JamesOops Curry

You are very correct. I was the point guard at Eastern from '94-'95. I played for Coach Moon(Curry's coach) and I can assure you that he will not play again in high school. Drinking was an absolute no-no if you played for Coach Moon, much less being accused of selling drugs. Coach Moon doesn't even drink himself, so he is not going to condone one of his players getting involved in drugs. On top of that, I know the principal very well (she was my next door neighbor, that SUCKED!) She will never let JamesOn put on the Eagle uniform again. It's as simple as that. She is a woman of integrity and class, and she would never let an accused drug dealer play for her school. This whole situation saddens me. JamesOn was a good kid, but he screwed up big time. I hope he learns from his mistake and shows up somewhere so everyone can see his talent. I'm afraid it won't be for the Heels though.

 

I think the key word is “accused” as opposed to “convicted”.

David Stern gets my vote for integrity for allowing an accused rapist to play.

Senator Sam, UNC class of 1917, gets my vote for integrity also:

“Religious freedom is America’s most precious possession and must be preserved irrespective of its cost.”

Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr.
American Legion Magazine
March, 1985

The Duke Law Journal also gets my vote for integrity:

http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?47+Duke+L.+J.+785

The principal of whom you write gets a thumbs-down vote from me. From what I can gather from the news, she is part of a system that tortures children:

http://www.trebach.org/abuse/conf2002/

And Mr. Jefferson gets my vote for integrity:

“yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way;…

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in nowise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

And though we well know this Assembly, elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no powers equal to our own and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law, yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.”

http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html

 

thanks tommy .......wonderful POINTSSSSSS!

 

Tommy, what the hell does the Trebach Report have to do with my high school principal having integrity? This report is from Florida, not Mebane. Don't try to put the liberal media spin on this.

JamesOn will not play again in high school unless he is cleared of these charges, which probably won't happen by the time his eligiblity runs out.

 

What teh hell does religious freedom have to do with this issue?

Tell you what. Why don't you find me the part about having the right to play basketball in the Constitution. Here's a link.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/index.html

 

He didn't even appear in court to face his charges yesterday.

 

Didn’t you read post #26? I find it laughable that you would imply that there is anything “liberal” about me or my postion.

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience...Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult...To be 'cured' against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. But to be punished, however severely, because we have deserved it, because we 'ought to have known better', is to be treated as a human person made in God's image...And when they are wicked the Humanitarian theory of punishment will put in their hands a finer instrument of tyranny than wickedness ever had before...The new Nero will approach us with the silky manners of a doctor, and though all will be in fact as compulsory as the tunica molesta or Smithfield or Tyburn, all will go on within the unemotional therapeutic sphere where words like 'right' and 'wrong' or 'freedom' and 'slavery' are never heard...Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is life-long, even if it is fatal, that will be only a regrettable accident; the intention was purely therapeutic...But because they are 'treatment, not punishment, they can be criticized only by fellow-experts and on technical grounds, never by men as men and on grounds of justice...But we ought long ago to have learned our lesson. We should be too old now to be deceived by those humane pretensions which have served to usher in every cruelty of the revolutionary period in which we live. These are the 'precious balms' which will 'break our heads'. “

C.S. Lewis
The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

http://www.angelfire.com/pro/lewiscs/humanitarian.html

 

Tell you what I’ll do. I’ll find out just who is the Superintendent of Alamance County Schools and who is the principal of Eastern Alamance High School, and then I’ll start a thread on the Rant and Rave board. We can have a good old fashion free for all on religious liberty. I’ll make it like my post on meckbar.org site from a little more than a year ago.

http://meckbar.org/cfforum/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=13&Topic=42

I’ll let the folks here on the sports forum know when it is up, but other than that I won’t touch the subject of drug treatment/religious liberty on the sports forum again.

The subject came up because of the quote from the Burlington Times-News article posted by another poster.

 

Do you have a source for that? So far this is what I’ve found at the Burlington Times News:

http://www.thetimesnews.com/search/...ryFileName=../2004/04-02/04-02-06/news-1.html

http://www.thetimesnews.com/search/...ryFileName=../2004/04-02/04-02-06/news-2.html

http://www.thetimesnews.com/search/...ryFileName=../2004/04-02/04-02-07/news-1.html

http://www.thetimesnews.com/search/...ryFileName=../2004/04-02/04-02-07/news-2.html

 

A spokesperson from UNC states:

"Any individual has due-process rights," he said. "We have to be respectful of those rights."

http://tinylink.com/?6l73PYMWsd