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December 09, 2006

Nixonian leakers witch hunt at the high school? What of the First Amendment?

If this is true, I don’t think it’s the best idea in the world to use Sam Allen and the LISD Police Department as a “plumbers unit,” like Nixon’s Watergate snoopers, to track down leaks.

Whether it’s legal or not is besides the point. It’s unethical, it violates the spirit of the First Amendment (already being violated there on church-state issues, I think) and it just sent morale nosediving into the George W. Bush popularity rating levels.

I hope this isn’t what’s happening. But, if it is, the district can’t “win” this one. Certainly not in the court of public opinion

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