ShriEEEk!!! Only Anti-choice freedom of expression allowed.

Seven students at St. Patrick's Catholic High School in Thunder Bay were suspended for wearing handmade pro-choice stickers on white t-shirts during a school sanctioned pro-life 'Day of Silence'.

Students were asked by the school to sport white t-shirts that said 'Life' in red tape, which in and of itself is a bit odd. Telling kids to become billboards for the church's policy...

So fifteen-year-old Alexandria Szeglet along with 23 other kids that disagreed with the event decided to sport green stickers that said "choice."

The school asked them to remove the stickers... 17 complied and the seven who didn't were suspended.

Imagine that... a school in Canada suspending kids for taking a position that is actually legal in Canada.

From here.

Have anti-abortion students been prevented in secular schools from wearing a Tshirt that simply said: "Life" ? I don't think so.

Added: the predictable abortion-criminalizing spin, claiming the "Choice" students were disruptive.

Also: contrast and compare - a number of posts at DJ! about those elaborate sham displays titled "Echoes of the Holocaust" (produced by the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform) that have been challenged wherever they have bullied their way onto university campus.

Not just terrorists, but racketeers too!

Now here's a dandy idea from Jade7243 at TPMCafe: Use anti-racketeering legislation against the anti-abortionists, or as she calls them, 'the extremist anti-abortion conspiracy'.

RICO or Racketeering Influenced Criminal Organization, is a collection of statutes that can be used to prosecute organized crime -- like the Mafia -- but is not limited to those kinds of groups.

Using RICO instead of domestic terrorism would allow prosecute of not just the shooter, but those who conspired with him to commit murder, those who raised money in support of the RICO activities, In short, it is not just Roeder, but Randall Terry, any and all of the other leaders and members of anti-abortion groups which have either directly or indirectly called for violence against abortion providers or their families. conceivably, the Bill O'Reillys or Sean Hannitys, Glenn Beck and countless other small-time talk radio hosts or newsletter writers, bloggers, documentary film producers, etc., whose incendiary rhetoric would incite violence from their followers.

She quotes lots of sections of the law to explain how it might work.

Sounds good to me.

UPDATE: That link is busted. The post has disappeared. I wonder why.