Same here. How many rednecks you think they have on the jury spouting off about "heritage not hate"?

have the right of free speech in the school. If this case was about his wearing of the flag in the general public, then obviously he would be within his rights to wear the flag, but not school. The "Jesus...bong hits" case is similar.

I'm surprised at how few people are standing up for the kid. I thought every redneck under the sun would stand up for him. I happen to believe the kid does have a constitutional right to be an idiot and wear the flag in school. But I will certainly exercise my own constitutional rights in calling him a lowlife piece of trash.

There should have just been a bench decision referring to Tinker and Hazelwood. We've already had the Supreme Court rule repeatedly about student freedom of speech that is disruptive. Having a jury trial was just a waste of time and money.

Not that I agree with Tinker, but I wasn't there so I don't know how "disruptive" the armbands could have really been...

The student doesn't have the right of free speech in the school.

You are absolutely correct, Glen. If the kid wants to go to boomsday with the stars and bars on his shirt, no problem. Schools must be able to enforce a dress code, however.

you're all missing the bus. the only solution to this is mandatory dress codes. Tinker does not apply because there have been no incidents causing disruption where the flag is implicated.

let's hope the jury does the right thing and finds for the student.

Case after case after case has upheld the right of a public school to impose a dress code on students, up to and including school uniforms. From that standpoint, a Confederate Battle Flag garners no more special consideration than baggy pants and midriff exposing tee shirts. The jury acted foolishly in its failure to reach a verdict. More than this, the judge acted foolishly in permitting this to go as far as a trial. The whole complaint ought to have been dismissed with prejudice.

I also have a problem with this "It's my heritage" business. I could easily be wrong (there was that time back in 1966) but somehow I doubt that kid is remotely aware of 99% of the history that really is his heritage.

If his ancestors were East Tennesseans, they were most likely Unionists anyway.

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If his reason is heritage then he needs to know the flag on his belt is upside down! I don't own a Confederate Flag but I do believe the man had right to wear it under current dress codes written by the Anderson County School Board. The dress code is pretty much open to the opinion of the principle. It should be more specific and not require the opinion of the principle.

would probably suffer a permanent derailment if people knew their history better. Like the fact that 71,000 years ago (give or take) the eruption of the supervolcano in Lake Toba on Sumatra nearly wiped out the human race. The theory of leading scientists says that humanity today is ALL related to approximately 10,000 human beings that managed to survive in Africa (because the tropical refuges there were more numerous). Elsewhere on earth a volcanic winter plunged the planet ecosystem into a nearly decade long cooling cycle which exacerbated an ice age that was already beginning. The volcanic winter of the Toba eruption destroyed the growing seasons for at least six years. Not only did the human population nearly go extinct, so did a lot of species of plants and animals. The biggest volcanic winter event in recorded history so far has been the Tambora event which caused the "year without a summer" in 1816. That volcanic eruption was 40 times LESS than the Toba eruption.

There is not a single "pure" race on Earth and all the "Southern Heritage" you can muster will not change that. We all come from the SAME roots, even the Biblical story of Adam and Eve says so.

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The "Heritage not Hate" mantra is pretty much negated by the presence of Kirk Lyons, the Klan and Nazi-sympathizing lawyer who is pictured in the NS standing behind the plaintiff and his counsel. And seeing (and hearing) that kid on TV was a hoot. I'm relieved not to be kin to him. The Dixiecrats must be so proud.

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And to top it all off, that crazy old HK Edgerton showed up too -- he and June Griffin need to get married.

Betty (and everyone else), check out Joe Powell:

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on the Kirk Lyons involvement and more.

Yeah!

the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that [William Blount] school officials had a right to ban the [Confederate] flag because they could "reasonably forecast" that it would disrupt education

Anderson County, please contact Blount County for advice.