Jon Stewart, showing the banner Joseph Frederick held up on that snowy day at the Olympic torch relay, along with video of the large Olympic torch…
“If Jesus had a bong, that is totally the lighter that He’d use.”
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Jon Stewart, showing the banner Joseph Frederick held up on that snowy day at the Olympic torch relay, along with video of the large Olympic torch… “If Jesus had a bong, that is totally the lighter that He’d use.” Imagine having an employee who was completely incompetent. Everything this person did on the job was a disaster. He failed to do the proper research or listen to his co-workers who had. He pushed through his own agenda despite all market research clearly saying it wouldn’t work. And he put a huge chunk of the […] Congratulations, Joseph Frederick! At least two interpretations of the words on the banner demonstrate that the sign advocated the use of illegal drugs. First, the phrase could beinterpreted as an imperative: ‹[Take] bong hits . . .ŠÖa message equivalent, as Morse explained in her declaration, to ‹smoke marijuanaŠ or ‹use an illegal drug.Š Alternatively, the phrase could be viewed as celebrating drug useÖ‹bong hits [are a good thing],Š or ‹[we take] bong hitsŠÖand we discern no meaningful distinction between celebrating illegal drug use in the midst of fellow students and outright advocacy or promotion. There’s almost a… petulance on the part of the Justices. Just like a school principal who feels “out of it,” there’s a fear of kids pulling one over on them. “Oh, no, you can’t fool me. I know what it means!” And so they, too, walk right into the trap set for them by Fredericks, and give the phrase a whole lot more power than it had. When First Amendment rights are at stake, a rule that ‹sweep[s] in a great variety of conduct under a general and indefinite characterizationŠ may not leave ‹too wide a discretion in its application.Š Therefore, just as we insisted in Tinker that the school establish some likely connection between thearmbands and their feared consequences, so too JDHS must show that Frederick‰s supposed advocacy stands a meaningful chance of making otherwise-abstemious students try marijuana. The majority screwed up. I join the opinion of the Court on the understanding that… it provides no support for any restriction of speech that can plausibly be interpreted as commenting on any political or social issue, including speech on issues such as ‘the wisdom of the war on drugs or of legalizing marijuana for medicinal use.’ – Justice Samuel Alito Surely our national experience with alcohol should make us wary of dampening speech suggesting–however inarticulately–that it would be better to tax and regulate marijuana than to persevere in a futile effort to ban its use entirely. – Justice John Paul Stevens Nice going, Joseph! |
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