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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-28-10 01:10 PM
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I don’t mind if it rains or freezes, long as I got my Bong Hits 4 Jesus
Edited on Thu Jan-28-10 01:12 PM by kpete
I don’t mind if it rains or freezes, long as I got my Bong Hits 4 Jesus

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So, let’s get this straight. With the Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United, the Activist Judges of Conservative Persuasion want to allow corporations “Free Speech” rights when it comes election time. Corporations are “people” and money is “speech”, or so they would have you believe, and Freedom of Speech is sacred, so let the spending begin!

But when it comes time for an individual, a high school student, to express religious beliefs during a field trip, the Same Activist Judges of Conservative Persuasion want to outlaw the students rights to Freedom of Speech!

Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007) was a school speech case in which the United States Supreme Court held that theFirst Amendment does not prevent educators from suppressing student speech, at a school-supervised event, that is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use…Majority opinion. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, concluded that the school officials did not violate the First Amendment. To do so, he made three legal determinations: first, that “school speech” doctrine should apply because Frederick’s speech occurred “at a school event”; second, that the speech was “reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use”; and third, that a principal may legally restrict that speech—based on the three existing First Amendment school speech precedents, other Constitutional jurisprudence relating to schools, and a school’s “important—indeed, perhaps compelling interest” in deterring drug use by students.


Apparently, all speech is equal except some speech is more equal than others.
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/2010/01/28/i-dont-mind-if-it-rains-or-freezes-long-as-i-got-my-bong-hits-4-jesus/
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