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To: J Edgar; counterpunch; Dr. Sivana
Suing is the key. Forty years ago, I was a YAF state chairman and a law student. To bring the state university to heel on the subject of guaranteeing to students who had paid tuition that their classes would not be disrupted or prevented by antiwar demonstrators at the main campus, all that was necessary was a serious meeting with the university provost and submission to him of the legal briefs that would be filed against the university and copies and its leaders unless the classes were reopened by suppressing the excesses of the antiwar fascisti together with decisions obtained from federal courts throughout the nation.

The litigation should be filed. It should seek money damages from the school and from its decisionmakers and police authorities as individuals and in their professional capacities. It should seek a full range of equitable relief including temporary and permanent injunctions. The students should be prepared to haul the defendants back to court on motions to hold the defendants in contempt each and every time they violate any injunction. Bear in mind that this is a taxpayer-funded government school which has little authority to control the content of speech that administrators do not like. The losing school and administrators also get to pay gargantuan attorneys' fees and costs to the prevailing plaintiffs under relevant federal civil rights laws.

Together with the litigation, wage a public relations campaign pledging any net proceeds to fund conservative campus activity and recruiting on campus. Discredit the school's leaders for their civil rights violations against students who dare disagree with them. Publish quality literature for distribution on the campus in question and all similarly situated campuses in the state to show students what membership in YAF can mean by way of facilitating rebellion against school administrators engaged in suppression of free speech on campus.

46 posted on 09/16/2010 1:11:42 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society: Burn 'em Bright!)
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To: BlackElk

Thanks for the first hand experience and insight. I agree 100%. These people must be challenged, or our forefathers have fought and died for nothing.


55 posted on 09/16/2010 2:52:10 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: BlackElk; kristinn; Jack Black; Travis McGee; neverdem; JenB

That is the epitome of an excellent post, the sort of thing high among the reasons I stick around at Free Republic. Thank you, sir!

A few pings for general interest and ping list consideration.


68 posted on 09/16/2010 8:23:42 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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