Cops Detain Entire School, Illegally Search/Grope 900 Kids — Find NOTHING, Parents Furious

By Matt Agorist

Worth County, GA — Children feel violated, parents are furious, and a lawsuit is getting filed after the Worth County Sheriff’s office conducted an illegal search of 900 students — in the name of the war on drugs. The rights-violating intrusive and aggressive patdowns and drug dog searches yielded absolutely nothing.

On April 14, when the students of Worth County High School returned from spring break, they arrived at school to find a police state had taken over. The sheriff and his deputies — with no probable cause — detained and illegally searched every single child in the school, all 900 of them.

When kids went home that day to tell their parents what happened, naturally, they were furious as it is a gross violation of the children’s 4th Amendment rights.

“It’s essentially a fourth amendment violation,” said attorney Mark Begnaud. “It’s 900 illegal searches, suspicion-less pat downs, suspicion-less searches.”

Naturally, Sheriff Jeff Hobby is standing by this rights violation on a massive scale, noting that as long as a school administrator was present, the search of the children was legal.

Apparently, in the sheriff’s mind, school administrators can usurp the constitutional rights of children in favor of unlawful police searches.

But school officials and the student rule book disagree.

In the student handbook, it says school officials may search a student only if there is reasonable suspicion the student has an illegal item.

As WALB reports, Worth County Schools attorney Tommy Coleman said in order for the Sheriff’s office to search any students, they’d had to have reason to believe there was some kind of criminal activity or the student had possession of contraband or drugs.

“If you don’t have that then this search would violate an individual’s rights,” said Coleman. “[It] violates the constitutional right and enforcing them the right against unreasonable search and seizures.”

Interim Worth County Superintendent Lawrence Walters said he understands parents concerns about the drug search at Worth County High school on Friday, according to WALB.

“I’ve never been involved with anything like that ever in the past 21 years and I don’t condone it,” said Walters.

Walters said he was notified that there was be a search but pointed out that he did not give permission nor did he approve the mass groping of children.

“We did not give permission but they didn’t ask for permission, he just said, the sheriff, that he was going to do it after spring break,” said Walters.

“Under no circumstances did we approve touching any students,” explained Walters.

Adding insult to injury, many students complained that they got far more than just a pat down.

At least one deputy’s searches were found to be “too intrusive.”

According to Hobby, it was later discovered that one of the deputies had exceeded instructions given by Hobby and conducted a pat down of some students that was considered to be too intrusive.

When multiple students complained about being groped by the intrusive deputy, Sheriff Hobby ensured parents and school officials that “corrective action was taken to make sure the behavior will not be repeated.”

Exactly who that cop was and what ‘corrective action’ was taken, remains a mystery.

“I’m okay with them doing the search, if it was done appropriately like the school has done in the past,” said father of two Jonathan Luke. “But when they put their hands on my son, that’s crossing the line.”

Aside from not finding a single bit of contraband, the sheriff’s search was also entirely uncalled for as the Sylvester Police Department did a search on March 17 — just a few weeks before — and found no drugs.

But Hobby told reporters he didn’t think that search was thorough enough, so he decided to do his own. And, this time, he’d grope every student.

Now, many of the parents are planning a lawsuit against the Sheriff’s office which will likely be the only means of holding this man and his department accountable.

As for the 900 counts of deprivation of rights under the color of law that the sheriff should be facing, not a single charge has been levied against the department.

This is what school has become in a police state.

WALB.com, South Georgia News, Weather, Sports

Matt Agorist is the co-founder of TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. He is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. . and now on Steemit


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204 Comments on "Cops Detain Entire School, Illegally Search/Grope 900 Kids — Find NOTHING, Parents Furious"

  1. Perverted psychopaths. Their recompense is waiting…

  2. These parents should tar and feather all these bastards, or worse. Exactly why you need to home school.

    • What’s to prevent the sheriff from claiming that he has jurisdiction to do the same thing in your living room?

      • only a WELL REGULATED MILITIA.

        • Not only a well regulated militia, but a well educated and armed People, the unregulated militia.

          • William Burke | April 27, 2017 at 5:40 pm |

            The meaning of “well-regulated” at the time of the framing of the Constitution meant something like “in good working order”, and did not refer to their training or organization.

            http://www.constitution.org/cons/wellregu.htm

          • Louis Charles | April 28, 2017 at 4:11 am |

            I fail to see how anything in “good working order” could remain so without proper training and intelligent organization. I can’t. In the context of our militia: Infiltration and disruption becomes the obvious first consequence of neglect in this area. e.g., See the Hutaree episode in MI.

          • William Burke | April 28, 2017 at 2:44 pm |

            I was delineating the *MEANING* of the phrase “well-regulated” in its historical context, Louis. I was not criticizing training and organization!

            But you already knew that, didn’t you?

        • Unfortunately, this country is now filled (Unconstitutionally, by the way) with WAR WEAPONRY/tanks, etc. and FEMA Concentration Camps. You think a rag-tag bunch a angry people with high-powered rifles can match this force?? Dream on – we have to use the law and a HUGE grassroots will-of-the-people together to win this “game”. cheers

          • William Burke | April 28, 2017 at 2:46 pm |

            I think a lot of the guys with the power hardware would pretty quickly defect to our side, Elizabeth, bringing their hardware with them.

            Don’t you? I don’t think the balance of power would remain as it is now.

          • Elizabeth Martin | April 28, 2017 at 4:53 pm |

            That is a beautiful thought, William. I hope so. However, my Dad was a military intel officer who worked with nuclear missles (sp) at Fort Bliss, and w/NATO in Europe, and on the DMZ ,North Korea. I saw 6 of the nukes – different models (I still remember the names!) out in the desert as a young child – only the wives and pre-school children were allowed to go. My Dad was Cherokee, and I learned a lot of magical things about nature from him as a child. Because of this DNA or something, I’ve researched military stuff quite a lot, and heard a retired General tell about why Obama fired hundreds of high-level officers because of this “test question”: “Would you be willing to order your troops to fire on American citizens?” Those who said NO were out. Lots of them. With all the vaccines, mind-control,drugs, “super-soldier” experimentation on the young military now, as well as the horrific militarization of the police in the US, I am not sure these people would do anything BUT obey orders. All these tanks, huge helicopters, etc freely moving about the country,UNconstitutionally, by the way – as well as the hundreds of FEMA concentration camps, as well as UN Agenda 21/25/30 – horrible to read – I just don’t know. Ordinary people are becoming quite ill (physically and mentally) from the GMO “food”, aspartame, fluoride, prescription drugs, and VACCINES, I just don’t know if many people are truly human anymore.I do hope and pray that you are right. I am very spiritual, not religious, and I will add your idea to the things I think, hope, pray and work for everyday- to add to the positive energy so needed in this world we are in right now. Thank-you! cheers……..elli

          • Louis Charles | April 29, 2017 at 9:34 pm |

            They can NOT beat a WELL REGULATED MILITIA, set up and acting like “Wack-A-Mole” all over the map… as our sheriff depts have FULL DATA BASE ACCESS TO EVERY STOOGE RECEIVING A WDC CHECK…. set up with an army of drones with AA-12s and tearGas lobbers on board. AGAIN, BRING IT!!!!!

