Actually he's suggesting it be made a felony for a public institution to violate the constitutional rights of Americans. I tend to agree.
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Good thing that did not happen in this case!
Actually it did, neither the school or athletic conference paid for the cheer uniforms. The photo was taken prior to any sanctioned event, so those kids were representing no one but themselves. They were told exercising their constitutional rights was a bad act and punished for it.
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Who paid for them is totally irrelevant. The uniforms represent both the school and the NCHSAA. I have shirts with my employers name on them for when I do public events, I paid for them myself. If I were to wear the shirt and do something totally unrelated to work while wearing one of those shirts that my employer found to be against their rules, they would have every right to fire me and I would fully expect them to.
Stop trying to equivocate public institutions with private ones. Both the school and athletic association are publicly funded. The school, directly through taxes and the association through a tax exempt status.
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Well...the same rules applied for my uniform I wore in the Marine Corps, which is a public institution. I know someone personally that got in trouble for wearing is uniform while home on leave to a march in his own hometown. His picture made the paper and someone forwarded it to the local reserve unit that then sent it to our command. He went from LCpl to PFC over the action.
Wow, do the strawmen ever end. The military operates under different laws.
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