[Coleus]

Appeals court hears 'redneck' T-shirt case

Court rules NJ student can wear 'redneck' T-shirt

Daily Local News - News - 11/14/2004 - Racism or freedom of Speech?

[JamesP81]

Good.

[SuziQ]

Maybe that will be a lesson to schools not to be so dang SENSITIVE about t-shirts. If no one has complained about the shirt, leave it alone! And If they DO complain, go very slowly on the matter; you might just have a ninny-nanny on your hands.

[JamesP81]

Nothing warms my black little heart like a bunch of school board control-freak fascists getting a boot in their posterior.

[American Quilter]

I love Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be a Redneck" series. The first time I heard him was in the car on the way to work, and I laughed so hard I nearly went off the road. My favorite is "If you go to a family reunion to meet women, you might be a redneck."

[SouthTexas]

Git-R-done!

[digger48]

Why did the Family have to foot the bill. Where was the Federally subsidized ACLU??? to fight this battle?

[RightField]

This should be a fun thread for a Friday ...

[AntiGovernment]

This is insane. Are they really going to suspend a student over a T-Shirt about rednecks?

[wintertime]

The $5 T-shirt stirred a national debate over free speech rights, as First Amendment experts and Foxworthy himself weighed in on the topic

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First Amendment Rights and government schools are fundamentally conflicted. Why?

1) The government school ( and all schools ) MUST restrict free speech, free press, free assembly, and free expression of religion. If they don't, the school becomes chaotic. Therefore, government has a choice. It can run chaotic and unsafe schools or it can trample First Amendment Rights.

2) The education of children is fundamentally the transfer of the collected wisdom of the society. That wisdom has PROFOUND political, cultural, and moral and ethical ( religious) consequences and content. Those consequences and content are NEVER neutral. So...government has a choice. It can open buildings and teach nothing at all, or it can support and ESTABLISH the politics, culture, and religion of some while actively,deliberately and maliciously destroy those of others.

3)Finally, government schools are a price-fixed monopoly. They are giving a product away for free. This is a hostile business climate for the creation of private alternatives. The cost of government schools is MORE than $11,000 per government schooled K-12 child per year. This stresses many families with taxes driving both mother and father into the work force. Then when private schools are scarce, and neither parent can homeschool, the government then threatens the children and parents with armed police, court, and foster care if they refuse to send their child to the NON-NEUTRAL government indoctrination camp. This is a GROSS violation of freedom of assembly. Once in the government school the children are told to shut, not to publish, not to freely assemble and forbidden to express their religion FOR NEARLY ALL of their time in the government clutches.

Government schools are an abomination and unconstitutional. We must begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education IMMEDIATELY!

The following is an excellent article explain why government schools are unconstitutional on a state or federal level:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter9.htm

[Congressman Billybob]

This case demonstrates why a limitation of federal courts' jurisdiction is needed today, if not before. Were the federal courts, with their $150,000 judges and support staff and buildings really created for the purpose of deciding whether a certain student should or should not wear a certain T-shirt to school.

Gimme a d*mned break. Any case that does not involve the interests of at least 1,000 students, or 10% of the students in a given school or school system, should be EXCLUDED from federal jurisdiction. This is just a matter of common sense. And I would like to propose exactly such a bill in the Congress of the US.

P.S. Interested in a Freeper in Congress? Keep in touch with me.

Congressman Billybob

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[pray4liberty]

If you're ever accused of 'lying through your tooth' you might be a redneck!