The education system fails again

Recently at Missouri State University there was a lot of protesting by students who proved that the education system is failing the next generation. During an event titled Momfest in what has been designated as a free speech zone officers politly told the organizer to ask the bands from using the F word because a complaint had been registered. I am not going to state or debate rather the school was wrong not but I am going to say the response by students showed a complete ignorance of the constitution and what freedom of speech means. As I read comments in the school paper by both the papers staff and fellow students I wondered did any of them ever take a basic social studies course or political science or anything.

First of all to be perfectly clear freedom of speech does not nor has it ever meant you can say anything you want at all. I can not run in to a croweded theater and yell fire casing said theater to lose business. I can not maliciously and with ill content  attack people even if what I say is true. Further more I wonder if these teens and young adults had ever heard of libel, slander, or the alien and sediation acts.

Everything mentioned above proves that while I may be free to say anything I want there are consequences which could include jail. During war people were arrested for criticising the goverment and no that is not recently that was well before even the civil war. The paper porported they could print the f- word in its entirity if they wanted to. The funny thing is that the Supreme Court has said obscenities are not protecetd by the freedom of speech clause. So is everything protected by freedom of speech no. I am not going to debate what constitutes obscenities but the f- word legally is not an obcenity.  So while the school may have been wrong the students showed a complete ignorance of the constitution and the law. America has a long history of what many would term censorship freedom of speech does not protect everything nor has it ever nor was it intended to.  Why do supposedly inteligient people college students not know this something I learned in high school and several times later in numerous constitutional law classes, and yes political science classes that should be required of all students.