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A 16 year old boy came to school on halloween as Adolf Hitler. Not only that but he was jewish!November 1, 2006 -- A student at a Brooklyn high school named for a prominent Jewish educator faced a blitzkrieg of trouble yesterday when he arrived dressed as Adolf Hitler for Halloween.
Walter Petryk, 16, insisted his masquerade was a lampoon of the Nazi dictator - but administrators at Leon M. Goldstein HS declared autumn for Hitler and detained Petryk as their "prisoner of war."
The junior honors student, who grew a moustache for the occasion, was pulled out of his second-period English class and told to remove his beige coat bearing a red swastika armband or risk spending the day in the of fice.
"Excuse me, fuhrer, can I talk to you for a minute?" is how Petryk recalled the dean, Paul Puglia, summoning him out of class.
Should he have been allowed to stay in class wearing his Hitler outfit?
Post your comments here Puglia then allegedly asked, "Are you out of your mind, you idiot?" and ordered him to the office with, "Consider yourself my prisoner of war."
Celeb Halloween costume photos
More photos here Petryk said he understood the concerns of administrators that faculty members had lost relatives in the Holocaust. But he maintained the costume was a parody protected under his right to free expression, and refused to take it off.
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(Posted 11/1/06)
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tylersoap
(11/2):
its just a halloween costume. why are people so easily offended ?
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johnnyforeigner
(11/12):
where does freedom of speech end and personal rights begin. people only object when it is not their choice. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. People of Boston and Chicago no doubt happily contributed to the Irish freedom fighters who were bombing their way across mainland UK. Yet when bombing comes to their own soil-different story.
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Anonymous
(11/12):
zomg lol stealing ur story kk thnx
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Bones
(11/2):
the school was right to remove him. Offensive material might be protected under an amendment, but it dosn't mean that it is accepatable in all situations.
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Jimbo
(11/2):
The "right" to free expression includes responsibilities. As a 16 year old Jewish student, he certainly should have been aware of the enourmous amount of pain associated with that image.
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iamcountolaf
(11/4):
he has the first amendment to back him up.
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Jimbo
(11/5):
No he doesn't, he's a minor who is subject to the dress codes of the school. If the dean found the outfit offensive and disruptive, it's his job to remove the student from class.
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