Posted on 12/18/2015 12:38:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yale University was nationally embarrassed earlier this week when political satirist Ami Horowitz released a video showing students happily agreeing to sign a "petition" that calls for the repeal of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
According to Horowitz, he got 60 signatures in less than an hour.
Now Yale’s spokesperson has suggested the video doesn’t show what it shows.
"There are a number of heavily edited prank videos like this one circulating lately in which someone surreptitiously records people while pretending to support a position that they actually oppose, and trying to get the individuals they speak with to agree with them," Yale spokesperson Tom Conroy told Fox News in an email. "I have to acknowledge that I don't take them seriously as an accurate representation of what every person interviewed or shown in the videos believes."
Here’s another way to look at it, Mr. Conroy. Students attending one of the most prestigious universities in the nation should comprehend what it means to repeal the First Amendment when they’re asked. Perhaps, the truth of the matter is, many Yale students support its repeal.
But take heart, a few Yalies had the appropriate response, expressing sadness and shame at the video, Fox News reports.
"It's a sad commentary on the present state of public opinion," said Professor Bruce Ackerman. And freshman Grant Richardson told Fox News: "It numbs the mind that dozens of Yale students could sign a petition to revoke the First Amendment.”
sheep volunteering to be slaughtered
Who are you going to believe? The Yale elites or your lying eyes?
I wonder if the idiots who signed the petition understood that if the 1st amendment were repealed you could no longer petition the government for redress of grievances.
If they’re liberal they have already accepted tyranny as a key component of government, or, they’re a moron.
And...the GOOD news is that if we are successful in this effort, we will never be bothered by any type of petition again!
"Depends on what the meaning of is is."
Remember when the ivy league actually had standards?
More leadership from an Ivy Plague School.
ask the mindless libs if they are going to vote for Obama again.............
Not really. I'm only 58...
[[Yale University tries to downplay video of students signing ‘petition’ to repeal First Amendment]]
Pathetic that one of the most prestigious universities in the country is full of students that are to stupid to pass an 8th grade civics class.
Why would any parents waste their hardearned money to send their kids to this totally morally bankrupt instiution?
To yell with Hale
RE: Why would any parents waste their hardearned money to send their kids to this totally morally bankrupt instiution?
Let’s face it, morality has little to do with it. The important thing is the idea that you went to an “Ivy League” school.
That gives the stereotypical notion that you have a high IQ and are capable.
The term “ heavily edited” seems to be the new buzz word for slime bags caught on tape.
That’s so very very wrong.
All it means nowadays is that your stupid parents have more money than brains so they can pay the outrageous tuitions for an inferior education at an Ivy Plague college.
Prank? So what? Did the morons sign their name to what they believed was a petition to overturn the 1st Amendment? Then it is what it is.............
Minds Full OF Mush.
What they probably don't understand is that whatever party was in power at the time of the repeal of the First Amendment would very likely be in power for a very long time after.
That party would become the soul arbiter of what was truth, what could and could not be said in public or in private. That party would have complete power of publishing, of the internet and of the airwaves.
They might then suggest that the First Amendment be replaced by something more restrictive but that would still allow free speech but there is not middle ground when it comes to political free speech you either have it or you don't.
Dictator do not accept criticism lightly. Look a Putin his political critics in the press have a very low life expectancy.
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