COURT VOTES DOWN LIBERTY

Re: "Justices reveal shift to right," yesterday's news story.

If preventing drug use among students is more important than free
speech, "No Bong Hits 4 Jesus" T-shirts should be OK. I see a
marketing opportunity.

Can students be suspended for advocating medical marijuana or lowering
the drinking age? Of course, we have decided that safety is more
important than liberty.

If Chief Justice John Roberts were a real strict constructionist, he
would have seen that the First Amendment protects free speech, even if
the government really, really wants to punish it.

Conservatives are judicial activists for a police state, liberal
justices for socialist utopia.

Both are wrong.

Robert Guest,

Ennis