I posted on another thread that the ACLU only takes cases where nonwhites' 'rights' are violated. Here is a prime example. I remember several cases where White students wearing Confederate Flag clothing were suspended. Did the ACLU take their case? HELL NO. Sickening. To them, and to ZOG, Whites have no civil liberities.

ACLU asks for apology in 'Latinos' T-shirt case
Woodbridge school principal detained young boys whose clothing had slogans on it

BY ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Apr 4, 2006

The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday asked a Northern Virginia elementary school principal to apologize to two students for suppressing free expression. The children were kept out of class last week because they wore T-shirts bearing the slogans "Latinos Forever" and "100% Latinos."

The state ACLU also wants the principal to clear the incident from the boys' records and to assure that the Woodbridge school won't violate students' free-speech rights by issuing a statement indicating that such clothing will be allowed in the future.

Principal Todd Erickson of Occoquan Elementary School barred the boys, ages 8 and 5, from classes Friday because they were wearing the T-shirts on the final day of weeklong protests by Northern Virginia residents who oppose proposed immigration restrictions. No protests occurred at the elementary school.

"School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students," Virginia ACLU executive director Kent Willis said in a telephone interview. "Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational process, but schools ought to be encouraging students to express themselves."

In a letter to Erickson, Willis cited the 1969 Supreme Court decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, which held that the First Amendment protects students' political expressions during school hours so long as they don't materially and substantially disrupt the education process. The decision upheld a student's right to wear a black armband to protest the Vietnam War.

He called last week's incident a "carbon copy" of the Tinker case.

Erickson detained the second-grader and kindergartner in his office as they were on their way to their first class, out of concern that the T-shirts would be disruptive. Their parents refused to have their children change their shirts, instead opting to take them home, said Prince William County schools spokesman Philip Kravits.

"This is about a principal's best effort to keep his school safe and orderly, nothing more," Kravits said in a statement. "The principal made his best judgment call by asking the parents to have their children change shirts that might prompt some older students to want to walk out of school and into harm's way."

Willis said the boys are the youngest he's seen involved in school free-speech issues. Generally, he said, they are middle and high school students who independently develop their own ideas.

"This is a case where clearly the parents, or at least an older relative, [are] involved," Willis said.

But he said First Amendment rights are unrelated to whether a person is sophisticated enough to understand the message.

"It would certainly seem that children of this age aren't likely to understand the political implications, which makes it even more unlikely they would cause disruption," he said.