Comments on: Good News on the Free Speech Front

By: Methinks

Methinks — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:07:32 +0000

universities are very selective in the speech they protect and the speech they punish. If a professor publicly calls for “a million more Mogadishus” or calls workers in the World Trade Center “little Eichmanns”, then the Universities are quick to hide behind free speech and intellectual freedom, etc. All other opinions are obviously a danger to society and should be punishable by long sentences in the Gulag.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:49:13 +0000

Thanks, Charlie.

By: Charlie B

Charlie B — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:29:16 +0000

The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution extends the Bill of Rights to all governments in the US and creatures of the governments like the University of Delaware.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:21:50 +0000

Well said. But is it true that the “first amendment is there to protect speech we don’t like from punishment by government bodies such as the state-run University of Delaware”? I’d have thought that it’s there to protect your speech from the federal government, just as it is there to prohibit an established religion for the federation.