At 11:03 PM 3/4/03 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: >From the article, New York Civil Liberties Union President Stephen >Gottlieb says, "We believe, most of us, in the Bill of Rights, and we >believe that protects the freedom to speak." How is Constitutionally- >protected freedom of speech imperiled when an agent of a private >corporation asks someone to leave because his speech is offensive?
Steve is right. Free speech is tested by wearing "Fuck the Army" t-shirts [1] in public places, not "Peace" while in some private store. [1] Literally, it was so tested; the legal readers will know what I'm talking about. Enforcement of the Court's ban on coercive monotheist nationalist allegiances will be another test case, of whether the constitution + courts can keep demobcracy and the American taliban at bay. Linking both issues, I imagine there will be some *CLU [2] cases about messages in public schools with garments as the medium. [2] with apologies to Liskov
