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To: Know your rights; AntiGuv

The same place the Supreme Court ruled that free speech doesn't protect a person's right to insult another, or shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre, or in general use freedom of speech to act belligenrently.

I'm not saying the kid should be prosecuted. I'm saying that the principal was right to suspend him.


81 posted on 03/12/2006 9:10:06 AM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

"Supreme Court ruled that free speech doesn't protect a person's right to insult another"

When was that? Comedians are going to have a tough time.
Oh! and I guess those publishers of the Mo... cartoons, too.


82 posted on 03/12/2006 9:16:27 AM PST by PaxMacian (Gen 1:29)
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"the principal was right to suspend him"

The principal overstepped her authority by
violating the civil rights of a citizen and
then compounding that violation with further
punishment potentially damaging to the citizen's
future prospects for which she had no grounds.
This kind of fascism by state authority should
be met with the greatest possible opposition by
all who reckognize the workings of tyranny.


83 posted on 03/12/2006 9:23:53 AM PST by PaxMacian (Gen 1:29)
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To: Zack Nguyen
The same place the Supreme Court ruled that free speech doesn't protect a person's right to insult another, [...] or in general use freedom of speech to act belligenrently.

When did the Supreme Court rule either of those things? I think you've at best ridiculously overstated the breadth of existing exceptions.

88 posted on 03/13/2006 3:37:26 PM PST by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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