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Civil Liberties
Where these three articles are concerned there are definitely some freedom of expression issues. In the case of the student who rolled out a banner calling for 'bong hits 4 Jesus' and was suspended, I personally can see why school officials had a problem with that. The young man admitted to doing it deliberately to try to provoke the principal, who had disciplined him before, and that he just thought it would be funny. However, most people - whether they find the banner funny, offensive, or something else - would have to agree that it appears to promote drug use. Because he was at a school-sanctioned event and the school has clear rules against the promotion of illegal drugs, I agree that his freedom of speech should have been restricted and I think the court was right in ruling against him.
Regarding the dress code case, there needs to be dress codes in schools, but schools have gone FAR overboard in what is acceptable and what is not. They have to be realistic. Students need to be covered, and they don't need to wear something that advertises drugs, alcohol, or sexual promiscuity, or that contains vulgar language. Other than that, many dress codes cause too much restriction of freedoms and are more trouble than they are actually worth. There is no reason that a student can't wear a particular color, just because a gang somewhere across the country wears that color. At that rate, no one would be able to wear any color because of various (often mistaken) connotations, which is just silly.
When it comes to the court case regarding the woman who wrote about molestation, torture, and murder of children on the Internet, this should certainly be allowed. There were no pictures, and if a person wrote something like this in a book, he or she wouldn't be prosecuted. That's why it's called fiction...and people should be allowed to express themselves through their writing. She didn't force anyone to read it, and if they didn't like it, they could certainly stop reading. What luxurious lives these people must have that they have time to be offended by this
Civil Liberties, a Price to Pay for Safety? Terrorism is something that a country or a nation has to deal with at some time or another. The United States experienced a terrible tragedy on September 11th 2001 when the twin towers in manhattan collapsed due to hijacked airplanes. Ever since then, America has been on high alert in order to avoid another catastrophe. Some of the measures taken such as the
Civil Liberties: Jones case is one of the major recent cases regarding civil liberties that basically examined whether the government requires a search warrant before placing a GPS device on a vehicle and tracking the movements of that vehicle. The ruling by the Supreme Court in this case upholds the extensive right for citizens to be free from unreasonable searches. However, the ruling on the case also demonstrated the struggle within
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However, during war it becomes all too easy to look for convenient ways to disregard even the most important laws. The first, and most dramatic, effect of war is to increase the general fearfulness of a population. Fear and anxiety rocket way up during wartime, and are fueled by all the myriad effects of such conflicts. But another, less-well-understood reaction to war on the part of a both the individual
Civil Liberties The United States is a country founded on the notion of protected civil liberties. After all, the pioneers who came to the country in the 18th century were themselves fleeing from persecution and seeking the freedom to practice their religious beliefs and the right to discuss their diverging views in public. Today, these freedoms are protected by law under the Bill of Rights. They serve to protect individual freedoms from