Danny Lampley Arrested: Lawyer Charged With Contempt For Staying Silent During Pledge Of Allegiance

[proud2BlibKansan]

TUPELO, Miss. — When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed.

Attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours behind bars Wednesday before Judge Talmadge Littlejohn set him free so that the lawyer could work on another case. Lampley told The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal he respected the judge but wasn't going to back down.

"I don't have to say it because I'm an American," Lampley told the newspaper.

The Supreme Court ruled nearly 70 years ago that schoolchildren couldn't be forced to say the pledge, a decision widely interpreted to mean no one could be required to recite the pledge.

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[sakabatou]

1. WTF?!

[Waltons_Mtn]

2. You have the right to remain silent.

Oh wait. You have the right to say the words and mean them or I throw you in jail. Now that's LIBERTY!!! :sarcasm:

[Art_from_Ark]

3. If they had had a law like that when I was in high school,

practically my entire home room would have been thrown in jail!

[indepat]

11. Judge succinctly clarified what life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness are all about in the land

of the free and home of the brave. ;)

[dhill926]

4. this is absurd............n/t

[TexasObserver]

5. Someone will file a complaint against the judge.

I'm sure the state has a Judicial Conduct Commission of some kind, which investigates and addresses abuse by judges. The judge is out of line. Some of them don't know any constitutional law. They barely know the law of the state they're in.

[lib_wit_it]

8. Next they'll be jailing us for not joining in on their Xtion prayers. Don't worry, though, I'm sure

the Teabaggers, who are *totally* into freedom will stage a protest.
:sarcasm:

[TexasObserver]

9. The battle for civil rights and civil liberties never ends.

The percentage of Americans who are ignorant of basic rights seems to be increasing. That a judge would think he has the right to make an attorney pledge allegiance is further proof that we're sliding back into the 1950s.

[Hannah Bell]

6. every battle fought in the 40s-70s is being revived.

[Zanzobar]

7. This battle is over

It's just a matter of processing the delinquents.

[Heidi]

10. Recommended.

:kick: