Noah
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ORIGINAL: starshineowned Greetings..~smiles~ A lot of different topics popping up regarding rights and freedoms. Did we ever have them? Are we loosing them, and know it? Are we loosing them, and dont see it? Are we being sheeples out here allowing stupid laws to pass because to some what they are passed for is good, right, and just for all? http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2822656&page=1 While I am not a fan of this particular word, and well alot of words actually. I never had a thought or inkling in my pea brain of thinking to restrict people from speaking their minds. Where will things like this end? Next it will be bitch or slut or crackhead or buttmunch or cracker. It's already spanking your child in the court systems. Enforced mandatory uniformed dress codes at schools. Where are we going with all this? Anyone seen any real promising changes with some of these enforcements or attempts there of? starshine Happy slave of Master Delvin Are you telling us that you are legally mandated to send your child to a school which has mandatory dress codes? What the fuck is going on down there in Texas? I know of no other jurisdiction than yours where this is the case. If a given school deems that as a part of their educational model there will be restrictions on dress, I think this is wonderful. I damn well want my child's school to do a lot of restricting of self-expression in the cause of education. When your kid wants to express himself by running across the desktops screaming obscenities at the other children, I want his freedom of expression restricted. When the teacher want wants quiet in the classroom so that a lesson can be calmly and clearly imparted, I want the freedom of expression of every rugrat in the room restricted, hard and fast. Poor Bubba Jr. can't wear his Spongebob shorts to school? Little Missy can't wear her glittery "Pornstar" belly shirt? Sounds great to me. I attended a school which mandated uniforms--though this was a choice my parents made, not a legal requirement. It was a wonderful thing. It saved my parents a bag full of money in that they only had to buy enough of those skrts and trousers and shirts to fill out a laundry cycle once and each of us several kids were set for the year. The poor kids and the better of kids all had the same togs. A whole big category of social status bullshit was radically de-emphasized with us, allowing more attention to go where it belonged. And since it was like this from first grade on, we were used to it and quite content. Our parents could allot scarce resources to things that mattered rather than trendy clothes. Letting kids dress like pimps and whores and billboards for corporations in schools is a fine thing for a school to regulate away, if you ask me. And I'll be fucked if your preference to send your kids to school that way is going to be shoved down my throat under some flag labelled freedom. The law in the article you cited would presumably fail a test of constitutionality. I hope so, but then given the the conservative judicial activism that has been built into the courst in recent years, maybe not. In any case I find it astounding that you are bitching about some goofy local law when in fact on the federal level the current administration has stripped you of your Habeus Corpus rights. As things stand now--as I understand things--the President of anyone he designated can deem any individual unworthy of the right to a lawyer, the right to be charged with a crime or relaeased, the right to face his accuser. I hope someone with legal expertise will post to correct what I may have gotten wrong there and perhaps explain further. But I believe that the thrust of what I have said is correct. Those absolutely core rights of American citizenship are simply gone now. You, you don't have those rights any more. Access to an attorney, and the presumption of innocence used to be rights. They are now privileges revokeable at will by the President and his assigns without judicial review. And you're barking about some yahoos and the N-word?
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