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Anti-Obama Posters Hit Schools

A Bonner County man has come forward to claim responsibility for posting images depicting President Brack Obama in Nazi regalia on the doors of three local schools. Matt Hathaway, 33, said he posted the images at Washington Elementary, Farmin Stidwell and Sandpoint High School on the morning of Sept. 8 to protest the president's nationwide address to students. "I believe that Mr. Obama can contact our kids any time he choose, I should have tthe right to go ahead and place what I feel on the school grounds," Hathaway (a former Bonner County deputy) said in remarks aired on KPND radio. The posters, which were approximately 8 1/2 inches by 11 inces in size, likened Obama to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, according to Lake Pend Oreille School District. Superintendent Dick Cvitanich/Connor Christofferson & Keith Kinnaird, Bonner County Bee. More here.

Question: In the KPND broadcast, Hathaway said that the school district told him that he wouldn't pursue charges if he apologized. Hathaway said he would rather face trial than apologize. Yet, the school district still has elected not to pursue charges. What should the school district do?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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