[RummyChick]

There is a legal issue that has to be researched. Just because others were holding them doesn’t mean that it was legal...sort of like..hey everyone else was speeding...why didn’t you give them a ticket.

Selective enforcement of the law might be an issue but you still have to find out what is allowed on school property. There is a different set of rules.

[sand lake bar]

Sure, research it by all means. But in the meantime, I’ll state that I don’t believe the school has any legal right to lease itself out for a political meeting and then allow some jerkwater fascist security guard to make judgments about what kind of speech will be allowed.

You may be aware that all over America schools are even occasionally leased out to religious groups, the Boy Scouts, etc., and when that happens the school has no authority to police the types of speech that take place in such meetings.

I’m not a lawyer, I’m just using some Constitutional and empirical logic.

[kabar]

This was after hours. There were almost three thousand people there. Moran and Dean were using the school gym to hold the town meeting. Political signs abounded inside and outside the meeting area. I think you are off on a tangent about the legality issue. This was public property.

This was just an example of someone trying to come up with a phony excuse as to why free speech was not allowed. Hell, the cop said he was trespassing by holding the sign.

I was there. The Fairfax County police did nothing to restrict the signs. I was asked to move outside from under the covered walkway because of the echo effect of my bullhorn. But no one tried to restrict my right of free speech or the sign I was holding. This school property issue is just plain nonsense.