NAPE Testing And The Conspiracy

So I'm doing an article for my school newspaper about NAPE, which is a standardized test that select students complete, in order to create templates for the whole student body to do. It's sort of like a Nielsen Family kind of thing, I think. I tried to research NAPE online, and I eventually found documents on the subject, but I also found out what NAPE is really doing to our students...

The word "nape" actually means "the back of the neck." Apparently I'm one of the only people that didn't know that. The nape is the part of the body that adult mammals like cats will grab or bite the nape of their younger kin, and carry them around.

That's what I mean, sorry if I didn't make sense.

Anyway, are school districts treating us as their "young children," forcefully grabbing us at the scruff of the neck by their teeth and carrying us around? I might just be thinking about it too hard. Maybe I should go actually write my article.

#FreeBarrettBrown

Barrett Brown was recently given five years in prison for posting a link to hacker documents, among other charges. He did not even associate with the hackers involved nor did he participate in the hacking, but merely posted the link to a chat board, for journalistic purposes. Apparently, "reporting the truth is criminal." After he plead guilty for multiple charges, including threatening an FBI agent and publishing illegal documents, he was given 62 months in prison yesterday, and the court stated that if you publish material that is linked to illegal hacking, you are liable for what you post and can be pinned as an accessory to the hackers. This prevents many outlets of journalism on hackers and possibly prevents citizens from being protected by hackers who perform identity theft and other crimes. Kind of sounds like a George Orwell dystopian novel, in my opinion.

My mom is making a documentary on him, and the numerous instances of unconstitutional hypocrisy that was performed in this fiasco. Multiple groups of people have formed movements to release Barrett Brown and bring him to justice. This new statement about publishing links to hacker material is devastating to the Internet community, and to our 1st Amendment. The court didn't even give Barrett Brown back his copy of the Declaration of Independence that they seized from him. Maybe they'll finally read it.

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