{"id":22064,"date":"2014-02-28T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22064"},"modified":"2014-02-28T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T20:43:13","slug":"hecklers-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22064","title":{"rendered":"Heckler’s Veto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story about the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a> decision to uphold a California<\/a> high school\u2019s ban on American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Officials at Live Oak High School<\/a> banned American flags<\/a> on May 5, 2010 because the year before there had been altercations between white students and Mexican students. There were American flags and chants of \u201cUSA<\/a>.\u201d According to reports, there were also Mexican flags and kids running around saying, \u201cFuck them white boys. Let\u2019s f**k them up.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Cinco de Mayo in 2010, students who showed up with American flags on their shirts were asked to turn the shirts inside out.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

As UCLA law<\/a> professor and Washington Post law blogger Eugene Volokh notes<\/a>, the First Amendment<\/a> typically does not allow government entities to censor speech this way. However, order and tranquility are paramount in a school setting.\u00a0The Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision arguably accords with previous case law. At the same \u00a0time, it amounts to a \u201checkler\u2019s veto\u201d allowing violent people to co-opt the government into using its own compulsion to enact their desires.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a few problems with this. Why weren’t the Mexican students disciplined when they acted up? Why didn’t the school tell the Mexican students that the celebration would\u00a0 be cancelled unless they behaved? Were the Mexican students allowed to wear Mexican shirts? If a student is violent or threatening violence, why not punish that student instead of limiting the freedom of other students? Why weren’t violent students suspended? Other than that, the decision makes perfect sense. Sure.<\/p>\n

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