"Freedom of Speech" Bitches! Do you speak it?
Incredible. They literally banned free political speech, based on the message.
I wonder if the school will be stupid enough to now go the route of saying her presence is threatening and suspend her pending one of those nonjudicial hearings where the student is not allowed to have an attorney or confront their accusers? Those types of proceedings also need to be confronted in court and stopped.
It’s the Bill of Rights, doncha know. It’s bigoted.
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)... a worthwhile organization, IMHO.
If they were carrying signs against gun rights, they’d be patted on the back. Sad times in Texas these days.
A few comments from an old lawyer:
First Amendment protections are there to protect the “utterers” of speech we find offensive, not just the speech itself. Words do not have rights. People do.
There are certain restrictions on speech, (FIACT, Fraud, Violent overthrow of USG, etc) but none apply here.
The people’s rights were clearly violated here. They were harassed by police in an illegal police action, they were embarrassed in public, a reasonable person watching this could reasonably assume they were doing something illegal and therefore had to stop, etc.
The officers and those directing them to take the illegal action are all liable.
http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?pid=14097 It’s probably a “$20,000 to make it go away” case.
Hmm. Was she standing in the pre-approved “free-speech zone?”