          • Louis Charles | April 29, 2017 at 9:14 pm |

            There is NOTHING worse than a NegativeNancy… Have you heard of the “deputiz’m plan”. Do you know what is now taking place in Frostproof, FL and Freeport, MI? LCharles14@yahoo.com if you want to spit your pride and join the fun.

      • My will to fire on them.

      • shotgun blast.

        • Notice in the picture at the top that they are all outfitted in Kevlar. A shotgun would be less than useless. That’s why all of my ammo is either black tip or standard (AP) rounds.

      • Notice that the office of the county sheriff is again under attack. The NWO totalitarian goon
        squad has been targeting county sheriffs for elimination. I’m not just talking about the individuals holding the office; I’m talking about the office itself.

        In law, the county sheriff has the highest law-enforcement authority in his jurisdiction. The U.N. troops and other NWO armed goon-squads are required by law to obtain permission
        from the county sheriff to operate in the county. This is inconvenient for the NWO police state enforcers. Therefore, county sheriffs all over the USA have been targeted for elimination, and the usual M.O. involves persuading people that the office of the sheriff should be eliminated
        along with the dupe who was set up to take a fall.

        In no way do I endorse the groping of human beings by law-enforcement drones. Nor do I
        endorse unreasonable searches or seizures, nor corrupt politicians lining their pockets at the expense of taxpayers or innocent civilians. In this case, because of the ongoing campaign to eliminate county sheriffs throughout the USA, I suspect that the sheriff was fed propaganda by Interpol or one of the usual NWO police-state suspects, which motivated the sheriff to make very poor decisions and violate people’s inalienable rights.

        While bringing this particular sheriff to account for his unconscionable and un-Constitutional
        violations of people’s inalienable rights, I encourage readers herein to bear in mind the end-game to eliminate authority for local law enforcement. KEEP the office of county sheriff, and choose wisely so that the office-holder is not a mere dupe in the NWO power-tripping
        game.

      • ObamaDONTcare usurped authority to commit home “safety inspections”, under the force of law. Even wrong-address under-warrant searches have been passed off as “justifiable”, leaving the injured parties without compensation (or replacement of their loved ones ).

      • a friggin AA-12 in his face!

    • Pretty pathetic advice, Menzo – all the parents jailed for violence, leaving their children to be taken by CPS, never to be seen again. A class-action LAW SUIT, for big money is the best way to go. sheeeeeeeeeesh

      • “again, with the negative waves, Moriarity”. LOL Have you ever seen the movie “Kelly’s Heros” from 1972? Stop thinking like the daughter of a socialist/fascist military officer…… Please, y’r killin’ me! LOL

  3. Lol. The Worth County SD website has been hacked. It’s a WordPress site, so not all that haxorish. Funny though.

  4. all 900 students should immediately and permanently boycott school attendance at that school district. They can make it up later in turoring or private school paid by a lawsuit.

    • Too bad the parents can’t withhold the school district’s share of their tax money. Nothing speaks to tyrants and their enablers like defunding does.

  5. The Constitution was written specifically for these types of actions, when it is violated in such a blatant manner,by those that are sworn to uphold it,we are well on our way down a slippery slope

    • The constitution has either authorized the government we have or failed to prevent it.

      • The Constitution is not something which can prevent this… The people have to prevent it. The little booklet is simply our playbook. No different than a gun not being able to protect you unless you know how to load it, aim properly and fire it accurately.

        • I know the constitution can’t prevent this because it is allegedly the law of the land and yet it still happened. Pretty much the textbook definition of “can’t prevent” if you ask me. Your metaphor is awful!

      • The Constitution is incapable of authorizing anything.

        • Forgive me. A diminished intellect may need more to grasp on to as synonyms perforate language and must be a real mess for your comprehension. I’ll use a more suitable aphorism for your aptitude at language.

          “The constitution has either [constituted] the government we have or failed to prevent it.”

          • William Burke | April 27, 2017 at 5:34 pm |

            I am sorry; you evidently have interpreted my comment as being adversarial. I had no such intention. My comment, while neutral, was a minor attempt at humor.

            I am sorry if it offended you.

          • Elizabeth Martin | April 28, 2017 at 8:01 am |

            Why apologize to someone who does not understand the difference between the Constitution, the document (*being destroyed for decades by obscene Executive Orders, mostly)) and WE THE PEOPLE who must implement it, or have it/our rights taken away? You owe no apology. His attemps at degrading you were actually pathetic and rude.

          • Louis Charles | April 29, 2017 at 9:25 pm |

            signs of Infiltrators infiltrating, hmmm? I think I’ll have my IT guy find out who and where this “lysander” really is. …cloaking as Lysander Spooner, no less. ugh. what a DORK.

          • It’s real classy to insinuate that you are doxing people. I am flattered that you want to know who I am but I’d rather not know you personally. After all, you are not above doxing people. lol. And the name calling…like I said, glad I don’t know you personally.

          • Louis Charles | May 2, 2017 at 1:50 pm |

            you fit the profile……………….

          • lysander | May 2, 2017 at 2:12 pm |

            To admit that you degrade the hapless souls subject to your opinion with the poor abstraction of “profiles” is all the evidence I need to, by default, discount everything you say as BS; lest you prove otherwise. You are an idiot.

          • Louis Charles | May 4, 2017 at 10:37 am |

            ah. being called an idiot by you is the highest honor bestowed on a Christian Patriot. Thank you!

