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Free speech, but only within limitsLessons taught by a high school
principal
The flag is a piece of
cloth.
It has NO MEANING except what people bring to it. Considering some of the tacky things that have incorporated the stars and stripes (including a National Anthem that you should be a trained vocalist to sing without straining yourself), I am really surprised when people get excited over "desecration." Like this. The spectacle of the girl destroying the Stars and Stripes was there for all to see. First it was onstage, in a school play. (It wasn't really a flag, but it looked like it.) Then a photograph of the scene hung for weeks in a hallway of St. Francis High School in the northern Anoka County town. But when the school paper, the Crier, tried to publish the picture, the principal censored it. Now the editorial board of the Crier is crying First Amendment foul. The school district superintendent is defending the decision, saying the photograph could be offensive. It's not freedom if you only defend the inoffensive. It's the spirit of liberty that I respect. Not a piece of cloth that has long since become the symbol of a ever expanding statist bureaucracy. 
Posted: Sun - January 21, 2007 at 03:15 PM
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