But the free exchange of ideas is something that is increasingly denied to conservative voices. Robert Spencer was set to speak at the American Library Association convention last summer but was canceled at the last minute after pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
1 posted on
10/15/2009 11:16:35 AM PDT by
opentalk
To: opentalk
The only “free speech” allowed any more is that which trashes Christians and capitalism and truth.
All others are welcome to promote hate and lies in the increasingly fascist America.
2 posted on
10/15/2009 11:23:23 AM PDT by
eleni121
(For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
To: opentalk
CAIR is alligned with terrorist sympathizers. Our own government calls them unindicted co-conspirators.
3 posted on
10/15/2009 11:27:44 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(The character assassination of Rush Limbaugh is worse than what the Left accused Joe McCarthy of.)
To: opentalk
I believe SLU is a Jesuit University, so I am not at all surprised by their decision.
4 posted on
10/15/2009 11:29:42 AM PDT by
lastchance
(Hug your babies.)
To: opentalk
NO **YOU** ARE CANCELED..!
5 posted on
10/15/2009 11:36:35 AM PDT by
gaijin
To: opentalk
And they are supposed to be the guardians of intellectual discourse.”Intellectual? That factor's been long gone from nearly all our universities!
7 posted on
10/15/2009 12:12:36 PM PDT by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: opentalk
He should pose as an “anti-zonist”.
They would put on a reception for him.
8 posted on
10/15/2009 12:25:03 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
To: opentalk
Anyone else think that Geert Widers speech at Columbia will either not occur or be crashed?
Alumni and people like Ms. Geller are not being let in, but the same kiddies who shut down the Minuteman speech at Columbia will join the MSA in exercising a heckler's veto.
9 posted on
10/15/2009 5:30:51 PM PDT by
rmlew
(Democracy tends to ignore..., threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed)
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