Gotta love them
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against a rural North Carolina school system that barred a peace activist from talking to high school students about alternatives to joining the military.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, says the Wilkes County school district and its superintendent violated the First Amendment by preventing Sally Ferrell from distributing pamphlets and other materials that warn students to think twice before joining the military.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ferrell and Bill Towe, director of N.C. Peace Action.
“We’ve tried to find another alternative to bringing this lawsuit,” Katherine Parker, legal director of the ACLU’s North Carolina chapter, said Tuesday. “They just will not compromise.”
The legal group is asking a judge to issue an injunction to allow Ferrell, a member of N.C. Peace Action, to distribute the materials and give her the same access to students as military recruiters who are allowed in the schools.
Not to split hairs, but, the schools are required by law to give recruiters access, since they receive federal money. They are not required to give a group access solely so said group can slam the military. Perhaps if N.C. Peace Action was interested in trying to recruit for their group, I might agree with them. But, certainly not if they simply want to tee off on the very groups and people who have, since the late 1700’s, given them the right to protest.
I wonder if we are going to start to see a pattern here. Just the other day, I posted virtually the same story, but it was from Bridgewater Mass. And N.C. Peace Action, part of the overall parent organization, is extremely far left, and thinks Iran is just a supa! country, and America is the aggressor.
