Re: Some facts about the FEMA Director


"Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sandi" <sanditypes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "Sandi" <sanditypes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> "Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>> By way of an appropriate response, you might point out to him that,
>>>>> just as flag-burning is protected political speech, so is the proper
>>>>> display of the flag. Which part of the First Amendment is it that he
>>>>> doesn't like?
>>>>>
>>>>> Eliyahu
>>>> Well, the update on that is this (it's a woman professor, by the way):
>>>> I came in this morning and there is a 6 foot by 3 foot American flag on
>>>> the wall, with a somewhat but not much smaller Marine Corps flag
>>>> hanging underneath. The fellow who had the original flag and one other
>>>> person who sits near us are both joining the JAG. Professor came in,
>>>> looked at the flag, asked if everyone sitting nearby had agreed to it,
>>>> which we all said we have, and said, "Okay, I guess it has to stay,
>>>> then."
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>>> Does she require group approval for any other desk decorations? If not,
>>> she's setting herself up for some real problems with that approach. What
>>> would she have done if someone hadn't liked it?
>>>
>>> Eliyahu
>> Well, the place where the large flags ended up is a public wall, not the
>> personal space it was in when she originally asked him about it. So it
>> is kind of our "shared space," and since the flags take up the whole
>> wall, I think it's okay to ask if we all agreed to it. Having said that,
>> however, I'm way ahead of you. There is another wall that was essentially
>> taken over by different students and I suspect no issue was made of it,
>> so I'm fully prepared to address that if necessary.
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> I'd anticipated as much. It's certainly a mistake to try and pull that
> stuff on senior law students anyhow... :-) I assume that she's not a
> professor of constitutional law?
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> Speaking of professors of constitutional law, did you see Professor
> Dershowitz's eulogy on our late Chief Justice?
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20050905/cm_huffpost/006844
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> Eliyahu
You're just needling me now, aren't you?

Sandi


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