A Repost from the old forums.
in today's news: A Virginia Court banned a kid from forming an "Anarchy Club" or wearing t-shirts that remotely decries the US bombings of afghanistan, because, "While the right to free speech is sacred, it must not disrupt the educational process."
apparently, freedom of speech is something that disrupts the educational process, homogeneity of thought is what we need.
The irony is that on the same day, another Virginia Court abolished a law against burning crosses, because cross burning is something that ought to be protected under the first ammendment, someone should have the right to display their bias, bigotry, and hate, but not allowed to display opinions against the government.
i believe the fundamental principle of hte government in this country is the fact that you CAN indeed criticize it. i criticize it many times, but i never take for granted, and i always appreciate the fact that YOU CAN CRITICIZE it. it alone makes this country worth my time to spend in. however, apparently this is no longer the case. you can preach hate but not dissent. we can educate our young to hate blacks and jews but we can't educate our young to question the actions of our government.
regardless of whether or not it's right to have a war in afghanistan, regardless of whether or not it's right to support peace, the fact is we are going to be denied our right to show dissent because it makes other people feel unsafe. I remind you that germans were banned from preaching dissent on the killing of the jews, and russians were banned from preaching dissent against stalin, and afghanis are banned against preaching dissent against the taliban.
When one fights monsters, one should take care not to become one.
-Friedrich Nietzche.
there is a greater darkness than the one we fight. it is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. the war that we fight is not against powers or principalities, it's against chaos, and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
in today's news: A Virginia Court banned a kid from forming an "Anarchy Club" or wearing t-shirts that remotely decries the US bombings of afghanistan, because, "While the right to free speech is sacred, it must not disrupt the educational process."
apparently, freedom of speech is something that disrupts the educational process, homogeneity of thought is what we need.
The irony is that on the same day, another Virginia Court abolished a law against burning crosses, because cross burning is something that ought to be protected under the first ammendment, someone should have the right to display their bias, bigotry, and hate, but not allowed to display opinions against the government.
i believe the fundamental principle of hte government in this country is the fact that you CAN indeed criticize it. i criticize it many times, but i never take for granted, and i always appreciate the fact that YOU CAN CRITICIZE it. it alone makes this country worth my time to spend in. however, apparently this is no longer the case. you can preach hate but not dissent. we can educate our young to hate blacks and jews but we can't educate our young to question the actions of our government.
regardless of whether or not it's right to have a war in afghanistan, regardless of whether or not it's right to support peace, the fact is we are going to be denied our right to show dissent because it makes other people feel unsafe. I remind you that germans were banned from preaching dissent on the killing of the jews, and russians were banned from preaching dissent against stalin, and afghanis are banned against preaching dissent against the taliban.
When one fights monsters, one should take care not to become one.
-Friedrich Nietzche.
there is a greater darkness than the one we fight. it is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. the war that we fight is not against powers or principalities, it's against chaos, and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
