So ROTC recruiting uniformed american murders on high school campuses is not disruptive, but a t-shirt is. How about those adverts reminding male fodder to register for the draft? Fly that flag upside down.
At 10:06 PM 11/2/01 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: >CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A judge ruled Thursday that a 15-year-old sophomore >cannot form an anarchy club or wear T-shirts opposing the U.S. bombing of >Afghanistan because it would disrupt school. Katie Sierra was suspended >from Sissonville High School for three days for promoting the club. She >was also told she could not wear T-shirts with messages such as: "When I >saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered >sense of national security. God Bless America." > >In a complaint filed with her mother, Sierra argued her right to free >speech was being denied. > >Circuit Court Judge James Stucky agreed that free speech is "sacred" but >he found that such rights are "tempered by the limitations that they ... >not disrupt the educational process." > >[Congress shall make NO LAW abridging the freedom of NON-DISRUPTIVE > speech (Guffaw)] > >Sierra said she'll pursue the dispute. "I don't want war. I'm not for >Afghanistan," Sierra said. "I think that what we're doing to them is just >as bad as what they did to us, and I think it needs to be stopped." > >James Withrow, lawyer for the Kanawha County Board of Education, argued >that an anarchy club was inappropriate because students "do not feel that >their school is a safe place anymore." "Anarchy is the antithesis of what >we believe should be in schools," Withrow said. > >Sierra's attorney, Roger Forman, said she is "being punished for >expressing her opinion." ------ All that fresh air, rations getting low... time to sporulate..