          • I would imagine that you would take pride in being called an idiot as the truth of your intellect may be far worse. lol. Furthermore, a Christian patriot should live in Judea, the land of their religion, and leave North America to the actual patriots who love Her and not the god of some magic worshiping cult. Also, you cannot be patriotic to an ideology, only to a place; which meshes well with what I have already observed of your intellect and its ostensible limits. You jingoists are simply adorable.

          • Your “understanding” of the constitution is completely undefendable in my opinion.

            Either the constitution works and the “obscene” executive orders are legal or the constitution does not work and the orders are evidence of that fact. Either the constitution works or it doesn’t! But like a god that neglects to answer the prayers of his followers, leviathan seems able to fail in front of you over and over and still you worship it appealing to its mercy. However, I rather enjoy my freedom and think that freedom existed before government and that governments rule by the consent of the governed. I believe that there is ample evidence that the constitution has failed the republic and I think it is an ongoing joke on the people that we debate what is and what isn’t constitutional at all instead of debating on making an institution that will actual establish freedom like the constitution pretends it does.

          • It didn’t offend me. I just thought I would mock you for neglecting to play with words.

          • William Burke | May 2, 2017 at 12:39 pm |

            [SHRUG] No longer in the RVM.

          • lysander | May 2, 2017 at 2:09 pm |

            Gestures like these aren’t really good fodder for conversation. Although it does elevate your lack of character in the dialog. Snowflakes?!?!?!?! good grief.

          • William Burke | May 2, 2017 at 2:58 pm |

            It really matters very little. You’re not a very good conversationalist.

          • lysander | May 2, 2017 at 5:01 pm |

            And yet you seem determined to have one. Matters little indeed…lol

  6. These law suits should be interesting since this state is a ” Good ole Boy” state. I’d file their suits in a few out of state courts also.

    • It need to befiled in Federal court. There is NO local judge in the entire state that would ever rule against a cop. Federal judges at least aren’t Georgia Crackers.

      • Readers: Notice this persona’s (“vladilyich”) consistent slant to disempower We the People, to leave us feeling helpless against the police state, and to impugn every authority figure, especially local ones. This leads an alert observer to believe that Vlad the Impaler is once again at work, to strike at the very heart of the spirit of individual liberty in the USA. JUST SAY NO. There are effective ways to combat corruption and incompetence without surrendering our individual rights or liberties.

        • Question authority and the authorities will question you…

          • Infoblasted | April 28, 2017 at 4:02 pm |

            When the powers that be break the law we the American people are Expected to remove them from power, Man I love the USA, If you worship social dystopia that’s fine with me just don,t try that crap here, We Americans will resist this at all cost.

  7. Was it really illegal? Maybe the parents didn’t read the fine print when they enrolled their children in the public school. The moment you drop your kids off, the kids belong to the State. That’s all there is to it.

    • So its ok for the “state” to violate their Constitutional rights?

    • Courts have ruled that student’s rights do not end at the school door. While at school the principle and teachers are responsible for protecting student’s rights. If not, then the teachers and if not them the student must know and stand for his rights. But ultimately it’s the parents, through educating their children and boldly confronting the illegal activity in public schools, who bare the burden of protecting their children’s rights.

    • …so a teacher can rape your child? Idiot.

      • Slavery is illegal in all of the United States and belonging to the state doesn’t mean the state owns the child, just that it stands in place of parents for a limited period of time.

      • Well if the sick azz Democratic social elite club have there way in the near future this may just happen. These clowns handle my grandkids or grope or touch them, Cop or not i will just have to go to jail or get myself shot i will make my stand with these clowns.

    • Not so.

    • That is total B.S. the schools nor the state don’t own our kids they just want us all to buy in to that dystopia chit, Your state ownership of our kids can flake off with that social garbage,What are we now North Korea?

    • “Public School” is such a euphemism. Call them what they are: government-run, taxpayer-financed indoctrination gulags. Then ask yourself, how many bond initiatives would pass if we called the gulags what they really are? How many parents would blithely consign their children to these mind-control centers if their every reference reminded said parents about the true goals of the institution?

  8. Even *IF* the sheriff’s supposition is correct, that the presence of school administrator(s) made the search ‘legal’, was there at least one 18 year old student present and searched? 18 year olds are NOT wards of the administration.

    If any rights were violated, then 18 USC 242 should be brought to bare upon the department and willing members of the administration.

  9. Not like America of 20-30 years ago. Since 911 Americans have been subjected to more pat downs and illegal searches. Sad to say this type of police activity is becoming all too familiar. So what are the parents gonna do besides sue? I would camp outside the sheriff’s office until he resigns or is fired.

    • The school administrators are equally guilty. I don’t care what anyone says in this regard! It’s all part of the pattern of litmus tests we are all subjected to. See the movie “The Thinning”… At least they tell us what is planned for the plantation. …and basically dare us to do something about it.

      • The principle should have protected the students and ordered the police out of his school. He should have alerted parents, the mayor, a constitutional lawyer, the press and requested aid from higher authorities. The teachers should have been next in line as protectors of students. Students themselves should have been taught their rights, by parents, and resisted illegal search and seizures. Courts have ruled that student’s rights do not end at the school door.

        • You mean the principal?

          • What’s your point? Are you the grammar queen?

          • William Burke | April 27, 2017 at 12:03 am |

            It’s got absolutely nothing to do with grammar. YOU USED THE WRONG WORD.

          • Elizabeth Martin | April 27, 2017 at 6:22 pm |

            Yeah, William -sometimes you’ve just got to point it out -it’s the principle of the thing!! cheers

          • William Burke | April 27, 2017 at 6:29 pm |

            It’s a thankless task.

          • Louis Charles | April 28, 2017 at 4:02 am |

            awww. I thank you. LOL

          • Elizabeth Martin | April 28, 2017 at 6:57 am |

            Well, I thank you! People need to LEARN things they do not know,.., if they have the capacity. cheers

          • Louis Charles | April 29, 2017 at 9:18 pm |

            I see you are following me like a shadow! Again, THANK YOU. Please feel free to email: LCharles14@yahoo.com We could use some help spreading the word about Focus on Frostproof and Focus on Freeport. Free City Projects.

          • mangomuffin2 | April 28, 2017 at 8:40 pm |

            I backed you up, too!

