When are people going stop trying to control kids minds -- there is nothing wrong with expressing yourself through a drawing. If they saw the massacres I drew when I was a kid I would have been locked up and prosecuted under PRK's capital punishment laws.
Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
Pictures Show Classmate Being Stabbed, Hung
POSTED: 1:40 am EST January 26, 2005
UPDATED: 6:50 am EST January 27, 2005
OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures.
The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill or harm another person, a second-degree felony.
The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said.
2 Students Charged With Felonies Over Stick Figure Drawings
"The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of intimidating and scaring the victim," said Ocala Police Sgt. Russ Kern.
The boy depicted in the drawings told his teacher, who took the sketches and contacted the school dean, Marty Clifford. Clifford called police, who arrested the boys after consulting with the State Attorney's Office.
They were also suspended from school.
One drawing showed the two boys standing on either side of the other boy and "holding knives pointed through" his body, according to a police report. The figures were identified by written names or initials.
Another drawing showed a stick figure hanging, tears falling from his eyes, with two other stick figures standing below him. Other pieces of scrap paper listed misspelled profanities and the initials of the boy who was allegedly threatened.
Parents of both of the arrested boys said they thought the boys should be punished by the school and families, not the legal system.
Ocala police said they stand behind the decision to arrest the children.
"When an adult or even myself look at the picture looked at it at first I was thinking there is really not much to the picture or I would not be that scared by the picture those children drew," Ocala police spokesman Russ Kearn said. "However, we have to put ourselves in his mind and that's the bottom line here. It is his well-being and the way he perceived that picture to be. It actually put him in extreme fear and he was in fear for his life."
The whole worlds going "wussified" 
:full: I use to draw some crazy stuff when I was little. Did anybody else here use to draw machine guns with a whole bunch of little dots to represent bullets? :uzi: I use to draw mostly planes dogfighting and strafing bad guys.
) and seem to remember other kids doing the same. never got in trouble for it. these !!!! 'Communists' think that such behavior out of a child is so incredible horrible and evil that they gotta take such drastic action to deal with it. clearly they've never been 
