DYSTOPIA: What happens when your house is too “smart” [9:16] – Amazon suspended a customer’s constitutional rights after a delivery driver – who was wearing headphones – claimed he heard a racist remark as he was walking away from the house. The homeowner wasn’t even there. The last I checked, the First Amendment protects speech and the Fifth Amendment says we cannot be deprived of liberty or property without due process of law.
Amazon didn’t care. Based on one driver’s report, Amazon locked the homeowner out of all his Amazon accounts, logged him out of all his Echo devices, and locked him out of his home for six days. It turned out that the doorbell had simply issued the automated response, “Excuse me, can I help you?”
Incredibly, the guy says he is only “seriously considering” disconnecting his home from Amazon. What he should be seriously considering is suing Amazon for violating his constitutional rights!
FIRST AMENDMENT: Recently, a Tennessee public middle school teacher forcibly removed a student’s cross necklace. The family contacted the ACLJ, which sent a letter to school officials informing them of the incident and requesting their prompt attention to the egregious violation of the student’s constitutional rights. The only time when school officials may regulate speech is when it “materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others.” Because of the ACLJ’s involvement, the teacher and school officials were forced to apologize to the student.
RACISM: A federal jury has unanimously ruled in favor of Shannon Phillips and awarded her $25 million in punitive damages and $600,000 in compensatory damages. The court said Phillips had convincingly proved that her boss fired her because of her skin color. Phillips is white. The boss is black.
SATAN STORY HOUR: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w9-QaQeCi30 to see Babylon Bee’s short video.
SAVED: “Many people have a hard time comprehending how someone can change from a life that the world says isn’t a choice. Many don’t understand how real God is, but I am living proof! Two years ago I was set free from a lifestyle of bisexuality, crossdressing, and witchcraft.
“I felt in my heart that this life wasn’t who I was suppose to be. No one told me to change. I didn’t go to a church or hear from a religious leader that my life was wrong. I simply cried out at my lowest moment for an answer and God himself revealed the truth to me. My old life was buried in baptism and I am now a new creation. I no longer am the same person I was. I am free! He wants this for you also. I pray everyone who sees this that there eyes and ears be open and there hearts be softened to the truth that sets us free.” – Skyler Stroud
TOLERANCE: Middle schoolers in Massachusetts have been accused of “intolerance and homophobia” after they chose not to wear rainbow colors on the school-approved spirit day celebrating Pride Month. Even worse, some of them wore only red, white, and blue, chanted, “U.S.A. are my pronouns,” and took down LGBT-themed banners and stickers they said were offensive to them. The principal said the school would likely implement a program to teach students about tolerance and acceptance.
How about teaching students about their constitutional rights, which are protected at all times and places on school grounds? The United States Supreme Court has upheld the right of students to express their opinions or religious beliefs, even if they are controversial. In 1969, the United States Supreme Court ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Even earlier, in 1943, SCOTUS emphasized the importance of protecting students’ rights to freedom of speech and expression so as “not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth [not] to discount important principles.”
The only time when school officials may regulate speech is when it “materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others.” Destroying property and chanting loudly probably qualify; declining to wear pride themes clothing definitely does not.
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/middle-schoolers-accused-of-homophobia-after-chanting-usa-tearing-down-pride-decorations
- Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 506 (1969) @ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/393/503/
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)@ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/319/624/
- https://aclj.org/religious-liberty/victory-teacher-who-took-cross-from-student-apologizes-along-with-school-administrators
GRAMMY NOTES: For the record, I am happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxxVTBdtGhQ – bird of prey
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“Happiness is…” That picture is all wrong. It’s MiladyJo who is using a cane. I frequently carry her purse for her. And we only have one dog. Oh, also, I don’t have a husband.
Otherwise, yup. Getting close to fifty years of best-friendship.
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We’ll be celebrating 44 in October. 🙂
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