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'Thanks a lot': free speech and high schools.(Morse v. Frederick)

From: National Review  |  Date: 4/16/2007  |  Author: Bork, Robert H.

ONCE more the lunacies of America's rights-crazed culture are on display in our highest court--disguised, of course, as a serious civil-liberties issue. A high school in Juneau, Alaska, released students from class to watch the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay. As the torch runner passed, Joseph Frederick, a senior and apparently an apprentice wisenheimer, attempted, along with some friends, to attract television cameras by unfurling a 14-foot banner with the words "BONG HITS 4 JESUS." ...

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