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To: Crawdad
But the case was not just about a pair of Tigger socks, said lawyer Julia Harumi Mass of the ACLU of Northern California, who represented the families. “It’s really about freedom of expression and tolerating individuality, which are core values of our society.”

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If this had been a private school and not a government school compelled by law, there would be no case. Why is that?

Answer: There is a fundamental conflict between the First Amendment and **compulsory** government schools. The two can NOT coexist! It is impossible!

Why?

Answer: To maintain an orderly school, speech, press, free association, and practice of religion **must** be restricted. Also, there is no such thing as a religiously neutral education.

Also,,,**compulsion** means police, court, and foster care action. That is what government power is. So...the government threatens parents with imprisonment, and then herds the children into an environment in which government workers tell the children to shut up, forbid free press, dictate with whom they will associate, forbid religious expression, and finally indoctrinate them in the religion of Secular Humanism!

If the taxpayer balks at this travesty. Armed sheriffs stand ready to auction his home and business. If he resists, they will imprison him. If he seriously resists they will kill him.

Aren’t government schools great! ( Excuse me while I go barf!)

There is a solution: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.

61 posted on 12/16/2007 7:30:07 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: wintertime; Amelia; Virginia Ridgerunner
There is a fundamental conflict between the First Amendment and **compulsory** government schools. The two can NOT coexist! It is impossible!

The real travesty here is that these same said govt schools are teaching the children that obedience to one's betters is more important than an individual's God-given rights. When these people start running the country, then all American freedoms will be a dead letter, Constitution notwithstanding.

I will never side with an institution that is so blatantly unamerican.
78 posted on 12/16/2007 3:56:08 PM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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