In California, students are apparently being taught that they must eliminate or hide signs of their patriotism in fear of reprisals in their own schools!
On Thursday the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a northern California school did not violate the First Amendment rights of students when it insisted they remove clothing displaying the U.S. flag during the Mexican Cinco de Mayo holiday. Students were asked to turn t-shirts inside out or remove garments that bore the American flag due to fears of ‘racial violence’.
“School officials anticipated violence or substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities, and their response was tailored to the circumstances,” Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote in the opinion for the three-judge Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel. “As a consequence, we conclude that school officials did not violate the students’ rights to freedom of expression, due process, or equal protection.”…
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh suggested that the court may have correctly applied the law, but unfortunately sanctioned a “heckler’s veto” by ruling against the students.
“The school taught its students a simple lesson: If you dislike speech and want it suppressed, then you can get what you want by threatening violence against the speakers,” Volokh wrote in his blog,the Volokh Conspiracy. “The school will cave in, the speakers will be shut up, and you and your ideology will win.”
Source: Washington Examiner
Photo: Infowars
once again a court making rules up as they go. The judge must be a communist.
RIDICULOUS THEY’RE IN AMERICA NOT MEXICO AND WHY THE HECK CELEBRATE CINCO DE MAYO!!!!!PLAIN CRAZY!!!!
Our government seems to be intent on destroying our country! NO other countries flag should ever take precedence over our flag!
give me a break!!! what is wrong with those people! afraid of upsetting the hispanic students…if so, they can go back to Mexico if that is how they feel about it!!!
C**P
Tell the Mexicans to go home if they don’t like it. This is AMERICA. Vote out that damn judge. Ooo wait he must be a Mexican.
Then have the cops there and if they get violently upset then shoot the bastards.
THI IS BULL C**P
All REAL AEMRICANS need to buy and wear American Flag shirts on a regular basis and then we All need to wear them on Cinco de Mayo. Let the court tell tens of millions of Americans they can’t wear that shirt and see what happens.
you better get those trashy judges out of office