Free Speech

Free Speech is what originally the right to speak your mind when and were ever you want. But over the years stereotypes sexual jokes threats and racism have kicked in and the right of free speech had a line drawn through it. Most people say people have fought and died for the right to speak their minds but their are other rules in the constitution that may restrict your speech like a separation from church to school which means that we may respect your religion but you cant express it like Jesus is every ones lord and Savior and try to convert others on school or government property it sucks but it is the rules that our fore fathers set. And their are other restrictions like threatening someone or saying your dead and later someone actually kills the person because you say hes dead you would be held responsible.
        These days people have questions that are like were the line is drawn when it comes to free speech but the line is only drawn school or government property if your on either your restrictions is insulting the disabled or a specific religion and or race and sexual orientation and creating a hostile learning or working environment for others (like rally's protests ect.) or threats but if your not on school or government property your free to say what you want when you want so long as its not a threat or a fake warning (like saying theirs a bomb in my house) or offensive to others (well you can but its not really polite or nice if you do) but if you do protest be ware of dogs, fire hoses, fertilizing trucks, mace, bulldozers. Another issue of freedom of speech is dress code because people say "we have freedom of self expression why cant we dress the way we want?" well theirs a thing these days called a dress code it what makes sure that girls don`t like hookers (only term i could think of sorry for those who are offended) and so on. But anyways as I saying dress codes make sure it is not a distracting environment for other students so they wont get distracted by anything and they can focus on work. their were many court cases that were involving symbolic expression like one day at a school a boy was wearing a rainbow shirt to support gay rights but the school did not like that so they banned everything rainbow shirts sodas, skittles, star bursts anything that had a rainbow then the students sued the school and the court ruled in their favor.
        Their are many cases involving freedom of speech and expression like the famous Hooters vs Cocks case were in Ame's middle school, in Iowa their were a few boys wore shirts saying hooters more than a mouth full for a couple of years no really cared until one day some girls took offense to that so they (with help from a teacher) made T-shirts that said Cocks Nothing to crow that have a rooster on them (ha) about to make a point to the boys so they would know what it would feel like to insult the opposite gender but at the school the teachers looked at that and said to turn those shirts inside out but the girls stated to say that when boys had shirt that said hooters nobody would even raise an eyebrow of interest but when a women wears a shirt that has an offensive slogan insulting men (basically) on it you swarm it like locust on a corn field. So the girls took it to court and at the end the hooters and cocks shirts were banned(too bad). But the ironic thing about that was that the girls wanted to show the guys how offensive those shirts are but they were forced to take them off so the guys didn`t learn a thing so the girls won and lost at the same time.
          Another famous case was Tinker vs Des Moines (a name of a school) were students wore black arm bands to protest the Americans being in the Vietnam war. But at the school arm bands were banned and any student caught wearing would be suspended if he/she would not remove said arm bands. So the next day John Tinker and Mary Beth wore their arm bands despite knowing that they would get suspended and took this issue with district court but sadly the court ruled in the schools favor and after that they went to the next level of court until they got all the way up to supreme court and they explained to the court it is the 1st amendment to the right of free speech and symbolic speech but then the court explained that protests like that can cause the disruption of the learning environment and students causing said disruption can be suspended or expelled so the Tinker lost and ruled in the schools favor. So the right of free speech can apply but restrictions can happen on school or government property so in conclusion restrictions may happen to your right of free speech and self expression depending on how you express yourself.
           Constitutional connections to the first amendment is very tricky these days people wonder what connects the right of free speech and expression has to do with us today. Well the connection is that the first amendment guarantees that we have a right to free speech and self and on occasions symbolic expressions but over the years the constitution put restrictions on it so long as your free expression does not disrupts someones pursuit of happiness and there are other restrictions and court cases but just look up and you`ll read them