i'm totally with you on this one. if they'd been on school property, that would be different, but they weren't, and that makes this utterly utterly bogus.
"They" claim that the statement promotes illegal behavior, but what if the bong was full of tobacco or a "bong hit" was some computer gaming thing? Did the prosecution really prove that a "bong hit" as used in that sign was an illegal activity?
But then, maybe I should look into it some more...
Well, it's ironic this time, given that, as it says in the final paragraph in the above link:
Conservative groups that often are allied with the administration are backing Frederick out of concern that a ruling for Morse would let schools clamp down on religious expression, including speech that might oppose homosexuality or abortion.
As for filibuster, remember that this was the old roll-over-and-play-dead Democrats, not the current we'll-bark-twice-if-we-don't-like-it-then-lie-down Democrats. I do wish that they'd forced the current Republican Majority to use the "nuclear option"; that would have set a fantastic precedent.
That's my only consolation amidst all the abuses of the post-9/11 government; all the shit the GOP pulled is going to come back to haunt them one day.
It's for exactly the reason that you blockquoted there that
In their concurrence, Justices Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy specified that the court's opinion provides no support for any restriction on speech that goes to political or social issues.
Cf., eating your pot brownies and having them, too.
and you get more than merely the TreeHuggerInChief, but a Radicall Extremist Bent upon the destruction of our White Christian America with his Black Robed Judicial Tyrants Engaged In Radical Judicial Activism....
Ah the fun of this case....
It will go down as the
'oh, which part of the process about the president will appoint the judiciary did you folks miss back in 2000 and 2004???'
or were you too bizzy doing the Bong_hitz_4_jesus that you failed to get on the big bus!!!!
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Date: 2007-06-26 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-06-26 03:50 am (UTC)But then, maybe I should look into it some more...
Still....idiots.
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Date: 2007-06-26 04:30 am (UTC)Filibuster would have been better.
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Date: 2007-06-26 04:49 am (UTC)That's my only consolation amidst all the abuses of the post-9/11 government; all the shit the GOP pulled is going to come back to haunt them one day.
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Date: 2007-06-26 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-26 05:24 am (UTC)Elect An Environemental Extremists,
Date: 2007-06-26 05:12 pm (UTC)and you get more than merely the TreeHuggerInChief, but a Radicall Extremist Bent upon the destruction of our White Christian America with his Black Robed Judicial Tyrants Engaged In Radical Judicial Activism....
Ah the fun of this case....
It will go down as the or were you too bizzy doing the Bong_hitz_4_jesus that you failed to get on the big bus!!!!