by Datechguy | November 18th, 2011
One of the things I’ve said for years is “the internet is forever”. If you’re going to say or do something on the internet, it is wise to remember your mother, your children or even more importantly a future potential employer may see it long after you regret your actions.
This is a lesson that is being learned the hard way by students at the St. Mary’s Academy and their teacher Ceiia Bard.
Saint Mary’s Academy is an Independent Catholic School” (That’s how the school was described to me, the assistant to the president a new hire was unable to tell me if they were in full communion with Rome) in greater Denver. Last Friday Ms. Bard thought it would be a good idea to take her class to the Occupy Denver encampment and furthermore join a group of the occupods as they attempted to storm Blogcon 11.
The story of the attempts of the occupods to disrupt the conference has been told more than once, however I have yet to touch upon Ms. Bard and her charges.
Personally I gave very little attention to Ms. Bard and her students when I saw them at the hotel, believing they were merely bystanders who happened to be present when the Occupods made their move. However other people at the event thought differently and confronted Ms. Bard directly
Ms. Bard’s attempt to keep herself and her student anonymous at a conference populated by 100′s of people who either as a hobby or for a living produce and disseminate information on the internet was laughable but as you can see by the video although her judgement might be suspect, there is no evidence that she cross any lines of decorum.
That unfortunately can’t be said for the young ladies she teaches (Language Warning)
Now this certainly doesn’t come up to the level of lets say Misfit politics in terms of vulgarity, but one would think that if you are attending a $14k a year “Independent Catholic School” you would know enough to act in a way that doesn’t reflect on said school or yourselves. Their “Independent Catholic School” must not have the nuns mine normal parish school did.
Since getting home I’ve called the school twice for comment, the first time I was given to the voice mail of the president, the 2nd time I spoke to the president’s assistant who informed me she was not authorized to speak on such matters. As I plan on talking about this on the show tomorrow I gave her an e-mail address to reach me with any kind of statement that the school might want to give concerning it. (Still no sign of one so far).
I have a sneaking suspicion that the young ladies although apparently not well-educated on decorum, economics or political reality are getting a crash course on physics, specifically cause and effect:
Apparently with a week to think about it and calls coming into the school inquiring about the event someone has decided that this might not be the image the school or the students want to project, so they apparently have launched a complaint to youtube thus…
And now, YouTube has given me 48 hours to address vague privacy concerns — in a video taken when Occupy Denver protesters crashed a private event and were filmed (by me and others) doing so.
That I happened to catch several students whose school and teacher have argued were there merely to “observe” actually joining in with the protesters is not a “privacy issue.” It’s a “yes, you should be embarrassed, because your official statements to the local Denver media don’t jibe with the actual real-time evidence” issue — one that, as good little leftists, the school, or the students, or the students’ representatives, etc., are hoping to airbrush out of existence.
Or at least, to make it harder for people to find.
And here we’ve been told that this class was but an idealistic group of young truthseekers, led by a principled and courageous teacher whose goal it was to introduce this eager young minds to the workings of a democratic republic.
Funny how the search for Truth is so conveniently dismissed as banal tripe when the Truth just so happens to paint the self-described truth seekers as the little wannabe-tyrants that they so willingly and publicly presented themselves to be.
As this was a news story covered by the Denver Press the whole privacy issues should be totally moot, what won’t be moot is that people who recognize these students will likely be mentioning it on facebook and linking to said videos thus associating their names with them, furthermore said names once linked will start turning up on google searches etc in the future when these young deluded ladies decide to seek employment.
Perhaps at their expensive school they can be taught this poem that dates from a 1936 book The Best Loved Poems of the American People called: Judged by the company one keeps:
One night in late October,
when I was far from sober,
Returning with my load, with manly pride;
My feet began to stutter,
So I lay down in the gutter,
And a pig came up an’ lay down by my side;
A lady passing by was heard to say:
‘You can tell a man who “boozes”
by the company he chooses’
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
I hope the young ladies learn the right lesson from this experience, ignorance might be bliss, but in the internet age stupidity is forever.
