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544
Paul Hsieh, "The Dangerous Synergy Between The Nanny State And Universal Health Care,"
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545
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srvc=home&position=0.
546
"Nanny State: Spoiled Milkshakes,"
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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. timesdispatch.com/news/rtd-opinion/2012/jul/06/tdopin01-spoiled-milkshakes-ar-2036945/.
547
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548
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. com/articles/20120301/15425317936/chipping-away-first-amendment-new-trespassing-bill-could-be-used-to-criminalize-legitimate-protests.shtml.
549
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CNN Justice
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: JUSTICE.
550
Mark Baard, "Free Speech Behind the Razor Wire,"
Wired
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. wired.com/politics/law/news/2004/07/64349.
551
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552
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. com/post/27956783155/work-in-progress.

C H A P T E R TWENTY-FOUR

553
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.
554
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The War on Kids
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555
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WKMG Local
6 (Nov. 3, 2011),
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middle-school-student-suspended-for-hugging-girl/-/1637132/4299476/-/f0amd3z/-/ index.html.
556
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(Dec. 5, 2011),
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557
Andrew Jones, "Cops arrest 6-year-old kindergartener in Georgia,"
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(April 17, 2012),
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.
558
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CBS San Francisco
(Jan. 27, 2012),
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.
559
Piper Weiss, "Kindergartner Charged with Battery. Why Are We Criminalizing Kids?"
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.
560
Stephanie Chen, "Girl's arrest for doodling raises concerns about zero tolerance," CJVJV (Feb. 18,2010),
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.
561
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562
Jim Kiertzner, "4 Monroe Jefferson High School students charged in cafeteria food fight,"
Click On Detroit
(March 28, 2012),
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a2v4f/-/index.html.
563
Mike Masnick, "High School Student Expelled For Tweeting Profanity; Principal Admits School Tracks All Tweets,"
Techdirt
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articles/20120326/04334818242/high-school-student-expelled-tweeting-profanity-principal-admits-school -tracks-all -tweets.shtml.
564
Chris McGreal, "The US schools with their own police,"
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.
565
"In-school arrests fuel nationwide debate over when to involve police,"
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(April 19,2012),
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.
566
Annette Fuentes,
Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
(Verso, 2010)
567
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568
Shaun Chaiyabhat, "Nurse refuses student inhaler during asthma attack,"
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.
569
Howard Portnoy, "8-year-old ordered to remove numbered football jersey by school,"
Examiner.com
, (Sept. 14, 2012),
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remove-numbered-footbaU -jersey-by-school.
570
Howard Portnoy, "School disciplines 10-year-old for gun-shaped pizza slice,"
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, (Dec. 25,2011),
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.
571
Howard Portnoy, "Deaf preschooler forbidden to sign own name because gesture resembles gun," Examiner.com (Aug. 28, 2012),
http://www.examiner.com/article/deaf-preschooler-forbidden-to-sign-own-name-because-gesture-resembles-gun?cid=PROD-redesign-right-next
.
572
Howard Portnoy, "HS valedictorian denied diploma after saying word 'hell' in graduation speech,"
Examiner.com
(Aug. 23, 2012),
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hs-valedictorian-denied-diploma-after-saying-word-hell-graduation-speech.
573
Cevin Soling,
The War on Kids
(Spectacle Films, 2009).
574
Samreen Hooda, "Texas School ID Tracking Chips Protested By Parents And Students,"
Huffington Post
(Sept. 6, 2012),
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.
575
David Kravets, "Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It's All About the Benjamins,"
Wired
(Sept. 7, 2012),
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.
576
Northside ISD "Smart" ID Cards: Student Locator Pilot,
http://www.nisd.net/student-locator/
.
577
"Texas School District Reportedly Threatening Students Who Refuse Tracking ID, Can't Vote For Homecoming,"
Huffington Post
(Oct. 8, 2012),
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. com/2012/10/08/texas-school-district-rep_n_1949415.html?utm_hp_ref=teen.
578
David Rosen, "Big Brother invades our classrooms,"
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(Oct. 8,2012),
http://www.salon
. com/2012/10/08/big_brother_invades_our_classrooms/.
579
David Rosen, "Big Brother invades our classrooms,"
Salon
(Oct. 8,2012),
http://www.salon
. com/2012/10/08/big_brother_invades_our_classrooms/.
580
David Rosen, "Big Brother invades our classrooms,"
Salon
(Oct. 8,2012),
http://www.salon
. com/2012/10/08/big_brother_invades_our_classrooms/.
581
David Rosen, "Big Brother invades our classrooms,"
Salon
(Oct. 8,2012),
http://www.salon
. com/2012/10/08/big_brother_invades_our_classrooms/.
582
David Rosen, "Big Brother invades our classrooms,"
Salon
(Oct. 8,2012),
http://www.salon
. com/2012/10/08/big_brother_invades_our_classrooms/.
583
David Rosen, "Big Brother invades our classrooms,"
Salon
(Oct. 8,2012),
http://www.salon
. com/2012/10/08/big_brother_invades_our_classrooms/.
584
Bruce Levine, "Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate and Control?"
Alternet
(Oct. 11, 2012),
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585
Hunter S. Thompson,
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
(Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. xxii.

C H A P T E R TWENTY-FIVE

586
Adam Gopnik, "The Caging of America,"
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(Jan. 30,2012),
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. com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all.
587
Adam Gopnik, "The Caging of America,"
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(Jan. 30,2012),
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. com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all.
588
Jerry Markon, "Violent crime in U.S. on the decline,"
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(May 25,2010), http://
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.
589
Adam Gopnik, "The Caging of America,"
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(Jan. 30,2012),
http://www.newyorker
. com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all.
590
Adam Gopnik, "The Caging of America,"
New Yorker
(Jan. 30,2012),
http://www.newyorker
. com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all.
591
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.
592
James Ridgeway, "Locking Up Profits,"
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(Nov. 28, 2011), http:// readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/8632-locking-up-profits.
593
Joe Weisenthal, "This Investor Presentation For A Private Prison Is One Of The Creepiest Presentations We've Ever Seen,"
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(March 12, 2012),
http://www
. businessinsider.com/the-private-prison-business-2012-3#-6.
594
Joe Weisenthal, "This Investor Presentation For A Private Prison Is One Of The Creepiest Presentations We've Ever Seen,"
Business Insider
(March 12, 2012),
http://www
.
businessinsider.com/the-private-prison-business-20
12-3#-4.
595
Alan Prendergast, "ACLU, faith groups urge governors not to sell out to private prison giant,"
Westword
(March 5, 2012),
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corporation_of_america_private_prisons_aclu.php.
596
Kevin Johnson, "Private purchasing of prisons locks in occupancy rates,"
USA Today
(March 8, 2012),
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03-01/buying-prisons-require-high-occupancy/53402894/1
.
597
Kevin Johnson, "Private purchasing of prisons locks in occupancy rates,"
USA Today
(March 8, 2012),
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03-01/buying-
prisons-require-high-occupancy/53402894/1.
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