Happy Tuesday, the day that is without a doubt the secondest day of the week - and thus, deserving of a Morning Roar!Breaking: U.S. Begins Bombing ISIS Locations in SyriaA brief note, that as this edition of The Morning Roar was being set to publish, reports began coming in that the United States is now bombing reported ISIS targets in Syria. The "War on ISIS" has expanded from the U.S. satellite of Iraq and into more hostile territory with a government that surely will not approve of U.S. meddling. Stay tuned to this space and our social media for updates.School Punishes Child For Sharing Lunch With Other StudentNext we have yet another example of the nanny-nazi culture that has invaded this country gone awry. Weaverville, CA's Trinity Alps School District gave a 13 year old boy detention because he shared his lunch with a friend that didn't like his own cheese sandwich. Moronic? Why yes, it is. Let's hear the explanation for the punishment, via KRCRTV.com:

The policies set by the district say that students can have allergies that another student may not be aware of.Tom Barnett, the Superintendent of the Trinity Alps Unified School District says that hygiene issues also come into play when banning students from sharing meals."We have a policy that prohibits students from exchanging meals. Of course if students are concerned about other students not having enough to eat we would definitely want to consider that, but because of safety and liability we cannot allow students to actually exchange meals," said Barnett.

First off, if these children are 13 years old, they should know exactly what allergies they do or do not have. If someone has an allergy to something that may kill them, it's pretty well established early on that you know what that thing is, and know to avoid it. As for hygiene issues? Give me a break. Anywhere children are is a den of filth and germs no matter what, and that's the nature of the beast. Children in close proximity for hours on end is what will transfer colds and flu germs, not sharing a burrito.Second, and more importantly, this drives me insane because once again parents are all too content to put the job of rearing children into the hands of the state-run educational system. Not only is the food that children eat now under the ironclad control of Michelle "Food-Gestapo" Obama, but the school now has to police what the children do with their food as well in order to protect a possible food allergy? Parents are responsible for educating their children and for making a child knowledgable about a condition or allergy they may have. An over-arching and ridiculous policy that punishes (a first time offender nonetheless) students for doing the right thing by his or her fellow man and sharing is utterly absurd.Joseph Gordon-Levitt May Play Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone FilmI'm a big fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I love his work, and he seems like a nice guy. Oliver Stone on the other hand...oof. He was excellent in the 80s and then took one of the most brutally quick falls from grace once the 90s hit and has never recovered. Calling his recent films "bad" is a compliment. So I'm none too thrilled that he feels that the onus of a biographical Snowden film falls unto him. From Deadline.com:

EXCLUSIVE:  Oliver Stone has set his sights on  Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play asylum-seeking CIA leaker  Edward Snowden in the movie that Stone and his producing partner  Moritz Borman intend to shoot beginning in December in Munich. It becomes the latest intriguing role for Gordon-Levitt, who wrapped playing Philippe Petit in the  Robert Zemeckis-directed  The Walk for  Tom Rothman‘s TriStar and is now shooting  Xmas with  Seth Rogen at  Sony. It hasn’t happened yet, but stay tuned.As Deadline has reported, Stone and Borman have a deal with Snowden’s Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, for film rights to his novel  Time Of The Octopus. That is the basis for the story of an American whistle blower who heads to Russia and the back and forth between the leaker and his lawyer as he waits while that country considers his request for asylum. Stone and Borman also bought the screen rights to  The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World’s Most Wanted Man, a book by  Guardian journalist  Luke Harding that’s published by Guardian Faber.

Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.Child Pornography Case Spurs Debate on Military's Role in Law Enforcement As police become more militarized, people are asking where the line between the military and the police is actually drawn. That debate goes even deeper with a recent case revolving around child pornography, wherein a federal agent working for the Navy utilized a government program called RoundUP to find a computer offering illegal pornographic images and videos for download. He then passed that information onto local police in Washington state, who made an arrest. This is highly problematic, as the NY Times points out.

Mr. Logan worked for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and his mission that day in April 2011, he would later testify, had been to look for military service members trading in child pornography in Washington, the location of several naval bases.

Mr. Logan’s computer surveillance could not distinguish military users from others, and the man he helped catch, Michael A. Dreyer, was a civilian. Now the case has sparked sharp debate over how much the military’s formidable investigative powers can legally contribute to civilian law enforcement.

This month, in a scathing rebuke of the investigative service and the Justice Department that has generated wide interest in legal circles, a federal appeals court in San Francisco overturned Mr. Dreyer’s conviction. Federal authorities had shown “a profound lack of regard for the important limitations on the role of the military in our civilian society,” declared the decision issued Sept. 12 by a panel of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

 Just as the NSA spied upon millions upon millions of innocent civilians trying to track down terrorists, the Navy program also broadly searched for any computer with the illegal content download, not just military personnel. That means millions more people were being illegally scrutinized by the government.

Military investigators often cooperate with civilian law enforcement when tracking down, for example, a source of heroin flowing into a military base. But in this case, “they were just searching generally on the chance that they would run into someone from the military,” said Erik B. Levin, the defense lawyer in Mr. Dreyer’s appeal.

In addition to condemning the Navy’s investigative service for overstepping regulations that have evolved from the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, limiting the use of federal troops in law enforcement, the appeals court took the unusually strong step of excluding the computer evidence in any new trial of Mr. Dreyer.

“The extraordinary nature of the surveillance here demonstrates a need to deter future violations,” said the ruling, written by Judge Marsha S. Berzon, in justifying a decision that could set the offender free. One of the three judges dissented on this aspect, saying the harm would outweigh any benefit, and some independent legal experts said that the decision to exclude evidence went against recent legal norms.

Another judge agreed, with a nice summation:

The naval investigative service’s role in the case “amounts to the military acting as a national police force to investigate civilian law violations by civilians,” Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote in a concurring opinion.

Naturally, questioning of Mr. Logan also led to more revelations about the use of this system and intrusion into the private lives of citizens without warrant or reason.

In earlier court testimony, Mr. Logan said that he and a colleague in the Georgia office had started investigating child pornography cases because “we had the opportunity and the equipment,” particularly the RoundUp program, and that he had been involved in at least 20 other child pornography investigations. It was standard practice, he said, to scrutinize computers within a designated geographic area, without any way to limit searches to those owned by military or government personnel.

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