Yeah, the first Amendment gives us free speech, but the way laws and our constitutional rights are applied does not depend strictly on what the Constitution says but rather what the Supreme Court has interpreted it to say and mean, including additions it has added such as the balance test on free speech. In interpreting the 1st Amendment the Court has established the idea of "special places," such as schools, where rights don't necessarily apply as they would in regular life. Now it's been a while since I sat in law class, but I do remember that things such as free speech and probable cause for searches work differently when dealing with a school situation. Before you all start quoting the Constitution and claiming this all as an outrage it might be good to check what's happened in the 200 years since that document was written and how that applies to schools and free speech in general.
For goodness sake people Mars is a comparably large distance away from us, which will take about a year to get there! The moon is quite ignored at this time of our lives though it can give us some many advantages ranging from Helium-3 harvesting to easy launching of more shuttles. True Mars might have life, but we shouldn't be all to eager to find it, since it survived this long, it can survive a bit longer until we are advanced enough to deal with ALL the reprecussions..
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Yeah, the first Amendment gives us free speech, but the way laws and our constitutional rights are applied does not depend strictly on what the Constitution says but rather what the Supreme Court has interpreted it to say and mean, including additions it has added such as the balance test on free speech. In interpreting the 1st Amendment the Court has established the idea of "special places," such as schools, where rights don't necessarily apply as they would in regular life. Now it's been a while since I sat in law class, but I do remember that things such as free speech and probable cause for searches work differently when dealing with a school situation. Before you all start quoting the Constitution and claiming this all as an outrage it might be good to check what's happened in the 200 years since that document was written and how that applies to schools and free speech in general.
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Jacob Grabczewski
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For goodness sake people Mars is a comparably large distance away from us, which will take about a year to get there! The moon is quite ignored at this time of our lives though it can give us some many advantages ranging from Helium-3 harvesting to easy launching of more shuttles. True Mars might have life, but we shouldn't be all to eager to find it, since it survived this long, it can survive a bit longer until we are advanced enough to deal with ALL the reprecussions..