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Home: Topics: Government Schools: Columbine Massacre
After Columbine, principals became outlaws |
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(6/2/99) The outlaw in your school isn't wearing a trenchcoat, he's wearing a tie. Even before the Columbine shooting, principals were banning backpacks, lockers, mobile phones, and baggy pants. Now, they're ignoring the proven constitutional rights of students by banning all forms of free expression.
Last week, we wrote about a student in Colorado who was denied the right to memorialize the Columbine victims by wearing a blue and white ribbon on her graduation gown. With the help of the ACLU, she sued her school but lost the case. At the time, the verdict was surprising considering the ribbons were similar to black armbands used by student Vietnam protestors in 1969. The Supreme Court ruled that
armbands are a form of protected speech.
Despite this historic ruling, a few weeks ago a principal in Texas suspended a group of students who were wearing black armbands to memorialize the Columbine victims. Basically, principals and their sympathetic, corrupt, and loyal judges have stopped obeying Supreme Court decisions or any other court decisions.
Principals know they are breaking the law but they don't think that you'll stop them. They think you'll just endure the abuse because it will eventually end at graduation and because any protest could affect your school record.
Well, if you let the government treat you like a peasant, you'll save your school record but you'll destroy your self-confidence and self-worth.
If you let principals take away even one of your Constitutional rights, then they will take away all of your rights. Never think that things won't get worse. Things can and will get worse. Like the transition from day to dusk to night, you don't fully realize that you are a slave until the darkness of oppression surrounds you.
You only have rights if you defend them everyday. After a losing a court case against her school, a Libertarian Rockstar said, "I decided not to protest because I just want to be a normal person." In America, normal people should be actively protesting unjust laws.
So be normal and be an American, fight back by protesting unjust school regulations and, if necessary, suing your school for violating your Constitutional rights.
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