          • Actually, there are indeed principles that should have protected the students, but it would have taken a highly principled principal to attempt to enforce those principles against an unprincipled sheriff who seems to be the principal lawbreaker in that community.

          • mangomuffin2 | April 28, 2017 at 8:39 pm |

            Yes, I prefer “Your Highness” 😉 Let’s not bastardize the language any more than necessary and help Bill Gates and company destroy America further. Just a little less ragged around the edges, is all.

          • mangomuffin2 | April 28, 2017 at 8:25 pm |

            He’s your “pal”! (or not)

        • “Courts have ruled that student’s rights do not end at the school door.” Can you cite prior rulings in this regard? Because I don’t think you are exactly correct. Students are not without rights; but they certainly have diminished rights in the eyes of the court.

    • Good point. “Sue”. So what happens if they win? These same people will pick up the tab through their property taxes. He is not going to resign and he is not “hired” so he can’t be fired, as if he was a city police chief. He has to be RECALLED through the electoral process…. And he, and every one of his complicit deputies “just doing their job” should be criminally prosecuted under Title 18, Sec. 241 and 242. And if the DA doesn’t bring forth the charges, he needs to be recalled, too. The Constitution is a tool. If we don’t use it, we deserve this abuse.

      • Notice that the office of the county sheriff is again under attack.

        Notice that the bad guy was the county sheriff. The NWO totalitarian goon squad has been targeting county sheriffs for elimination. I’m not just talking about the individuals holding the office; I’m talking about the office itself.

        In law, the county sheriff has the highest law-enforcement authority in his jurisdiction. The U.N. troops and other NWO armed goon-squads are required by law to obtain permission
        from the county sheriff to operate in the county. This is inconvenient for the NWO police state enforcers. Therefore, county sheriffs all over the USA have been targeted for elimination, and the usual M.O. involves persuading people that the office of the sheriff should be eliminated along with the dupe who was set up to take a fall.

        In no way do I endorse the groping of human beings by law-enforcement drones. Nor do I endorse unreasonable searches or seizures, nor corrupt politicians lining their pockets at the expense of taxpayers or innocent civilians. In this case, because of the ongoing campaign to eliminate county sheriffs throughout the USA, I suspect that the sheriff was fed propaganda by Interpol or one of the usual NWO police-state suspects, which motivated the sheriff to make very poor decisions and violate people’s inalienable rights.

        While bringing this particular sheriff to account for his unconscionable and un-Constitutional violations of people’s inalienable rights, I encourage readers herein to bear in mind the end-game to eliminate authority for local law enforcement. KEEP the office of county sheriff, and choose wisely so that the office-holder is not a mere dupe in the NWO power-tripping game.

        • who shall determine the End Game, Sandy? NWO stooges who thrive on counterfeit e-currency or We The Deplorables? Polk Co., FL… with the epicenter being Frostproof, FL will give us the answer in the near future. Email me at LCharles14@yahoo.com and I’ll fill you in. Anyone reading this is also welcome to email me.

        • Thanks for the sovereign citizen drivel. Some county sheriffs and deputies abuse the constitutional rights of citizens. They too must be held accountable.

          • Ron Helton | April 27, 2017 at 2:19 pm |

            He stated that. He is saying punish the sheriff, but don’t abolish the office of Sheriff.

          • Elizabeth Martin | April 28, 2017 at 7:24 am |

            What is “sovereign citizen drivel”??? I thought our Constitution was created so we could EACH be “sovereign” of our own lives, bodies, in our homes, etc. under the laws and Constitutional protections it (once) guaranteed citizens. Antone know what this “drivel” is? Thx..

          • Louis Charles | April 29, 2017 at 9:20 pm |

            Ironically, it’s We the Sovereigns who are THE ONLY ONES INTERESTED IN HOLDING ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE! We are the only ones not dependent on government licensure and a check from a government! Wake up, Mike. You are making zero sense.

        • If a County Sheriff does NOT respect citizens’ Constitutional rights, then s/he deserves to be removed – period. Police violence and over-reach is out of control, as aware citizens know. That is NOT the same as eliminating the office of County Sheriff in any way.Plus, the end-game is to ELIMINATE most citizens (not just in the Middle East, but Europe, the USA -everywhere.) if you read the United Nation’s plans that have been progressing for decades, you will find this is for real.. I, for one, do not wish the USA and the world to become the NWO Fourth Reich, which is rising in power and taking us down in every way, every state, every country, every day. cheers

          • Louis Charles | April 29, 2017 at 9:21 pm |

            I bet I know where you got that name… (assuming it’s not your real name)

          • Elizabeth Martin | May 1, 2017 at 9:07 am |

            I got my name from my parents. It;s actually Dr. Elizabeth Martin. WHERE do you think i got my name, Mr. Charles? Just curious………

          • Louis Charles | May 1, 2017 at 12:14 pm |

            Miss… or Mrs. Doc Martin: Have you seen Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Patriot” from 2000AD? I mean, you do realize that many of the folks who post on these type of forums use pseudonyms, for obvious reasons. LOL Now, as for Dr. Martin. What kind of doctor are you? I mean, in here, you could even be the woman who those women’s shoes/boots were named after… the ones real popular with the angry feminazis of the mid-90s. LOL

          • Elizabeth Martin | May 3, 2017 at 10:19 am |

            I am a DC/Integrative Physician. I am NOT “Miss”,nor “Ms”, nor “Mrs.” – I am divorced. The boots “Doc Martins” you reference are actually a British company, NOT a women’s company- an excellent quality brand, made for men originally – became v.popular in Europe( and Seattle) LONG before these nut-case feminazis arose in the US (they seem to be mentally ill to me, but I’m no shrink). I have several pairs of lovely, non-combat-style Doc Martins, the most combatty pair I have are white with dainty red and pink roses w/green leaves!! I am NOT a “Feminist”, although I believe in equal pay for women for equivalent work- not yet achieved.I am a “humanist”, I suppose – I’ve always had many male friends throughout my life, as well as girlfriends. Have you ever seen “Doc Martin”, the BBC series? Hilarious – but I have a British sense of humor (from my Mum). I have not seen “The Patriot”. cheers

      • Every one that took part in that search is chargeable under 18 usc 241 that carries a fine of $10,000 or 10 years in jail or both for each and every child. Look it up!

