no Bong Hits for Jesus...

SCOTUS came down 5-4 for censorship today in the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case. the background: During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the torch run passed through Juneau, Alaska. A student, Joseph Frederick, held up a sign that got on teevee, saying "Bong Hits 4 Jesus." The school administration disciplined him; he sued. The case went all the way up the line, and Chief Justice Roberts and his gang of thugs thinks this is speech that should be censored.

Justice Stevens points out Roberts' blatant hypocrisy in his dissent, and TalkLeft covers this nicely, no need to repeat here. What's scary is Slappy Thomas' concurring opinion:

In my view, petitioners could prevail for a much simpler reason: As originally understood, the Constitution does not afford students a right to free speech in public schools.

So Thomas thinks students have no free speech rights. I'd love to see a biology teacher who doesn't believe in Creationism test this in the South. When an outraged fundigelical student speaks up, let's see if the teacher can throw Thomas in the principal's face and have the student suspended.

And then I woke up.

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