says it all
Posted on 03/23/2015 12:32:27 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Ted Cruz announced his presidential campaign at Liberty University this morning in front of a captive audience of nearly 1,400 students—none of whom had any choice in whether to attend.
That's because all Liberty students are obligated to show up for convocations on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Absenteeism results in "four reprimands and a $10 fine," according to student Eli McGowan, who is president of the campus's Young Americans for Liberty chapter.
McGowan complained on Facbook that Cruz's decision to make his announcement at a Liberty U. convocation was "starkly deceptive," since it might appear to outside observers that throngs of students had decided to support Cruz of their own volition.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
I watched the video of the speech.
No one forced those students to rise up and give standing ovation after standing ovation.
Cruz has these leftist poop heads spinning.
This is why I don’t trust Liberaltarians: did these students know about this policy when they chose to go to Liberty? Were they forced to go to Liberty?
The students are not forced to attend Liberty University and must follow the rules of being there for Ted Cruz.
uh, Reason....isn’t the libertarian position that the liberty is exercise before you enroll in Liberty U? You know, if you don’t like the 3X week convocations, DO NOT GO TO LIBERTY!!!
This is where Reason is off the friggin rails.
says it all
I would guess that the reporter hunted around for a while until he found a suitably complaining student who would make his point for him.
Exactly. They were energized and Cruz was powerful.
>Me thinks the journalists at Reason are afraid Cruz would enforce Federal pot laws.
Maybe Cruz will make booze illegal and save tens of thousands of established lives each year.
I would go even if I hated cruz, because I would go if I was in colleg and it was 2007 and Barry Obama was speaking because you get to see someone who MIGHT become a president at some point. Consider it a personal, seeing and being in a small part of history thing.
Tell me about it, already they are starting in with the vicious crazy talk on Huffington, one woman actually calling Cruz “extremely arrogant” LOL! Compared to who? Obama? The King of arrogance? LOL!
I wonder if he complained when our troops were forced to sit in for one of the _resident’s many snoozers?
Oh my...............LOL!!
Losertarians want to reclaim the Republican party for free drugs and isolationism!
If you want to see for yourself; C-SPAN is rebroadcasting Ted's speech at 5:31 PM EST late this afternoon.
Hopefully he won’t. Maybe he will respect the fact that the 9th & 10th Amendments supersede any federal pot “laws”, especially after marijuana has been made legal again in 3 States + DC...& the list of States will rise in future months.
Exactly...there are some libertarian 'Free Staters' in the soviet Red Hampshire legislature at the moment, but they had to run as REPUBLICANS to get elected.
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