First Amendment Victory In Suit Against School Board

Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs ^ | 05/20/03 | ANJRPC

[Copernicus]

I did not see this posted after a search.

Best regards to all

[Copernicus]

Posted to *bang_list and *CCRM

[Ed_in_NJ]

Terrific -- and long overdue.

It's time 'government schools' were put in their place!

[Jay D. Dyson]

Hallelujah! Score one for both the First and Second Amendments!!

-Jay

[inquest]

A score for the 2nd amendment anyway, but it seems to undermine the 1st. People need to think about the consequences of these kinds of rulings. It may work in our favor now, but wait till some leftist with better lawyers gets ahold of this precedent. It'll mean that everything a school says will be scrutinized for some anti-leftist "bias" and they'll scream that they're being denied their "equal protection" and sue to have it corrected (in their favor).

The courts are biased in favor of the Left. Rulings like this, though they may seem like they advance our cause, in reality increase the power of the courts, and with it their ability to engage in all sorts of judicial activism that inevitably promotes leftist causes.

[teeman8r]

now if they could only say a prayer before the second amendment club meets, that will be something...

[fish hawk]

Hey!!where in the hell is the ACLU. Aren't they suppose to be protecting our rights? Isn't that what they do?

[zip]

Ping

[Balding_Eagle]

What do you suggest? Letting the Leftists have their way, just in case any successful action we take might be used against Americans in the future?

No thanks, we've done that for forty years plus, and are darn close to losing the country to the damn Marxists. I'm glad to see them being battled on their own turf for a change, and often losing in the process.

BTW, welcome to FR!

[Balding_Eagle]

My mistake, you've been here a year. Happy Anniversary!

[Paleo Conservative]

The school board is not only opposed to the second amendment, but the first as well. Par for the course for leftists.

[Travis McGee]

Every culture war victory counts!

[Coleus]

Fake gun lands costumed 6th grader five-day suspension
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/869647/posts

MONTCLAIR NJ calls off the war
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/864677/posts

Group (Rutherford Institute) sues on behalf of child in Paper-Gun Incident in Irvington, NJ
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/858840/posts

[Coleus]

http://www.anjrpc.org/Old_Stuff/montclair.htm

Yep, and Montcliar is the home of the Northern NJ Chapter of Cease Fire NJ. Let's FREEP Them, ha ha ha.

http://www.ceasefirenj.org/cfessex.htm

http://www.ceasefirenj.org/march2001.htm#mn1
http://www.ceasefirenj.org/march2001.htm#mn2
http://www.ceasefirenj.org/march2001.htm#mn3
http://www.ceasefirenj.org/march2001.htm#mn4
http://www.ceasefirenj.org/march2001.htm#mn5
http://www.ceasefirenj.org/march2001.htm#mn6
http://www.ceasefirenj.org/march2001.htm#mn7

North Jersey Chapter
PO Box 43387 – Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043
Tel: 973-744-3813 FAX: 973-655-1945
E-mail: Essex@CeaseFireNJ.org

[Coleus]

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[Ed_in_NJ]

bttt

[GirlShortstop]

Hey!!where in the hell is the ACLU.

Good point... While reading the article, I too noticed the absence of the ACLU; enough so that I went back to verify the alphabet soup group "names".  Silly me, silly you!   FReegards.

[Coleus]

now if they could only say a prayer before the second amendment club meets, that will be something...

that sure would be something...might give some liberals in town a stroke!!

[inquest]

The beneficial effects (for us) of this ruling aren't going to be felt much beyond the school district where it took place. The beneficial effects for the leftists are going to be felt nationwide, as they'll have a new tool which statistically will work much better for their purposes than for ours. (It not only "might" be used against us; it will be)

As for what I suggest, I suggest that we not adopt tactics that will play into their hands. Rather, we should take our message directly to our friends and neighbors, and in the newspapers and at our town meetings. We have not been doing that for the last 40 years, as you seem to have implied. Instead, we've just been voting for "decent" politicians on the assumption that they'll protect us from the leftists. That's what's been failing us. The job of a politician is to make deals and compromise, and they've excelled at that. It's time to recognize that voting, by itself, is not enough.

[inquest]

Happy Anniversary!

Thanks, my anniversary was two months ago ;-)

(I agree that this new homepage format can be really difficult to read on some browsers. Especially when they write March as "Mar")