non-smoker 
Posted on 05/27/2005 5:35:18 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Posters that depicted President Bush with a Groucho Marx-style mustache and cigar were ordered torn down at a high school after a student complained.
Theater students, who had created the posters to advertise a satirical play, countered with new posters with a First Amendment message.
Principal Kenny Lee ordered 100 posters removed from the campus of El Camino Real High School in the Woodland Hills area last week on grounds that they promoted smoking and "endorsing one ideology over another."
"That's our take on the student speech and conduct," Lee said.
The school-funded posters advertised the students' play, "The Complete History of America (Abridged)," which satirizes U.S. history.
A senior who supports the president wrote a complaint letter to the administration, teachers and students said.
"We had one student who was very upset," Lee said. "If something is bothering a student on campus, we're going to address it."
The poster ban infuriated some students.
"It taught us that the First Amendment certainly does not guarantee the right of free speech," said Jes Shah, 16, a junior in the school drama program.
The principal asked the drama students to come up with new posters. The new designs all feature a silhouette of Bush and a burning cigar, along with inscriptions such as "Free Expression for All (unless you are in high school)" and "What First Amendment?"
"They're good," Lee said. "I like the follow-ups."
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Try wearing a "Jesus is Lord" T shirt in schools now a days..30 years in prison for that.
It's a shame that these idiots don't know what the first amendment really says.
Freedom of Speech goes hand-in-hand with Freedom to be Tactless and Disrespectful.
I just finished reading about the president of the New York State United Teachers Union who lied about David Horowitz' Academic Bill of Rights campaign to end the abuse of the classroom by leftwing ideologues who use their platforms to further the cause of ignorance and foolishness, the kind that was displayed at this highschool both by the "adults" and the kids.
Probably one of only a handful of correct things that these students learned in the 4 years at this school.
You are the run-on sentence of the year winner. What would Mrs. Whatsherface from grammar school say?
It is no insult to be likened to Groucho
non-smoker
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Nowhere in the article do I see anything about your rights to speech being abridged, by Congress or anyone else. You were not imprisoned, nor even punished for your speech.
I have no beef with your poster. But your right to speech does not include a right to be heard. And to call it a first amendment issue is a gross exaggeration, and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the Constitution.
and i look up to adults why?
I don't know, apparently it's not spelling.
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