Bong Hits 4 Jesus

[Dozy_production 10+ year member]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court entered into a free-speech dispute Friday involving a high school student suspended over a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner.
The justices accepted an appeal from a school board in Juneau, Alaska, after a federal appeals court allowed a lawsuit by the family of Joseph Frederick to proceed.

Frederick was suspended in 2002 after he unfurled the 14-foot-long banner -- a reference to marijuana use -- just outside school grounds as the Olympic torch relay moved through the Alaskan capital headed for the Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.

"Bong," as noted in the appeal filed with the justices, "is a slang term for drug paraphernalia."

Even though Frederick was standing on a public sidewalk, school officials argue that he and other students were participating in a school-sponsored event. They had been let out of classes and were accompanied by their teachers.

Principal Deborah Morse ordered the 18-year-old senior to take down the sign, but he refused. That led to a 10-day suspension for violating a school policy by promoting illegal drug use.

He filed suit, saying his First Amendment rights were infringed upon. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, agreed, concluding the school could not show Frederick had disrupted the school's educational mission by showing a banner off campus.

A three-judge panel of the appeals court relied on the Supreme Court's famous 1969 "Tinker" case, in which two Iowa high students were allowed to continue wearing anti-Vietnam War armbands.

But the justices in other appeals involving free speech have ruled against students' ability to give sexually suggestive speech, and in favor of a school's right to restrict what is published in student newspapers.

Attorney Kenneth Starr, the former Whitewater prosecutor who investigated President Clinton's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, is representing the school board.

Starr, who is now dean of the law school at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, urged the high court in his appeal brief to clear up the "doctrinal fog infecting student speech jurisprudence."

According to an Associated Press report, Starr is handling the case free of charge.

The case will test school's ability to regulate speech on illegal drugs, particularly when it is done off school grounds.

The appeal will likely be argued in late February, with a ruling expected by late June.

The case is Morse and the Juneau School Board et al. v. Frederick (06-278).

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Interesting. I had a lot of arguments with my teachers and the administrators back when i was in high school concerning the boundaries of free speech in school.

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[Pyro_By_Nature 5,000+ posts]

So ****ing sad............

There's too many loopholes that the schools and such use in the first amendment.Such as "it promotes "illegal" behavior, so your first amendment rights are waived biatch"

 

[4runnercrazy 10+ year member]

wow just say what ever the F*ck u want, just keep it out of school, the school did the right thing..hes promoting drugs, which is what the school wants to crack down on

 

[Pyro_By_Nature 5,000+ posts]

wow just say what ever the F*ck u want, just keep it out of school, the school did the right thing..hes promoting drugs, which is what the school wants to crack down on

So, going by that.ALL of your rights as a U.S. citizen are waived because you set foot on school grounds?

 

[4runnercrazy 10+ year member]

dude did i say n e thing like that, HES PROMOTING DRUGS!

i never said all, just the stuff that is way too far like what he said

i F*cking hate potheads and i always have, they are stupid smell bad and always do stupid shit.............its so annoying

 

[Rc 415 10+ year member]

this is an old repost,

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

drugs are for losers

especially if you unfurl a 14' banner letting everyone know how much of one you are

 

[4runnercrazy 10+ year member]

yea i just read the whole thing, the guy who hung it up is a total douche bag...........he just wants to make a case for him self becuz hes probably bored or hates school, he should just drop out now becasue there is no way he will ever make it in life

 

[Dozy_production 10+ year member]

this is an old repost, good job

nice observation d!ck. Its not really a repost since the hearings are starting today, for the supreme court, and thats somewhat relevant for a refreshener. Take a cock ring and suffocate your "good ol' johnny boy" so you may never be able to reproduce.

I think its wrong. So what if he was advocating for drugs? The KKK have demonstrations on killing blacks and catholics and dont get persecuted. And by the way... i smoke all the time and im not pot head. 4runner.... your not better than the people you 'hate'

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

And by the way... i smoke all the time

good job, you will go far in life //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Don't care because I'm no longer a high school student.

Run along, lil' whippersnappers.

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

yea i just read the whole thing, the guy who hung it up is a total douche bag...........he just wants to make a case for him self becuz hes probably bored or hates school, he should just drop out now becasue there is no way he will ever make it in life

you mean like you're making it?

anyone supporting george bush has absolutely no room to talk, calling people stupid and annoying.

 

[mattf 5,000+ posts]

this is an old repost,

No its not.

yea i just read the whole thing, the guy who hung it up is a total douche bag...........he just wants to make a case for him self becuz hes probably bored or hates school, he should just drop out now becasue there is no way he will ever make it in life

He can't drop out of school, he was a senior in 2002... I think its safe to assume that he is done with high school already.

Another detail of the story... he wasn't even on school grounds when he held the poster. Its really none of the school business then.

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

you mean like you're making it?
anyone supporting george bush has absolutely no room to talk, calling people stupid and annoying.

x2

 

[Pyro_By_Nature 5,000+ posts]

drugs are for losers
especially if you unfurl a 14' banner letting everyone know how much of one you are

Ok, that's all you contribute to all these threads. "OMG DRUGS ARE 4 LUZERZ". Do you have a legitimate argument behind that? Along with facts, or are you just talking out of your ***? Putting down someone who may or may not use drugs, over the internet.Is your life that bad outside of the internet?That you have to bash over half of the world to make yourself feel like a better person?

You put drugs as such a general range, so esstenially you're calling everyone a loser? Here's some info.Your mom probably had pain killers dripped into her IV when she gave birth to you.Tons of old people need "drugs" just to function.Back pain, knee pain, neck pain, you name it. If you were ever sick, you've taken "drugs".So, that'd make you a loser, now wouldn't it?