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Friday, February 20, 2015

By Stephen Lee Byrd, S.B.

The News-Press just will not let it go about the illegals controversy and its derogatory speech toward Latinos. The latest was Andy Caldwells Guest Opinion which I would love to rebut point-by-point, but no one will extend me anywhere near the space he got in which he makes a number of specious criminal allegations, that he never really lays out factually, and just calls a councilmember a bunch of pejorativenames.

To my knowledge, the pro-Latino dissidents have exerted their right to assemble (in De la Guerra Plaza) and their free speech rights, but have not involved the government at all. What use of the power of government to crush and silence others? If the daily paper is going to wail and gnash its teeth about its own free speech rights, the bottom line is that the paper needs equally to respect the free speech rights of the pro-Latino dissidents. They have a right to speak up and say that the journalistic choices made were disrespectful, lacked a civil tone, and were bogus. Equally, the daily needs to respect my free speech rights by not censoring and suppressing my critical responses of January 6, 20, and 24. Free speech rights are not just for newspaper editors and owners. They are truly a two-way street. Otherwise its the pot calling the teakettleblack.

The continued reckless, combative, and confrontational rhetoric of the daily about this will remind us of the Rev. Ian Paisley in Northern Ireland or Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia vs. Bosnia (and later Kosovo). They too recklessly fanned the flames of inter-ethnic tension into a campaign of ethnic cleansing and ended up ripping apart their communities. Do not think it cannot happen here. As ye shall sow, thus shall yereap.

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Whose Free Speech?

OPINION: The problem with defending free speech is that if you go to bat for the dead and heroic cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, you also have to defend Hollywood's right to make jokes about killing the leader of North Korea and a daft heavy metal band's right to insult a chunk of the public simply because they feel like it.

It was apt that the story about the Canterbury Museum's display of an offensive anti-Christian T-shirt broke on Black Friday. On February 13, the world learned that among the hundreds of collectable shirts in the T-Shirts Unfolding show, there was an infamous one produced by UK band Cradle of Filth in the 1990s.

On the front of the black shirt, there is a picture of a sexualised nun. On the back, in large white letters, the slogan "Jesus is a c...".

The T-shirt was ruled objectionable in 2008 by the Office of Film and Literature Classification which said that it degraded and demeaned women and represented Christians as "inherently inferior to other members of the public". It crossed the censorship threshold and was "injurious to the public good".

If you own one, you risk up to five years in jail. An Invercargill retailer was fined $500 in 2012 for owning eight, which were then destroyed.

The shirt is not just a problem in New Zealand. There have been several convictions in the UK, with one man pleading guilty to the arcane crime of religiously aggravated offensive conduct. The judge in that case told the 35-year-old to "grow up".

Even Cradle of Filth's drummer was charged with creating a public disorder after being caught in his band's shirt. But you expect that kind of tomfoolery from an attention-seeking metal act. What about a responsible institution like the Canterbury Museum?

"We bent over backwards to follow the letter of the law," says Canterbury Museum director Anthony Wright.

We met in his office on Wednesday morning. There had been an incident at the museum just the day before when a woman got past a guard and into the small booth where the T-shirt is displayed in a perspex case. She produced a can of paint and began spraying the case black. The paint was cleaned off and the matter is now with the police, Wright says.

There is a strong element of deja vu about all this. The display case containing Tania Kovats' Virgin in a Condom, which featured a condom on a statue of the Virgin Mary, was attacked in 1998 when it was in a show of contemporary British art at Te Papa.

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The filth and the fury

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Wading into the volatile issue of invoking God at graduations and ball games, the Kentucky Senate on Thursday passed a bill touted as providing a guide to public schools on the religious and political free-speech protections of students.

A leading supporter, Kent Ostrander, executive director of The Family Foundation, said after the Senate's 30-4 vote that the bill would put "a stake in the ground for free speech and religious liberty" for students.

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Student free-speech bill passes Ky. Senate

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Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal 6:58 p.m. EST February 19, 2015

FRANKFORT, Ky. The Kentucky Senate on Thursday passed a bill that supporters say clarifies, but opponents say muddles, state law on students' religious and political speech rights.

The bill passed on a 30-4 vote.

The bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Albert Robinson, R-London, said the bill, "Simply codifies in the law various federal court rulings that speak to the First Amendment Rights of students."

But Sen. Morgan McGarvey, D-Louisville, said, "It's been stated that this bill doesn't expand the rights of students in Kentucky. Well, if it doesn't expand the rights, why look at it?"

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The bill says students are free to express religious or political opinions in class assignments free from discrimination or penalty. It would prohibit teachers from reviewing or altering remarks of a student speaker at a school event, and prohibit public school and university officials from interfering in the affairs of student organizations including the organization's policy on selecting its members.

Before the bill passed, senators approved an amendment of Sen. Wil Schroder, R-Wilder, which would let a teacher review a student speech before delivery as long as the teacher does not try to change the student's viewpoint expressed in the speech.

Sen. Perry Clark, D-Louisville, noted that during a committee hearing advocates for the bill did not give any specific Kentucky situation that showed the need for the bill. Clark said the bill does not clarify but "confuses" what Kentucky law says about student free speech rights.

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