Fwd: [LINK]: Watch the ads... or go to jail!

[Karin Geiselhart]

Here's a cute one:

 > Forwarded from the Adbusters Website,
> > http://adbusters.org/magazine/34/jail.html
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> >
> > Students locked up after refusing to watch Channel One
> >
> >    When Ohio teenagers DJ and Carlotta Maurer walked out of their
> >    classrooms in October to protest the compulsory viewing of Channel
> >    One, a television program with commercials which is shown in schools
> >    across America, school officials realized they had a couple of
> >    dangerous radicals on their hands. Principal Patrick Calvin invoked
> >    the truancy provision of the school's code of student conduct, and
> >    13-year-old DJ and 14-year-old Carlotta were whisked away to the Wood
> >    County Juvenile Detention Center, where they had all day to consider
> >    their crime.
> >
> >    Since then, Commercial Alert and Obligation, Inc., two national
> >    anti-media groups, have taken up the Maurers' cause. The groups wrote
> >    to Ohio Governor Bob Taft, urging him to remove Channel One from all
> >    public schools.
> >
> >    "When the government sends children to a juvenile detention center
> >    because they don't want to watch advertising, that is both Orwellian
> >    and more than a little sick," reads the letter. "The public schools
> >    ought to be a sanctuary from the noxious aspects of commercial
> >    culture."
> >
> >    The governor has not responded to the letter. But the school is in
> >    negotiation with the Maurers, who have religious objections to
> >    television. It seems a day in the lockup didn't cool their heels
> >    enough to keep them from kicking.

Karin Geiselhart
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Electronic Commerce
School of Business Information Technology
RMIT University  Melbourne
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