Don’t mess with Texas.
Obviously the school powers that be understand neither the Constitution nor its First Amendment.
Went to my brothers college grad and remember the speaker glorifying liberalism...guess that’s the only speech ok in academia. A student can’t mention how God and the Constitution influenced life.
Sad!
What do you expect in Texas?
Hmmm. This doesn’t appear all that straight forward. The school officials may be trying to enforce some level of decorum considering the audience may have family members including younger children as well as parents. Can you imagine someone launching into a tirade of obscenities just for the hell of it? Would the speech this young man gave have been approved if he had submitted it? Was the speech censored because of the topic or because he did not follow rules that may actually be reasonable considering the venue?
I wouldn’t be so hasty to condemn the school officials since there are too many unknowns and too much speculation about motives.
So why should the speeches of the smartest people in their high school classes need to be reviewed and pro-approved? Don’t want the other students to get any independent thoughts in their heads, I suppose.
Texas? THIS HAPPENED IN TEXAS? What happened to whiskey for my men and beer for my horses? Did those Tennesseans die for Texas at the Alamo for nothing? Are you going to let these mealy-mouthed liberals destroy your values without a fight? Texas was my hope, my “city on the hill”. If Texas doesn’t stand up our whole country is in the crapper.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
--Voltaire
Or what you are not allowed to talk about.
Killing this speech of freedom is yet another example of what seeps and flows down hill from those who ran a successful coup against our Republic. How do you like it so far?
I guess we didn't like freedom as much as our ancestors did and traded it for new ownership and some free stuff. I wonder if the rest of us will miss it.
We haven't been formally introduced. What is the name of the GuvCo oligarchy Beast that now owns US and pulls our fashionably new chains?
The school’s microphone, the school’s forum, the school’s approval. If the kid didn’t like what he agreed to then he should let someone else do the speech.
Did the speech police censor the speech before he gave it? As in, did he give them a copy of his US Constitution speech and they nixed it? Has he published his approved and his unapproved speeches anywhere online?
United Socialist States of America
When the mike goes off, just speak louder.
Make them drag you off/.
Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
#17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
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Communist School District Alert!!!!!!
What is their contact info?
It’s hard even for us, to admit that we are already in a totalitarian state. We were taught as kids that this was the land of the free and that freedoms were guaranteed by the constitution.
I no longer have that illusion.
I agree. In fact, regardless that the student started talking about the Constitution, Fx's title for this article is misleading, imo. This is because this wasn't really an attack on the Constitution as evidenced by the fair warning about deviating from approved speech regardless of material.
i would really like to see a video of the event
You can’t talk about the Constitution. it’s limiting to the government.