Pink post-it notes strike again

It's incidents like this one that make me marvel at the fact that I've made it to this point still allowed to scribe from free society, and unobstructed by a haze of anti-psychotic chemicals:

Teen investigated for homework threat to Bush

[School Committee chair Daniel] Burns, who was briefed by the West Warwick school superintendent on the essay but had not read it, described it as bitter. "Obviously, this individual needs some kind of help," he said.

He questioned whether the boy had help composing it.

"Someone in the 7th grade just doesn't gather this information by themselves," he said. "I was concerned where that came from."

The student is undergoing counseling, Burns said.

Well, I should hope. We can't have troublemakers like that observing the world around them, evaluating what they see and writing down their reasoned (though, granted, perhaps not the most impeccably, practically or diplomatically reasoned) deductions in this supposed democracy-and in a classroom no less! With any luck, they'll get him on some drugs soon and he won't think such thoughts at all any more. Damned hooligan kids and their free speech, don't they know they're being unpatriotic?