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
Flags should not be articles of clothing
Only in California
This country goes downhill daily!!
I thought federal court was supposed uphold the Constitution if not that court is moot
The 2nd trumps the 1st
need to replace the court .stand up for our country while we still have one.
Keep em looking at the trees and they’ll never see the forest
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has become the Court of Appeasement. Let see if you ban the wearing or display of flags from other countries. I know this will not happen as you lack two things necessary. TESTICLES!
THIS IS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,OUR FLAG.LET THEM BE OFFENDED ,WHO CARES.
No longer SEPARATE BUT EQUAL, we are integrated and UNEQUAL.