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Originally Posted by Twoller
It is bad enough when people have political access to students inside the school. But at least there is some supervision there. On the streets there is no such supervision. Nobody should be trying to contact students who are trying to go to or come from school, that's just creepy and nobody with any sense should be doing that.
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Are you serious? Students have access to all kinds of political advertisements both on and off school grounds. They can walk off campus and see billboards on the sides of busses that lobby for one cause or another; They can walk to and from school and see ads on billboards high in the air from ClearChannel, Turner Media, and anyone who musters the will and funds. They also pass out their own fliers from PTA and local interest groups both on and off campus. How in the hell do you stop free speech and commercial advertisement? You cannot. This legislation wishes to control the flow of it so as to control the content. They didn't aim it at anyone except small political groups that have content they don't like. Your proposal is to fight back by opposing all political speech near a school? Good luck with that one. It would be shot down by the ACLU, the courts, and just about every faction of the political party spectrum, who I might add, are up to their noses in political outreach to students.