        • priceless? perhaps your handle should be “price is right”!! Yes. This is exactly what I was alluding to when I made the original post; a certain spirit I was attempting to evoke. Thank you for picking up on it. Please contact me off list to see what is being done in 2 specific locations: Frostproof, FL and Freeport, MI. LCharles14@yahoo.com We have two well respected, prominent public officials ALL IN on this concept. Vice Mayor Martin Sullivan in Frostproof; Sheriff Dar Leaf of Barry Co., MI (in which Freeport is located)

    • Real this azz hole. If it were my sheriff. I would ask him to step down and read th CONSTITUTION.Then I would sue his azz for all he would ever accumulate.

      CASE CLOSED!

      • bravo1:

        Well, that’s a good start.

        But, there is so much more along with a lawsuit too a person could do to fix Sheriff problems in Worth County, GA.

        And, that’s just one person doing something. Imagine 900 irate parents of the groped children doing all they can do too.

        Changes would likely come quickly to the Sheriff grouping school children problems in Worth County, GA.

        Be part of spreading the word to every TV, Radio, Newspapers, Internet News and various sites, United States and Georgia State Congresspersons, CALL GA Governor Nathan Deal office, and others.

        Make Sheriff Jeff Hobby of Worth Co., GA famous.

        • A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, being necessary for the security of a Free State……………… sound familiar? Email me at LCharles14@yahoo.com and see what we are up to in Frostproof, FL towards that end. This crap won’t be happening in Polk Co., FL!!!

      • No, it is NOT just the sheriff who should be prosecuted, it is the school officials AND all the police officers mindlessly following Unconstitutional /immoral/anti-human orders – outlawed after the Nuremberg Trials of the Nazis, if you know some history. The CASE IS NOT CLOSED – it has not even begun.

      • bravo. Did you really mean “ask” ? Do you think he would just resign voluntarily? LOL …regardless of whether or not he reads the constitution. He might be like GWBush and believe it’s nothing but toilet paper…. or Oboingo and believe it’s just something of a challenge to circumvent when he feels like it.

    • good idea

  10. NJguy - Proudly Deplorable | April 25, 2017 at 8:19 am |

    Should have used the time and manpower to search for illegals.

  11. Let’s hope that some of the sheeple parents will be awakened by this violation of their children. It’s way past time.

    • Every parent sentencing their kids to govSchool hell needs to watch the recent movie “The Thinning” Search YouTube. Amazing stuff!

      • Agree. It’s taken me over 30 years (and counting) to passably overcome the ‘idiot zombie’ virus that was implanted by public schools.

      • These parents need to research COMMON CORE – it is truly sickening, with Bill Gates and a few other billionaires advancing this agenda (behind closed doors, patents and secrecy, BIG MONEY for these few “owners”)) that has been worked on for well over a century, beginning in Germany, Britain and US.

        • yes. And these parents need to pull their kids out of this rat trap, commieManifesto prescribed “education” system funded by STOLEN MONEY, along with endless streams of counterfeit money from the Fed

  12. …drag The Sheriff out of their office….charge and convict them for treason…then hang them.
    RJ O’Guillory

  13. We have become a police state where ‘Protect and Serve’ is no longer the goal of most officers. It has long been replaced by ‘Enforce the Law’. Police Officers were once citizen sheep dogs. There to serve their community and protect the Constitution. What they’ve become is mindless government lap dogs…bulldogs on the end of tyranny’s leash. Eager to destroy citizens and take their property in service to corrupt government agents. Enforcing distinctly unconstitutional, unjust and immoral laws. Laws written in secret and in violation of existing law.

  14. These glorified mall cops are a joke from top to bottom…. they have NO jurisdiction over ANY man or woman and people need to wake up…they are nothing more than thugs with guns and it is about time they are all brought into a court moving under common law [which is NOT legal crap/fiction/fraud]… and liquidate their entire corporation… jail and fire every man or woman executive at this mall cop shop and strip them of their pensions…. do that just ONCE to these idiots who are ignorant beyond words and these rats will not so much as speak to the people unless they are spoken too…as it should be. PIGS all of them involved in this I hope they are all sued to the wall.

  15. How do anarchoCaps propose we prevent or punish this sort of behavior?

    • What “anarchoCap” are you addressing?

      • not “what”, but “who” am I addressing? I am addressing those who propose we have ZERO government. Anarcho Capitalists… Voluntaryists. Anarchists. Pick a name, the game is the same.

        • Piffle. Capitalists LOVE government, when it’s bent to their purposes.

          • Louis Charles | April 25, 2017 at 5:31 pm |

            Do a search on Mr. Larkin Rose or Mr. Adam Kokesh. Come out of your state of ignorance, already.

          • William Burke | April 25, 2017 at 5:38 pm |

            I am familiar with them both, Louie. Neither have much to do with Capitalism, name-caller.

            Oh – sit on it and rotate like you used to.

          • ActaNonVerba | April 25, 2017 at 9:05 pm |

            I bet william burp cant provide a successful and thriving socialist county that’s the same size as the USA- in population and land mass….

            If he’s insinuating that Capitalism is a bad thing.

          • ActaNonVerba | April 25, 2017 at 9:00 pm |

            (Fill in the blank) LOVE government, when it’s bent to their purposes.

            I know you’re not that stupid. But ive been wrong many times….

          • William Burke | April 25, 2017 at 10:32 pm |

            Surprise me. Dispute something specific, with facts, instead of impotent innuendo.
            It really would surprise me, because what I wrote is 100% factual. Unlike anything you’ve written.

  16. Please see the movie “The Thinning”. …and the point of this “search” will make more sense.

  17. Aren’t we so proud of our nation allowing the combination of education and state? Aren’t we so proud of our parents who give their children to the most evil, vile, tyrannical institution ever devised by mankind: government! ? And aren’t we even more proud of EVERY property owner who passively feeds this “education” beast with their annual property tax payment? In this land of 300million plus, I only know of ONE MAN (in Montcalm Co., MI) who is legally challenging this wrongful theft. I guess everyone else loves the abuse……. That’s what I call AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, huh?

    • Louis, the problem is not “government”, it is that private foreign corporations are allowed to pretend they are a government. Call them what they are, corporations. They have no more authority to act as a government than does Walmart.

