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To: Protagoras

In this case it is a government entity that is providing censorship. IMO, this is exactly what free speech rights are all about.

FWIW, my high school yearbook has photos of the trap and skeet team in action.


76 posted on 11/17/2004 10:33:37 AM PST by Eagle Eye (Al Anbar -- not just another bad neighborhood, it's a state of mind)
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To: Eagle Eye
In this case it is a government entity that is providing censorship.

Censorship can be a good thing in some cases. For instance I censored the content my children were allowed to see when they were growing up. Jim Robinson censors this site.

The idea that students have the right to determine content in a high school yearbook is goofy. They don't make the school rules either.

IMO, this is exactly what free speech rights are all about.

I'm glad you called it an opinion. I disagree. You have no free speech rights in my newspaper, on my website, on my TV station, on my radio station.

You have the right to free speech, not the power to force others to publish it, or even have others listen to it.

FWIW, my high school yearbook has photos of the trap and skeet team in action.

Good for you. I'm glad that the people in charge there allowed you to have the types of photos you wanted in the year book. And it makes sense since the activity shown was a high school activity. That's why they showed it I'm guessing.

I'm also guessing you would feel differently and be screaming bloody murder if some student was able to use the courts to allow him to french kiss another boy in a photo for the "gay" club or some other such nonsense in your year book.

77 posted on 11/17/2004 10:50:41 AM PST by Protagoras (No wonder we have problems, big tents have lots of clowns inside)
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To: Eagle Eye
It's amazing to me (confounding might be a better description) that "conservatives" actually embrace the very tactics they deplore in the liberals they constantly attack.

Real conservatives don't advocate this kind of nonsensical law suits when it suits their agenda but go ballistic when the other side does it.

Either the people who are hired to run the schools run them or the kids do. The ultimate power to decide rests with the parents and voters. Parents can take their children out of these liberal hell holes like responsible parents do and voters can elect a school board that runs the schools as they want them to.

78 posted on 11/17/2004 10:56:59 AM PST by Protagoras (No wonder we have problems, big tents have lots of clowns inside)
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