hypocritexposer
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Illegals threaten violence and instead of clamping down on the lawbreakers, the court decides to restrict free speech.
The US will be feeling the unintended consequences of these types of decisions for quite some time to come...
The US will be feeling the unintended consequences of these types of decisions for quite some time to come...
Court: U.S. flag is unsafe at U.S. school
It’s not safe to display the American flag at an American high school, writes Eugene Volokh in his Washington Post blog. The Ninth Circuit Court upheld a California high school’s decision to forbid students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo because Mexican-American students had threatened violence the year before.
Under the Supreme Court’s Tinker decision, student speech may be restricted if “school authorities [can reasonably] forecast substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities” stemming from the speech. The earlier threats of racial violence justified the flag ban, the court ruled.
This is a classic “heckler’s veto” — thugs threatening to attack the speaker, and government officials suppressing the speech to prevent such violence. “Heckler’s vetoes” are generally not allowed under First Amendment law; the government should generally protect the speaker and threaten to arrest the thugs, not suppress the speaker’s speech. But under Tinker‘s “forecast substantial disruption” test, such a heckler’s veto is indeed allowed.
- See more at: http://www.joannejacobs.com/2014/02/court-u-s-flag-is-unsafe-at-u-s-school/#sthash.Egwe8qJa.dpuf