Ninth Circuit: Not safe to display American flag in American high school (legal, conspiracy)
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Basically if you wear an American flag to school and another group attacks you, the school can tell you to remove the flag. Gotta love the liberal 9th circuit.
Quote:
Thursday’s Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School Dist. (9th Cir. Feb. 27, 2014) upholds a California high school’s decision to forbid students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. (See here and here for more on this case.)
The court points out that the rights of students in public high schools are limited — under the Supreme Court’s decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Comm. School Dist. (1969), student speech could be restricted if “school authorities [can reasonably] forecast substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities” stemming from the speech. And on the facts of this case, the court concludes, there was reason to think that the wearing of the T-shirts would lead to disruption. There had been threats of racial violence aimed at students who wore such shirts the year before:
What we can't do, is punish the people who are threatening the violence. Oh, no, we can't do that. Better to make everybody else who hasn't done anything wrong, change their ways and defer to the lawbreakers.
Just a bunch of kids wearing American flag tee shirts for the express purpose of race baiting and picking a fight. Something I'm sure they learned from their fathers.
Just a bunch of kids wearing American flag tee shirts for the express purpose of race baiting and picking a fight. Something I'm sure they learned from their fathers.
Forever backing down. Something I'm sure they learned from their mothers.
I agree with the sentiments of the writer of the linked article. It may be in line with a US Supreme Court ruling, but it is poor policy to 'reward' thugs who threaten students wearing or displaying the US flag.
Situations like this sadden me. On the one hand, if a student goes to the school on May 5th and displays or wears the USA flag, and gets beaten up, the parents of said student will sue the school saying the school officials knew, or should have known, that said student wearing said flag could result in violence to said student. When the school bans the wearing or displaying the USA flag on May 5th, in order to prevent violence, they are nevertheless damned for giving in to thugs.
I have no answer. I doubt there is one, save to 'hope and pray' that people become reasonable.
Just a bunch of kids wearing American flag tee shirts for the express purpose of race baiting and picking a fight. Something I'm sure they learned from their fathers.
So... Americans wearing an American flag is race baiting?
I agree with the sentiments of the writer of the linked article. It may be in line with a US Supreme Court ruling, but it is poor policy to 'reward' thugs who threaten students wearing or displaying the US flag.
Situations like this sadden me. On the one hand, if a student goes to the school on May 5th and displays or wears the USA flag, and gets beaten up, the parents of said student will sue the school saying the school officials knew, or should have known, that said student wearing said flag could result in violence to said student. When the school bans the wearing or displaying the USA flag on May 5th, in order to prevent violence, they are nevertheless damned for giving in to thugs.
I have no answer. I doubt there is one, save to 'hope and pray' that people become reasonable.
An answer would be to stop celebrating a holiday that was popularized for the sole purpose of selling alcohol.
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