…and More Stifling of Free Speech
Yesterday, student-terrorists at Butler University couldn’t find the words to debate David Horowitz — who was invited to speak at their university — so they assaulted him.
Idiots on the Left are laughing it off, saying “It was only a pie in the face. Lighten up.” Except that throwing a pie at someone is assault. And those students should be expelled by Butler and arrested by the Indianapolis Police Department.
Butler spokesman Marc Allan called Wednesday’s incident “deplorable.”
You’re fucking right, it’s deplorable. Now, Mr. Allen…what are you going to do about it? Because the most deplorable thing would be for Butler to ever allow those student-terrorists back onto campus.
In possibly future related news, lawmakers In Fla. back public use of deadly force.
TALLAHASSEE, April 5 — People in Florida will be allowed to kill in self-defense on the street without trying to flee under a new measure passed Tuesday that critics say will bring a Wild West mentality and innocent deaths.
The Florida House, citing the need to allow people to “stand their ground,” voted 94 to 20 to codify and expand court rulings that allow people to use deadly force to protect themselves in their homes without first trying to escape.
The new bill goes further by allowing citizens to use deadly force in a public place if they have a reasonable belief they are in danger of death or great bodily harm. It applies to all means of force that may result in death, although the legislative debate focused on guns.
Look for more and more controversial Conservative speakers to start touring in Florida if this law is passed.
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Michelle Malkin draws our attention to this post by Robert at Bright Mystery, a college professor in Indiana, who challenges Butler University president Bobby Fong:
I issue the same challenge to Butler University president Bobby Fong and the Board of Trustees that I issued to the president and provost of Earlham College after a similar incident involving Bill Kristol: You have an opportunity here to take an ugly situation and make a stand for what your university will and will not accept as intellectual discourse. You should expel the perpetrating students from the university immediately; issue an apology to Horowitz and to the Indianapolis community; and denounce in the strongest possible terms the substitution of physical humiliation and intimidation for intellectual argument.
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UPDATE: Rob at SayAnything understands:
Nobody’s right to free speech gives them license to silence another’s free speech and certainly the fact that some assholes on the right engage in the same sort of nonsense doesn’t make this sort of behavior any more excusable.
If we want free speech in this country we must realize that it can only exist when we all say what we want to say and then shut up when its the other person’s or the other side’s turn to speak.
And Crystal Clear has one of the more thoughtful roundups on Liberal Pie Throwers.
No, you’ve got it all wrong. See when someone who is a lefty does this kind of crap it is there right to protest, but if someone does it to a lefty then the effect is “chilling” free speech. You’ll need to be assigned to the re-education classes.
“…denounce in the strongest possible terms the substitution of physical humiliation and intimidation for intellectual argument”
Never happen, because, by-and-large, those who run the halls of academia long ago lost those 2 small appendages in their nether region that allow for actually taking a stand.
They got no balls.
Feed The Children
Would the left be outraged if it were midgets they were being tossing at conservative speakers instead?
Interesting question, GatC…
Midgets are a minority, so we can surmise that they are owned by the lefties.
Lefties have a long history of loudly proclaiming themselves as champions of the “little people”, while at the same time crassly using those for whom they claim to advocate, in the pursuit of raw political power.
I’d say this would be the scenario: the Dems would toss the midgets, blame it on the Repuke-likans, and raise taxes for programs to further enslave the midgets.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
UG,
Great post. It is important that right thinking people continue to contest the bizarrities passed off as “education” and “diversity” on college campuses….these students are going to take care of us in our old age!
Closer to home, I’ve blogged on what appears to be institutional bias at the University of Texas. Click here: http://austinvitw.blogspot.com/2005/03/something-stirs-in-40-acres.html
and
here:
http://austinvitw.blogspot.com/2005/03/something-stirs-in-40-acres-part-ii.html
We need to dig deeper into the permissive attitude of university administrators towards dissenting opinions and hold our taxpayer servants to account.
Thank you very much for your mention and kind words. You also have written a very thoughtful piece. Great job
It’s too bad that Mr. Horowitz was a deplorable speaker. The few excellent points in his speech were clouded in his animosity toward the natural development on college campuses toward the left (with the exception of business schools). Not only did he come across as un-educated, but he also came across as one of the most racist people of our time. The pie-throwing incident was unfortunate, but to blame the incident on Butler students is just plain wrong. This was a public event that just happened to have been held on Butler’s campus. It has been determined that it was members of the general public who were not affiliated with the university that threw the pastries.
In the future, if Mr. Horowitz feels the need to continue his poor speeches that are filled with prejudicial influence, then perhaps he should think about providing his own security. On a small campus like Butler, where the campus police also patrol the surrounding neighborhoods, it is unreasonable for him to request that our police department be stretched past its limit because he is a risky speaker. Needless to say, Butler did the best it could given the circumstances. Butler took a risk in trying to appease the lopsided balance at many universities, and it got burned. Butler tried to do the right thing, and all anyone has done is to rip Butler apart. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.