      • I can’t vote for the CEO of WalMart, but I can’ vote for my Sheriff. …and work to recall him should he violate any part of the Bill of Rights. My sheriff is NOT owned by any friggin’ corporation, foreign or domestic. My sheriff is named Dar Leaf. Have you heard of him? Barry Co., MI. Focus on Freeport…… Email me: LCharles14@yahoo.com for further explanation of what is taking place to stop this Title 18, Sec. 241 violating govStooges activity.

        • Your Sheriff almost certainly possesses an SSN, and an in force w-4, which would make him a trustee of the United States government. Your state, county and city almost certainly also has EINs issued by the IRS, making all of them federal corporations, subject to the private law those corporations put out as real law. If they were not federal corporations of the PRIVATE USG corp, they would not be issued those numbers as a matter of law.

          I understand where you are coming from, but if you VOTE you are also acting in a trustee role for the corporation known as the United States Government. Through the SSA, a trust was created with the grantor being the SSA, the trustees being the number holders, and the beneficiary is the USG corp.

          The mission statement on your sheriffs website makes it clear that he is a “law enforcement officer” acting in a statutory capacity enforcing the private law put out by the State of Michigan in it’s capacity as a private federal corporation. Even the LOGO is an all caps, indicating a corporate existence.

          I also know full well about the color of law statutes. By claiming that as a remedy, unlikely to be enforced in a court of necessity, you are admitting the status of your state is a private US corp functioning under color of law with no lawful authority. As such, your Sheriff will enforce those color of law statutes against YOU, as another trustee, because that is what he is paid to do.

          He may protect you from other people, but not if those people are in a uniform acting in the same capacity he is. Your trust is misplaced, and your true understanding of the situation is limited.

          I don’t mean that in a bad way or as a personal attack, just as a statement of fact.

          • Louis Charles | April 27, 2017 at 4:33 pm |

            First of all, don’t presume what I do and don’t have “true understanding” of. That would surely limit what you might attain from my 40 years of wisdom garnered in this fight. Second, I do agree with your bringing forth the issue of a sheriff being under IRS and SSN control…. and “contract”. So, what if we elected a sheriff who got out from that yoke and simply received his check from the County Commissioners as a 1099r? That’s how I always did it with my Gold Standard Press customers. I have NEVER filed a 1040, nor will I ever. The IRS has confirmed that my “tax ID” number is 999-99-9999 and legally classifies me as “non filer”. email me: LCharles14@yahoo.com. Let’s discuss getting you elected to Polk Co., FL or Barry Co., MI, County Commission in ’18. It would be an honor to run your campaign. Pay me ONLY when you win. Sam: Do you know either, John Ludke, “Shorty” or Andrew Ouwenga? I do need to hook you up with these 3!!!!

          • Sam Oconnel | April 28, 2017 at 3:36 pm |

            You have done all you can do for yourself. The only “mistake” is believing that anyone will be there to support when the criminals turn their guns on you, whether it be the Sheriff or anybody else.

            All we can hope to do is achieve freedom on a personal level. Just make sure you can protect it without outside help from people who are most likely compromised.

          • Louis Charles | April 29, 2017 at 9:11 pm |

            oh, my good man. You are wrong. Please Focus on Freeport… The Free City Project taking place in Barry Co., MI LCharles14@yahoo.com if you want to know more about it.

  18. School policy does not trump Constitutional rights … freaking idiots running the school and the police in that place.

  19. Welcome to the Great United Soviet Socialist Satanic Stasi States of Amerika, Komrades! Brought to you by the Bolshevik Commie Zionist Pervert Joos who now run the GUSSSSSA.

  20. The sheriff needs to resign and the school board needs to be impeached. If you stand still for rights violations as egregious as this one, you deserve what you get.

    • Perhaps the sheriff should indeed resign, or be impeached. Nevertheless, retain the OFFICE of your county sheriff, and reach out to reputable people of good character to seek the office. This is a powerful way to resist the infiltration of the powers that be in the NWO.

  21. Lol..this is America..cops do whatever they want. You don’t have rights. You have AUTHORITY!

    • ONLY true if people bow to your assertions of reality. Your screen name implies you’re an anonymous drone working against We the People and FOR the NWO.

      Notice that the office of the county sheriff is again under attack. The NWO totalitarian goon
      squad has been targeting county sheriffs for elimination. I’m not just talking about the individuals holding the office; I’m talking about the office itself.

      In law, the county sheriff has the highest law-enforcement authority in his jurisdiction. The U.N. troops and other NWO armed goon-squads are required by law to obtain permission from the county sheriff to operate in the county. This is inconvenient for the NWO police state enforcers. Therefore, county sheriffs all over the USA have been targeted for elimination, and the usual M.O. involves
      persuading people that the office of the sheriff should be eliminated along with the dupe who was set up to take a fall.

      In no way do I endorse the groping of human beings by law-enforcement drones. Nor do I endorse unreasonable searches or seizures, nor corrupt politicians lining their pockets at the expense of taxpayers or innocent civilians. In this case, because of the ongoing campaign to eliminate county
      sheriffs throughout the USA, I suspect that the sheriff was fed propaganda by Interpol or one of the usual NWO police-state suspects, which motivated the sheriff to make very poor decisions and violate people’s inalienable rights.

      While bringing this particular sheriff to account for his unconscionable and un-Constitutional
      violations of people’s inalienable rights, I encourage readers herein to bear in mind the end-game to eliminate authority for local law enforcement. KEEP the office of county sheriff, and choose wisely so
      that the office-holder is not a mere dupe in the NWO power-tripping game.

  22. In the 1950’s and 1960’s daddies of the school children who were groped would have taken care of the local county Sheriff problem … their way.

    The reason women and children are groped in this country is because daddies and husbands don’t put a stop to it.

    Nationwide there are usually more men in any county than there are police officers or deputy sheriffs.

    People are treated like sheep because they do not respond to atrocities like wolves.

  23. “in loco parentis” works both ways. Or should. If the school administrators consented to this search of their students then it would undoubtedly hold up in court. If the administrators did not consent then, IMHO, they failed to meet the burden of their “in loco parentis” obligations.
    My local school district conducts urine drug screenings of student athletes. Again IMHO, this is a 4th Amendment violation as a “suspicion-less” search. But courts have agreed that it is legal.
    But, as we know, “legal” does not mean “Constitutional” nor does it mean “moral” by any stretch.

