This just in
There have been some pretty amusing legal results in just the last day or so. Check this out.
Courts have allows special interest groups to advertise in the weeks leading up to an election. They site free speech as the primary factor: “…we give the benefit of the doubt to speech, not censorship.” (cnn).
These rights only apply to money backed lobbiests, not to 18 year old students with fully tenured rights when off of student property: “…permitting the censorship of any student speech that mentions drugs, so long as someone could perceive that speech to contain a latent pro-drug message.” (cnn).
We need to control these kids. We cannot control the teachers who marry these kids however: “School officials can’t be responsible for what happens the other hours of the day…” (abc).
Let’s hope a student film maker doesn’t post an election ad on public access that promotes candidates who favor relaxing of the drug laws. It would be pandemonium.