Focus (Forum & Focus)
Apr. 8, 2008
School Suppression
Forum Column - By G. Arthur Meneses - A recent ruling allowing the censorship of a student’s writing shows society’s willingness to tolerate less freedom, less clarity and less-understandable rules in the face of perceived threats.
By G. Arthur Meneses
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It has always struck me as somewhat anomalous that our most important rights are set forth in succinct and ill-defined terms, but that we painstakingly detail every conceivable aspect of other laws that are, by comparison, relatively pedestrian. Take, for example, the so-called "freedom of speech," which is fully and completely set out...
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