The Supreme Court examines Monday a case raising questions over free speech rights in US high schools as it hears arguments over a student's unfurling of a quirky banner proclaiming "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."
Joseph Frederick drew the ire of his school principal Deborah Morse in Juneau, Alaska, on January 24, 2002, when the then 18-year-old student unveiled the huge banner in front of television cameras as the Olympic flame passed in front of a crowd.
Hold on, some stoner high school kid in Alaska throws up a banner (because to way to cold to moon people in Alaska) and the highest court in the land takes the case. Who is smoking what here?
Wait, it gets stranger. The principal (who was not happy about the banner) is being represented by Kenneth Starr, the former special prosecutor who led the investigation of Bill Clinton.
Frederick took his case to federal court, arguing that his free speech right, protected under the First Amendment, had been violated and demanding damages from Morse.
Well this is turning out to be quite a civics lesson.
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