August 31st, 2006 at 9:09 pm
NewsMax reports that the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals has determined that a student has the constitutional right to wear a T-shirt that showed an image of President Bush “surrounded by cocaine, a razor blade, a straw, and a martini.”
This has to have overturned a mountain of precedent. I’m going to date myself here, but I remember when Spuds MacKenzie and Breckenridge “No Falls, No Balls” T-shirts were verboten in high school. Does this mean no uniforms for any school that receives public funding?
I understand curtailments on free speech if the speech caused physical harm by inciting riots, etc., like shouting fire in a theater. If this T-shirt isn’t a big deal in Vermont, perhaps there just aren’t enough people there who prefer civilized discourse to Bush hatred.
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