Comments on: ‘John Edwards ’08’ T-Shirts-Censoring Students for Political Opinions? http://freemarketblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/%e2%80%98john-edwards-%e2%80%9908%e2%80%99-t-shirts%e2%80%94censoring-students-for-political-opinions/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:08:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Tony Iovino http://freemarketblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/%e2%80%98john-edwards-%e2%80%9908%e2%80%99-t-shirts%e2%80%94censoring-students-for-political-opinions/#comment-40 Tony Iovino Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:35:29 +0000 http://freemarketblog.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-40 Forget the First Amendment issues--how stupid is this? We have young people who are turned off and tuned out to politics, who are too busy playing X-box to worry about the ballot box, and "educators" are trying to stifle an interested kid? Why? It simply makes no sense. We should be encouraging participation, thought, the free exchange of ideas-- the District should be less worried about keeping decorum in its hallways and more worried about firing the synapses in the heads of kids whose brains have been worn dull by countless of hours of reality TV and Internet porn. This is particularly outrageous since the T-shirt wasn't obscene. I mean, it was a shirt supporting Edwards, not Hillary! Forget the First Amendment issues–how stupid is this? We have young people who are turned off and tuned out to politics, who are too busy playing X-box to worry about the ballot box, and “educators” are trying to stifle an interested kid?

Why?

It simply makes no sense. We should be encouraging participation, thought, the free exchange of ideas– the District should be less worried about keeping decorum in its hallways and more worried about firing the synapses in the heads of kids whose brains have been worn dull by countless of hours of reality TV and Internet porn.

This is particularly outrageous since the T-shirt wasn’t obscene.

I mean, it was a shirt supporting Edwards, not Hillary!

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