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2004 Jefferson Muzzle Awards
un1xl0ser writes "The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has released the muzzle awards for people who forgot that "free speech can not be limited without being lost". Check out the 2004 "winners". Famous winners include The U.S. Department of Defense and CBS."
A musket is a historical weapon that has no relevence to today. What about all of the school mascots with Roman spears or Tomahawks?
Here is what I am trying to say, the school has a policy about glorifying violence. Intimidating clothing is part of it.
No one is going to put on a tricorn hat and go on a school rampage with a muzzle loader. So your argument is baloney.
However, people wearing shirts with the silhouette of a modern firearm might just be considered a intimidating. Our children go to school to learn, not be intimidated by classmates that act as though they might shoot people, or glorify violence with their fourteen year old understanding of the world. If you have a problem with that, I suggest you have some children before your reply, it might change your attitude.
Should the school also allow shirts that say "I will strangle your mother if you look at me again"? After all, in this country you can say and express what you want!
See? In any society, even a free one, there is a responsibility, and a line to be drawn. Even in America there is a line. The line is a lot deeper than most countries, but there is still a line. That is to let other people live with freedom from tyranny, oppression, religion, and fear.
Remember those?
that have been limiting the free speech of conservative student organizations in the name of political correctness? I would have liked to have seen at least one of those on the list.
But you feel perfectly justified in pushing yours down mine, eh? You say I have to tolerate a piece of human debris like Howard Stern and if I don't like it, leave.
I'm telling you, no. I am not going to tolerate a piece of human debris like Howard Stern and I'm not going to leave; he is.
And since your views are inferior to mine because you actually condone and support the filth human garbage like Stern promotes, it is my views that we'll be promoting, not yours.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.