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
Freedom of speech can’t only apply to recent additions to our country over its’ natural born american citizens. I may night fly the eagle at all times but here is the bird for these federal court officials pretending God like powers. Read the constitution……
another commie judge this is America not any other country should have right of say about our flag
Bunch of C**p.
WTF? BULL $#%&!@*! THIS BULL $#%&!@* IS GETTING $#%&!@*ING WAY OUT OF HAND! ONLY BECAUSE OF POLITICS!!!!! AND VOTES!
Upsetting someone because I am an American and proud of it is the last thing on my I don’t give a damn list…
Let’s see…we can’t have Nativity scenes during Christmas because we might offend the Muslims, we can’t wear US t-shirts, we might offend the Hispanics….what ever happened to ITS A FREE COUNTRY!!!!!!!?
Where is their freedom of speech, applies to clothes also and if the people who moved here, dont like, go back to where you came from and protest there
Remind them that this is the USA and not Mexico.
IF THEY DON’T LIKE IT, TELL THEM TO PACK UP THEIR $#%&!@* AND LEAVE OUR COUNTRY, PLAIN AND VERY SIMPLE. REGARDS, DAN
keep suing until we get an american judge and not a communist one!