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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear First Amendment Case Challenging School Ban on American Flag Shirts: Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. Your right to free expression, however, ends with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. H/T Not so Silent.

This post was last modified on March 31, 2015

Kip Hooker:

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  • Here's what you do. on May 5th you have all the patriotic/tax-payer kids wear flag t-shirts under their regular shirts. At a flash mob time, they all expose the flag t-shirts. If they get called on it, they walk out in protest. The left is always doing that- getting kids to do a 'walk out'. Like getting high schoolers to skip school is some sign of moral superiority. Make it work against them this time. I bet a lot of CDM people 'walk out' in 'protest' too.

    Either that or take over the principal and superintendents office for a reading of the Constitution.

    I never understood the 'walk-out'. When HS and college kids show up for Saturday study hall to protest something, then you'll have my attention.

  • The slippery slope is locked in. I'm stunned this did not get picked up by SCOTUS. It is for this type of case that the Supreme Court was created under Article III.

  • Where was that argument when they were integrating schools? Isn't this just another integration?

    • Simple, there are already an overabundance of drug cartel members in Mexico, so the ones that aren't violent enough to make it there, come here.

  • So Like I said, the rights of the invading horde of illegal aliens now trumps our rights under the first amendment. The beginning of the end of free speech and expression? That little crack just got wider and how long will bit be before you have speech control over every aspect of your life and become a criminal just by stating the truth?

    (Star wars) "The last remnants of the old republic have been swept away, The regional governors are now in control and fear (of this death star, read government) will keep the locals in line".

  • Soooo, all the right wing has to do is threaten violence and it can silence all the left wing social engineering. They are going to regret the day that illegal violence was a reason to limit legal activity.

    Of course, if it were reversed, Holder would have the FBI with DHS teams in tow to put the smack down on any even protesting.

    They wouldn't stand for this if the KKK or the mafia were the ones that were threatening the peace- the fact that you can't wear an American flag in an American school is simply mind blowing. Just out of clarity- why can't' you wear an American flag on Cinco de Mayo. Is there something inherently anti-american about the holiday.

    Or course, the news will all be about Indiana- which you know actually had the largest Klan membership...

    Shop another district.

  • This is terrible news. This empowers those who oppose expression of all things traditional, conservative, and patriotic.