to documents filed in court.

Not having every little detail its hard to say, but it seems that where they went wrong was using the real name of a teacher they didn’t like. You don’t get to do that kind of satiric blistering until you graduate. The judge made the correct decision, but I can see where the teacher might have found the whole scenario a little threatening.

Since it is the holidays for some people it is ironic that our beloved King or excuse me president who saw the draft in his youth and ran like hell to escape it, yet has made an issue out of remembering the hardships and sacrifices of others. Bush and his conservative echo chamber have so many faces it is difficult to keep track of them all, A Parable For Our Times

Of course it’s hard to grasp what really motivated this movement. Many of the new conservative elites profess devotion to the needs of ordinary people, in contrast with some of their counterparts a hundred years ago who were often Social Darwinists, and couldn’t have been more convinced that a vast chasm between the rich and poor is the natural state of things. But after 30 years of conservative revival and a dramatic return of the discredited “voodoo economics” of the 1980s under George W. Bush, it’s reasonable to follow the old biblical proverb that says by their fruits you shall know them. By that realistic standard, I think the Nobel Laureate economist Robert Solow’s analysis sums it up well: What it’s all about, he simply said, is “the redistribution of wealth in favor of the wealthy and of power in favor of the powerful.”

Bush would like to thank those that are dying for a lie while he is doing less then nothing to make America safer. As Iraq hogs up the headlines Bush and Company puts the economy in a u-turn back to the good old days of social darwinism, a time where you knew your place. It has always amazed me that so many working class southern whites would jump on this keep Paris Hilton safe from the ravishes of a good day’s work bandwagon, while at the same time so many would volunteer to fight windmills.