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Palmers Fight the Power in Waxahachie, Texas

By Bruce Carton

"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions, yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.... If there is no struggle, there is not progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.... Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them...." -- Frederick Douglas I'm not trying to make a direct comparison between the family in the case below and one of this country's great freedom fighters, but can't we still give some props to the Palmer family of Waxahachie, Texas? On Sept. 21, 2007, Paul Palmer, a sophomore at Waxahachie High School, went to school wearing a T-shirt with ?San Diego? written on it. The school's assistant principal told Palmer his shirt violated the school district?s dress code, which did not allow T-shirts with printed messages. Palmer called his parents, who for unknown reasons (but perhaps related to the struggle for the progress of human liberty?) brought...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 01, 2009 (boomark / email).