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Originally Posted by somerfrost
From reading the article, the kid was suspended...so he wasn't just told to take the banner down, he was kicked out of school...that's more than telling a noisy kid to be quiet!
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the way I read it, he was told to take the banner down and didn't. then
he was suspended.
whatever his message is, in fact he admits he doesn't have one, I wonder how many other avenues he has used in order to express himself and his ideas?, has he passed out leaflets, gone door to door, taken out ads in the paper, written letters to the editor, stood on the corner preaching his ideas, created a website or blog, written a book, gone on local TV, etc. It would seem that all of those are freely available to him and others, and could be used to exercise his free speech. However just because a principle thought a single banner was perhaps not appropriate for a particular school sponsored event we need to be concerned about living in a totalitarian state?
I think people sometimes go way out of there way to be offended or in claiming to be disenfranchised.