    • Joining a team is voluntary & if that is the condition you agreed to then so be it; but school is mandatory & these ki9ds should be protected. Don’t care if the officer was corrected either; the damage is done & he needs to be charged for molesting a minor.

  24. Have y’all been hearing about what’s taking place in Frostproof, FL? LCharles14@yahoo.com and I’ll tell you.

  25. ACLJ, American Center for Law and Justice, with more than one million members specializes in civil right cases and has successfully argued many U.S. Constitutional rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

    They usually handle these type cases for free because it effects school children all over America.There is contact information on their web site.

    If interested in a search engine type:

    Jay Sekulow | American Center for Law and Justice

  26. Dude stop with the popups and close windows.
    Once might be okay, but I probably wont come back with all the obnoxious marketing tricks.

  27. The police state is not coming… it is already here…

    • Yes, but it can go away, too.

      • Yes, it can. Kudos to you for being aware that this is still an option, The more of us who are thusly aware, the more likely the return of our inalienable rights will be.

      • What is your prescription to make it go away? I’m all ears and eyes, mangoM2

        • Well, for starters, I would stand up for your principles in whatever situation you find yourself. For example, no one has to cave in to the trend to be confused about one’s gender to help foster the globalist agenda. Just Say No! Support your neighbors; they’re probably great people, if they’re not politicians. Only a handful of evil, scummy people cause a HUGE, disproportionate amount of trouble, because no one stops them. Start locally, build support networks, so no one has to feel like they’re alone in fighting the beast.

          • Louis Charles | April 29, 2017 at 9:08 pm |

            LOL “mangomuffin” Where did that name come from?

          • mangomuffin2 | April 30, 2017 at 5:27 pm |

            Actually, a combination of a favorite fruit and a pet name…I still want someone to bake a batch for me, though 😉

  28. Two words ,”Charter Schools”

  29. My school brought a drug dog in (2002-ish) to sniff around the lockers. Even then, I would never have complied with any search of my locker, or my person. Teach your kids to stand up for their rights.

    • No parent who sends his kid to govSchool has any concept of Rights. NOT A CLUE.

      • Without a doubt i seen this creeping in our schools in the 80’s the theme was your kids belong to a community not the parents. And of course Common Core in the later years kicked the can farther down the road.What’s scary is if they had no problem doing this to school children just how far will they go for there masters.

  30. michal109@hotmail.com | April 25, 2017 at 5:53 pm |

    Soooo – Georgia is experiencing A LOT of things lately.

  31. Please notify Jeff Sessions & Trump about this tyrannical violation of the 4TH amendment. I wonder who really ordered this?

    • Whoever paid the sheriff to do it? I’m guessing some globalist tool. Gotta test the waters, right?

      • I’m guessing that the sheriff was deceived by some tool of the NWO. Could have been Interpol, the FBI, or some arsehat working for the CIA… in any case, the M.O. is to remove both the sheriff and the office of the county sheriff. When there is no county sheriff, the NWO is free to move in U.N. and foreign troops and operate as they please without oversight or limitation.

        Your county sheriff is the thin blue line between local law enforcement and NWO goon-squad hive-mind enforcer drones. Be sure NOT to throw the baby out with the bath-water, friends in Georgia!

  32. Look here you sick piece of (s) I am praying that one of those angry parents take YOU OUT WITH A 12GA. Preferably starting in the crotch area first. If you live through that then they can work their way up, until there is nothing left but shreds of flesh. If you want a war you mother FKkR, you are going to get one, and believe there is one hell of a lot more of us than there are of you !!!

  33. So find out where Jeff hobby lives, kick the door in and conduct a pat down on his kids and wife. Your just exercising your authority to ensure no Isis is in the immediate area.

  34. sElections have consequences, Comrades. Who selected this Bozo Sheriff? and will he be REsElected???
    Send the link to the GA Governor (a putz) and Atty Gen who could order a State Investigation.
    If the parents file a suit in Feral Court the feathers will fly. The FIB will investigate and love to get a scalp.
    It’s really a crying shame as Constitutional Sheriffs are the people’s last barrier against Police Tyranny from the Feral Gov. but when the Sheriff goes bad you have to OUST him pronto.

  35. Every child in that school should be instructed in depth as to their Constitutional rights. I doubt the school will use this as an opportunity for a teaching moment, though.

  36. Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Activist Post. This alone is proof if they don’t like what your opinion is they will not show it. What a joke and we preach to the globe how they should be free like us really.

    • Disqus is constantly removing my comments…

      • It is not Disqus. Each site can set the language filters tight or loose.

        • Seems to be no rhyme or reason, but some comments just get removed over and over again, even though they are NOT offensive. It’s like there are certain political themes that they don’t want mentioned, whoever is doing it.

          • Ron Helton | April 27, 2017 at 8:37 pm |

            I know. Experienced the same and none of the words I used were vulgar. Certain words can be used as slang for words that are vulgar. The reason for this is the person(s) who run the comment section are too lazy to actively monitor the discussion, so they just make the filters very restrictive on language.

          • mangomuffin2 | April 27, 2017 at 10:24 pm |

            I’ve probably been taking it more personally than I should have…

          • Been there, done that. ; )

  37. You do know the supreme court ruled that cops are not expected to protect and serve us any more don’t you?The clowns that went along with this dystopia 1984 crap are not good cops just doing there jobs,Patriotic cops would have rejected this order,Look people hate I to be so blunt but someone has to, If they will do this to your kids they for sure will shoot them if ordered by there masters, In another ten years or so they will have all of us walking around like good little robots, No opinions or jail,talk out of turn jail,Wake up people it’s here now. Boogle and yourtube is blocking the crap out of a lot of content now, most of these boards are closing comment sections down all together, So much for your free speech they will have that vanished in the next two years. You may hurt peoples wittle fewings if your opinion is not in line with them.

  38. there is a way to end these intrusions and violations of our constitutional rights. Vote in local judiciary that will bring charges against violators and sentence them to the fullest extent of the law. After a few prosecutions it will make them think twice before violating us again and we continue this process until we have installed constitutional representation up to the federal level.We also have to take back the power that they gave to themselves and return it to its rightful owners “we the people”. This happens because we let it happen. Screw me once shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. These people are our neighbors, make them ashamed of their behavior. Get in their face and let them and their families know. Make it uncomfortable for them to live in our community. You don’t have to use violence but you don’t have to be their friend either.

