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In Defense of the F-Word

You have to give it to The Smoking Gun. They continually outdo themselves. Read here an 8 page legal defense, by a high school kid, of his use of the f-word. The kid was approached one day at school by the vice principal who accused him of smoking in the bathroom. The kid responded with a volley of f-words, calling the vice principal many colorful phrases from the f-word family. The vice principal immediately smacked him with some kind of charge - like suspension or detention or something along those lines - but later those charges were dropped to something relatively mild like "interfering with faculty." The kid, though, believed that he was being charged with speech crimes, and so took the thing to court. Either he, or his attorney, wrote out this eloquent, fascinating defense of the f-word - I'm not sure which. Unfortunately, the case never got to be tried, as the boy struck a plea bargain with the school shortly before in which they agreed to drop the charge if he, in turn, would agree to not get into anymore trouble for four months. This is something straight out of movie.