CASE STUDY: A STUDENT'S FREE SPEECH

To the Editor:

In the student free speech case before the Supreme Court, Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy made the assertion that the student's sign was
"completely disruptive" of the school's antidrug message. Well, isn't
that what the First Amendment is all about?

If a competing thought is disruptive of a fundamentally propagandistic
message, that is precisely what the First Amendment was intended to
promote and protect. We've got a strange crop of justices these days.

Orin Hollander

Jamison, Pa.