If a student wearing a Barack )bama shirt to school faced this sort of racial harrassment for expressing her political opinions, the press would present it as but one more piece of GOP intolerance. But when it happens to a girl wearing a McCain-Palin shirt, the response is muted and the school seeks to ignore the incident.

She's only 12 years old but Ashleigh Jones is feeling the heat of this election year.

ThatÂ’s because the seventh grader at New Smyrna Beach Middle School was called a racist by classmates for wearing a pro-Sarah Palin t-shirt.

Jones is volunteering at the Republican Headquarters in New Smyrna Beach. The Palin t-shirt was a gift from her fellow volunteers.
But when she wore it to school she learned just how tough politics can be.

“Some of the students were calling me racist because I was Caucasian,” she said. “I wanted the Caucasian man to win. And I told them that’s not true. It’s my freedom of speech, it’s my opinion.”

Interestingly enough, Ashleigh and her family are not planning to sue, nor are they seeking legal intervention to punish the school or her harassers. That’s refreshing in one sense –but I don’t think it is the right response. Given the consistent use of thug tactics to silence those who do not hew to the tenets of Obamism and fall down in worship of the Obamessiah, I think it is important that we take every opportunity to get legal precedents on the books to protect the rights of those of us who dissent from that foul ideology. Not, of course, that I expect the rights or precedents to be respected by a potential Obama Administration or the mind-numbed zombies who are voting for him – but I’d like there to be a crystal clear record of how American liberties were undermined by these folks.

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