American Fascist
"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...or of the press or the right to assemble."
Hamilton College found it necessary to cancel a panel discussion with a professor who compared 9/11 victims to Nazis. School officials said they had received multiple death threats against college officials and guest speaker Ward Churchill. The college president was quoted as saying: "credible threats of violence have been directed at the college and members of the panel... these threats have been turned over to the police."
This is a major violation of civil rights under the First Amendment to our Constitution. Multiple death threats are nothing less than domestic terrorism and reek of fascism.
My intent is not to ratify Mr. Churchill's hurtful remarks about the victims of 9/11; nor his controversial praise for the perpetrators of the attack, but simply to emphasize that he has a constitutional right to make those remarks. More importantly, the college students, faculty and members of the panel have a constitutional right to peacefully assemble and evaluate the validity of Churchill's remarks.
We are told that our goal in Iraq is to bring them freedom. Ironically, our troops are being killed in Iraq trying to provide freedom of speech and assembly, while at home fascist successfully intimidate a college with death threats.
Some question the judgment of college administrators for allowing students to hear Churchill's remarks. At eighteen years of age, they are adults and the purpose of a college education is to learn critical thinking, evaluate information from a variety of sources and come to a reasonable conclusion.
Can students be old enough to die in Iraq, but too immature to reach reasonable conclusions? Have the terrorist been swallowing and then violently regurgitating the pap, Russ Limbaugh has been foisting on the public? Is a constitutional amendment needed to deny college professors and radio propagandist freedom of speech? The sword of censorship cuts both ways.
In his Feb. 7th. column in a daily paper Bill O' Reilly commented extensively about the Hamilton College situation, but neglected to mention the death threats. Instead, he used the term "major angst" as the reason Churchill's appearance was canceled. So much for fair and balanced news reporting from Fox News.
Hamilton College found it necessary to cancel a panel discussion with a professor who compared 9/11 victims to Nazis. School officials said they had received multiple death threats against college officials and guest speaker Ward Churchill. The college president was quoted as saying: "credible threats of violence have been directed at the college and members of the panel... these threats have been turned over to the police."
This is a major violation of civil rights under the First Amendment to our Constitution. Multiple death threats are nothing less than domestic terrorism and reek of fascism.
My intent is not to ratify Mr. Churchill's hurtful remarks about the victims of 9/11; nor his controversial praise for the perpetrators of the attack, but simply to emphasize that he has a constitutional right to make those remarks. More importantly, the college students, faculty and members of the panel have a constitutional right to peacefully assemble and evaluate the validity of Churchill's remarks.
We are told that our goal in Iraq is to bring them freedom. Ironically, our troops are being killed in Iraq trying to provide freedom of speech and assembly, while at home fascist successfully intimidate a college with death threats.
Some question the judgment of college administrators for allowing students to hear Churchill's remarks. At eighteen years of age, they are adults and the purpose of a college education is to learn critical thinking, evaluate information from a variety of sources and come to a reasonable conclusion.
Can students be old enough to die in Iraq, but too immature to reach reasonable conclusions? Have the terrorist been swallowing and then violently regurgitating the pap, Russ Limbaugh has been foisting on the public? Is a constitutional amendment needed to deny college professors and radio propagandist freedom of speech? The sword of censorship cuts both ways.
In his Feb. 7th. column in a daily paper Bill O' Reilly commented extensively about the Hamilton College situation, but neglected to mention the death threats. Instead, he used the term "major angst" as the reason Churchill's appearance was canceled. So much for fair and balanced news reporting from Fox News.
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