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Category Archives: Free Speech
When sending you child to college
When sending your child to college you have two things to worry about. One is that they will say the wrong thing and fall prey to the new Red Guards. Another is that they will join the new Red Guards. … Continue reading
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The First Freedom
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government … Continue reading
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My letter to the president of Wichitaw State University, John Bardo
Dear President Bardo,
It is with some concern that I read of the recent decision by the WSU student government to deny recognition to the Young Americans for Liberty student group. I was particularly disconcerted to read the decision was apparently motivated by the group’s strong support for the First Amendment.
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Ray Bradbury remembered
Note: This was an op-ed obituary published four years ago. I neglected to post it and am doing so now in light of recent controversies concerning free speech on campus. Ray Bradbury died on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, which shouldn’t … Continue reading
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The N-word is the new F-word
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to … Continue reading
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Nous sommes Charlie!
I will have more to say about this after I’ve calmed down. In the meantime here is a sample of one of the covers from Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine where 12 of the bravest journalists in Europe were … Continue reading
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The went and did it
Well, they went and did it. The Red Mesa High School on the Navajo Reservation in Red Mesa, Arizona, a public school with a student body nearly 100 percent Navajo Indian was forced to change their team’s name. Their name … Continue reading
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What should we know? What should we tell?
Note: My weekly op-ed. I will venture a prediction; every single person reading this column has things about them they would rather other people did not know. If you’re lucky, it’s information that would merely embarrass you. If you’re not, … Continue reading
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It can, and does, happen here
Good news on the free speech front from Europe. Lars Hedegaard was acquited in Denmark of charges of saying true, but not nice things about Muslims resident in his country.
The hate-speech trial of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria is still ongoing though. Frau Sabaditsch-Wolff is facing similar charges stemming from… well it appears that in support of her xenophobic, racist, etc etc rants she (this is shocking but I have to say it) actually quoted the Koran
And in America a big-time Washington D.C. lawyer Paul Mirengoff, who happens to be a conservative blogger was made to grovel in public, take down a blog post, and shut up.
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Free Speech
I think as I please, and this gives me pleasure My conscience decrees, this crime I must treasure My thoughts will not cater, to duke or dictator No man can deny, die gedanken sind frei! – Die gedanken sind Frie … Continue reading →