  39. Notice that the bad guy was the county sheriff. The NWO totalitarian goon squad has been targeting county sheriffs for elimination. I’m not just talking about the individuals holding the office; I’m talking about the office itself.

    In law, the county sheriff has the highest law-enforcement authority in his jurisdiction. The U.N. troops and other NWO armed goon-squads are required by law to obtain permission from the county sheriff to operate in the county. Therefore, county sheriffs all over the USA have been targeted for elimination, and the usual M.O. involves persuading people that the office of the sheriff should be eliminated along with the dupe who was set up to take a fall.

    In no way do I endorse the groping of human beings by law-enforcement drones. Nor do I endorse corrupt politicians lining their pockets at the expense of taxpayers or innocent civilians. In this case, because of the ongoing campaign to eliminate county sheriffs throughout the USA, I suspect that the sheriff was fed propaganda by Interpol or one of the usual NWO police-state suspects, which motivated the sheriff to make very poor decisions and violate people’s inalienable rights.

    While bringing this particular sheriff to account for his unconscionable and un-Constitutional violations of people’s inalienable rights, I encourage readers herein to bear in mind the end-game to eliminate authority for local law enforcement. KEEP the office of county sheriff, and choose wisely so that the office-holder is not a mere dupe in the NWO power-tripping game.

    • That is an extremely important point to be made, the average citizen has no knowledge concerning the importance of the office of the County Sheriff in protecting our True Civil Liberties from the Federal Institutions.

  40. So… not one teacher, or not one student evoked their rights? And not one student … out of 900, called a parent?? LOL. They all got searched and groped, got on with their day .. and waited to get home to tell mommy? You passed their test America. Idiots.

  41. The revolt is coming and all cops will pay

  42. BADGES are REDCOATS.

    WELCOME TO THE 1770s

  43. I hope they sue all ‘entities’ involved on a personal level.
    All those involved should personally apologize.
    Boycott the school and pull all children out.
    Next thing ya know the ex potus and his child pedophile friends will be ‘vacationing’ off the cost of Georgia.

  44. Don’t sue the “office”, sue the man and take everything he owns or ever will own. US code 18-242… 900 million in restitution and 900 years in jail sounds about right.

  45. Are the troops still guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan? Are the CIA still suppliers of the goods? Perhaps we could start here.

  46. Just more programming to prepare them for what’s coming in the future. Normalizing what should be illegal.

  47. The “War on Drugs” is nothing but a justification for fascism.

  48. The cowardly Sheriff has now taken down their Facebook Page because of the outcry against this. And their website has no email contact option. However, there’s no statement that he’s re-thought his position on unconstitutional abuse of children. The phone number for the coward is (229) 776-8211 or (229) 776-8212. Use it liberally for polite suggestions that the Sheriff either review his oath to uphold both the laws and the Constitution, and determine to follow it, or resign.

  49. Gregory Alan of Johnson | April 26, 2017 at 1:58 pm |

    Home School.

  50. DRUG RAIDS ARE COMMON IN MY LITTLE HOME TOWN OF OREGON IL .HOW FAR THEY GO I NOT SURE .BUT THERE DO IT AT WILL.WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE A RAID. AND METAL DETECTORS AS WELL .KIDS ARE MADE TO BE OBEDIENT TO ANY AUTHORITY. THATS THE PLAN A COMPLETELY OBEDIENT AND INSOUCIANT .

  51. Looks more like a prison than a school. Well you send your children to government schools and this is what you get.

  52. if they had found drugs you would be singing prais for the police. In this day and age of students carrying guns and drugs are rampant in many schools I think an ounce of prevention is called for

  53. Not that it should matter – but the article does not mention if this school is home to predominantly Black students.. I would venture to guess it is a “black” school because the US gestapos state, I mean “Law Enforcement” would never do such a thing to innocent white children..

  54. This pathetic excuse for law enforcement should be taken out and hanged…

  55. This is Judeo Fascism at its finest….

  56. Those of you saying the principal or school officials should have “stood up” for the students must remember this happened in S. Georgia, the “go along to get along” capital of the U.S. Bad things happen to those who don’t “go along”.

    • Yep like New Orleans removing confederate statues with snipers protecting the removers, The people are allowing these goons to strip them of there history, Make no mistake people if they agree your states flag or history is not in tune with them, You will be next bank on it.

  57. All of these endless wars and the removal of our democratic rights have mostly happened since 9/11. Well, I’ve got news for you in case you haven’t figured it out already –9/11 was a hoax. A Hollywood production. A psyops, a false flag. Sure, thousands died that day and many thousands more since who worked at ground zero and got cancers from inhaling all those toxins in the dust. But fanatical Muslims didn’t do it. The Israeli Mossad did it, with the Pentagon and CIA’s help. And virtually all of these terrorist attacks since then have been just as phony when the evidence is examined closely. The 1/100th of 1% uses its government and media to keep us in constant fear. My God, even the police look like the military these days, treating the American public like the enemy.

    Voting is useless. We need to massively organize in the millions, march on the capitals in every state, and demand our tax money be used for our benefit, or else we won’t pay any more. Right now we are scared of them. That’s wrong, folks. They are our elected servants. They should be a little scared of us

  58. Recall election.

  59. Remember, this is the same state that said that the City of Atlanta was not financially liable for the injuries to an infant in whose crib their police tossed a flash bang grenade in a no-knock raid that didn’t turn up the criminal they wanted.

  60. Corrupted USDOJ protects & support several terrorists in uniform of police officers & their under control criminal people in state of Crimemachusetts. Terrorists from FBI, Springfield, MA organized a police mafia, they do destroy families, kidnap the children, change the day of birth & sell for criminal people. They do-opens illegally criminal cases against people, they stole a private properties, houses,cars-stolen cars reregisters for criminal people. They sents a people in crazyhouse without court decision. They illegally registers cars under different names & this cars intentionaly a puts under road accidents and illegally received from insurance company. Department od State, Washington D.C opened a criminal case H20170279 against several terrorists in uniform of police officers & their under control criminal people. But Corrupted USDOJ ignored to investigate this case & protects and support terrorists from FBI. Where is Constitution United States ???.

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