Posted on 10/06/2004 9:22:15 AM PDT by churchillbuff
Reviled at birth, the Free Speech Movement is returning under a crown of glory to its UC Berkeley home this week.
More than 50 events are being held to mark the movement's 40th anniversary, including an echo of the captive police-car episode. The week's highlight will be a noon rally Friday atop a police car in Sproul Plaza with former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean among the speakers.
No one knew at the time that the 1964 campus conflict would be viewed, much less honored, today as the political earthquake that spawned a generation of student protests across the nation.
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"Reagrding the Free Speech Movement...YEEEEAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!"
Oh boy! Old naked hippies with long haired wigs, unshaven and unbathed out in a reuinion force.
See how much "free speech" there is at UC Berkeley if a Alan Keyes or a Clarence Thomas or a Antonin Scalia or a pro Israeli speaker comes to campus...
Exactly. These paragons of free speech are the same thugs who try to shout down conservative speakers, intimidate them from not speaking at all, tear down posters advertising their visit, and who steal whole press runs of publications they don't like so as to prevent others from seeing it.
Michelle Malkin had to cut short a recent visit to a college campus because of security concerns. I wonder if it was Berkeley?
Lets see where "Free Speech" on campus has gone. At Berkeley you will never hear a Republican/Conservative speaker and anyone who attemps to say otherwise is smeared. The local fire dept. tried to express their free speech by putting American flag decals on their trucks, but we ordered to take them off. The local conservative student paper has had numerous instances of vandalism at the hands of hateful leftists, yet the university does nothing. Sure, this celebration is hypocrisy.
Free Speech began at Berkeley???
Too bad it morphed into Political Correctness.
Intelligence-Free Speech, maybe.
Happy birthday to Berkeley's 'Free Speech For Me (Not Thee)' movement.
Liberal free speech at its very heart -- totalitarianism.
I can assure you that there is little evidence of free speech at UCB or in Bezerkely itself.
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