TritonRider wrote:
> >From: "Kurgan Gringioni" [email protected]
>
> >Dumbass -
> >Like what? Flag burners or white supremecists? They defend 'em all.
>
> One issue that they have very carefully avoided getting into is the
> discrimination and sometimes outright abuse of non-military
homosexuals on
> military installations, and in DOD schools.
> I'm not sure how bad the situation is currently, but we had
experiences with
> the ACLU and several Gay rights organisations not wanting anything to
do with
> the situation even when people had been pretty badly injured.
> Several of our friends had some problems and we ended up in the
middle of it
> trying to help.
> They have also failed in quite a few cases to help kids thrown out
of schools
> for wearing firearms related T-shirts to school when this should
clearly be
> something that they would tackle on 1st amendment grounds, and have
for other
> forms of clothing.
Dumbass -
You're getting things a little mixed up here.
First Amendment rights apply to being able to express one's opinion in
public.
That doesn't necessarily apply to the military, schools, or jobs. For
instance, a grocery clerk can't invoke the First Amendment if they get
fired for telling customers to "**** off". That job isn't a right, it's
a privilege. Same goes for being a member of the military or going to
school.
As for the firearms thing: ****, with Columbine and school shootings
and the like, what the **** do you expect? Schools are allowed to make
rules regarding dress code and with the the not uncommon event of angry
young white males trying to make their mark on society by shooting
their classmates, ****. I'm not even sure it would be smart for the NRA
to take up that cause.
It'd be like a student wearing pro-Bin Laden t-shirts right after 9/11.
It may be free speech, but no one's going to be dumb enough to defend
it. Not even me and I support free speech.
K. Gringioni.