Comments on: High Court Hears "Bong Hits" Case

Student Suspended For Displaying "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Banner Says His Rights Were Violated

[patsy2007-2009]

Random,

Your right...is not worth paying taxes for schools, I mean your comment sucks and grammar too. "is that why your upset cause you feel you did not learn". Now I know your ignorence.
I agree with you should not pay for the education you did not get...or could've been that same pot that made you forget.

[toolmangler-2009]

"Compulsory education laws require students to attend school or go to jail (juvenile detention). Freedom from compulsion is even more important than freedom to speak"

Posted by random_radar

Everyone that is in favor of letting random_radar support those that do not wish to be compelled to get a 'selfsupporting' education say 'AYE'



AYE,AYE, AYE

[randalds]

LOL! Randal, you crack me up!

FYI: if it weren't for drug testing at work, I'd be taking "bong hits for Jesus" today!
Posted by scott4261 at 04:56 PM : Mar 19, 2007

I would to, but it's not drug testing, it's wife testing. (sigh) She would have no problem with me getting high, but she has a BIG problem with how much is costs!

[agnim]

No wonder the country is in such a mess and

What an infernal waste?

Is anyone as incensed as I am over this silliness?

What bunch of senile idiots at the Supreme Court.
Little wonder the saddle us with a lunatic as leader.

How on gad's green Earth can a case like this CHILDISHNESS AND STUPIDITY make it to court in the first place; and worse, all the way to the US Supreme Court?

Americans are losing thousands of lives and limbs on account of an idiotic leader. (A foolish people will lose lives foolishly.) And the US Supreme Court is acting with such senility and utter stupidity in not ignoring this nonsense in the first place.

Take away the banner; and no suspension was necessary.
This spiteful Principal overreacted; but a few days of suspension of a school CHILD isn't something to take to court.

[radiob-2009]

Zoot Allures have you been Smoking that yellow snow lately? Why is this even at the supreme court or even a headline. It should have been dropped by the school.

[michel294eve]

While I wouldn't condone my own child doing something like this, I certainly don't think it warrants going to the Supreme Court.

As long as this kid wasn't on school property, his rights were violated. Let's face it, this was just a prank, nothing more. If people can burn the American flag under constitutional rights, then this kid should be able to hold up a sign. He wasn't inciting any riots or anything.

I think we are all just a little too uptight about everything in general anymore...

[michellem99-2009]

I would like to see this nation's kids have their say without fear. I can understand that there are dress codes. I think we as a nation is slowly losing our rights. I don't have children and this is how the money is used. Teachers dating children and we pay texes for broken down systems that fail the kids. I think the school systems are not better today. They were better years ago in some areas. I don't like paying taxes for schools that won't do their jobs. I think they are making a big deal out of nothing.

[scott4261]

Posted by RandalDS at 04:42 PM

LOL! Randal, you crack me up!

FYI: if it weren't for drug testing at work, I'd be taking "bong hits for Jesus" today!

[sshard]

Now this is funny. The school freaks out and way over reacts. If the school wanted to make an example of these kids, they should have had write 100 times "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" on the blackboard.

[rochest]

ok folks get a gripe.... there's a war going on we are torturing people the government sent people to secret prisons in foreign lands people are dying every day in Iraq.... and the Supreme Court chooses to hear this case? the message on the sign sounds pretty nonsensical to me and if this student was on public property not school property isn't the principal guilty of assault? the Supreme Court should have just let the lower court ruling stand in not waste its time and our taxpayer money.

[zootallures2]

"These kids are stupid and know there isn't a real threat. If they really want to stand up for something, why don't the say, "Bong Hits for Mohammed"
Posted by JimmyJack122

Good point. The NWO would love it. Like some Muslims would protest to pray at school, and then win. Soon the Christians would try and be denied. They'd think, "WHAT in our own Christian country?". But instead of seeing or taking it out on the NWO, they'd go after the Muslims.

It's so easy to rule idiots. They are so stupid now, you can even explain the whole conspiracy to them and still they'd rather us it for an excuse to commit sadism on the "other" group.

HIGH FIVE!

[randalds]

These kids are stupid and know there isn't a real threat. If they really want to stand up for something, why don't the say, "Bong Hits for Mohammed"
Posted by JimmyJack122 at 04:15 PM : Mar 19, 2007

Because Muslims are not allowed to smoke or drink. Now the J-man on the other hand was known to be a big fan of the wine and I have no doubt would have taken a big big big hit on the bong if one had been passed to him.

[zootallures2]

False Flag Operations 4 Jesus

It is amazing that after a while the dog learns you are faking and are still holding the stick. But then the dog brain isn't maxxed out processing nonsense, I guess.

[toolmangler-2009]

"These kids are stupid and know there isn't a real threat. If they really want to stand up for something, why don't the say, "Bong Hits for Mohammed"
Posted by JimmyJack122

Now JJ, you know these kids don't want to play in the real world where they 'will' get killed for using "free speech"

[toolmangler-2009]

Free speech is free speech. It doesn't matter the topic. TRUE!!

Free speech can also be used to 'Incite to riot' but that will land you in jail.

Free speech carries a responsibility to never use it to hurt but only enlighten. (educate)

Free speech for the sake of inflicting pain on the hearer sometimes has its own consequence (A punch in the mouth if you are lucky, a bullet if you are not).

You are free to say anything you want but be careful, free speech can be a deadly boomerang.

[jimmyjack122]

These kids are stupid and know there isn't a real threat. If they really want to stand up for something, why don't the say, "Bong Hits for Mohammed"

[nolalou]

What this story dosn't sate, but I heard in a radio report this morning, is that the banner was held on a public street, not on school grounds, but the students were allowed to leave school early to watch the Olympic torch pass by. When the principal saw the banner, she grabed it out of the hands of the students. All the lower courts who already heard this case ruled in favor of the students.

I'm curious to see if free speach will lose this round in the supreme court!

[randalds]

By the way - where can we get on of those T-Shirts. Right up there with the "Life of Brian."
About as sensical as "The penquin on the television has exploded" or "We're all Bozos on this bus."

Why are we so uptight all the time!!!
Posted by saransk at 04:00 PM : Mar 19, 2007

I'm sure you'll soon by able to get one online at a place like cafepress.com or a similar website. Back in the day I got my "Nuke the baby whales for Jesus" from a head shop in Battle Creek. That and my copies of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics. Ahhhh for the good old days.

[saransk]

By the way - where can we get on of those T-Shirts. Right up there with the "Life of Brian."
About as sensical as "The penquin on the television has exploded" or "We're all Bozos on this bus."

Why are we so uptight all the time!!!

[saransk]

Smart-Alect student manages to get the school to overreact. And it winds up at the Supreme Court!!! This principal and school administration needs to get a grip. A perfect example of "Your Tax dollars at work." For what - to prove a high school senior was in bad taste!! This is news!!!
You would think that after years of this behavior school officials would finally realize theis is exactly what the kids wanted - just like when we wore black armbands against Cambodia when the school administration said we'd be sent home. Which was another mess for the high school. This is like getting suspended for playing Country Joe and the Fish over the school public address system or printing everyones salary in the school paper -inadvertantly sent to an unsecured computer. The amount of effort to prove this young man was wrong is so out of wack to what happened - you'd think the moral fabric of society was at risk. And even if high-school students made pro-drug statements - big deal. What kind of things did we say during those years.