OAKLAND (KRON) -- Some teachers in Oakland are rallying behind two students who were interrogated by the Secret Service. That followed remarks the teenagers made about the President during a class discussion. The incident has many people angry.
For years the classroom has been the setting for the free expression of ideas, but two weeks ago certain ideas led to two students being taken out of class and grilled by the United States Secret Service.
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"When one of the students asked, 'do we have to talk now? Can we be silent? Can we get legal council?' they were told, 'we own you, you don't have any legal rights,'" Felson says.
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Its good that there is nobody listening that closely in AU classrooms when I speak my mind less than a mile from Dick Cheney's house, several embassies, and across the street from the Homeland Security Department. If I happen to not come home some day after school, you all know why. Eeek.

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