Friday, November 6, 2009

Meanwhile, in Texas...


from this morning's Inside Higher Ed:

Community College Sued Over Limits on Rallies

Two students -- backed by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education -- are suing the Tarrant County College District, charging that its limits on rallies are violations of First Amendment rights, the Associated Press reported. The college permits protest activities only in a limited free speech zone, and requires advance permission to schedule events there. College officials say that the rules are consistent with federal and state requirements. But the students say that they are being blocked from engaging in legitimate protest. The students want to rally on behalf of the right to carry concealed weapons on campus and they say that they are being barred from wearing empty holsters on campus as an expression of their views.

According to the AP report:
The students plan to participate in a nationwide demonstration next week known as "empty holster protests," calling attention to police forbidding concealed weapons on campus.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know what I'd do if a student wore an empty holster to class. It is unsettling.

Anonymous said...

Didn't the governor of Texas float the idea of ceccession a year or so ago? Could we please encourage that sort of thing? Maybe the whole south can go with it. No civil war. Just, "OK."

Anonymous said...

I'd be happy with both Dakotas, Wyoming, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Utah, Tennessee, Iowa,
Idaho and Kansas all running along. They all absorb too many Federal funds as it is while proclaiming their patriotic self reliance. Texas is a mixed bag, as it does have Austin and Houston, but if it chooses to go also, fine.

Anonymous said...

Are these holster guys just trying to look really self important? Like they're a vestige of the old west, the alst real men? If an armored Bradley thundered down the street they'd cry like little girls.

Anonymous said...

It's the angle.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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