Posted on 04/12/2011 8:14:33 AM PDT by SmithL
UC Davis students angry about rising tuition have staged many protests in the last year and a half – including sit-ins at campus buildings, a naked rally on the quad and a march that almost walked onto Interstate 80.
Now students are staging a new confrontation against campus management, accusing administrators of spying on their activist movement. Student activists and the American Civil Liberties Union will hold a press conference at UC Davis today to call attention to their allegation that university officials have violated students' rights to free speech by monitoring their demonstrations.
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So what if private citizens observe their protests and hand the info over to administration?
I’d be happy to.
The first Tea Party event held on the steps of the CA State Capitol was being watched from the roof by police and photos taken of those in attendance. Among some of those in attendance were Michelle Malkin, Neil Cavuto, Congressman Tom McClintock, Lloyd Marcus, Armstrong and Getty (talk show hosts), Michael Reagan. Wonder who in attendance was labeled what by Big Bro and Big Sis?
Same story recycled from the 60’s. Nothing changes.
The admin approves of the protests, they’re just making sure the proper causes are promoted.
Yep, I expect lots of cameras at this Friday’s Tea Party rally in San Jose.
NOT VERY SMART for STUDENTS, are they?
"a naked rally on the quad"
I bet they had a whole bunch of people MONITORING that protest. Whether they worked for the college or not.
It sounds like maybe they are trying to help the student protesters to stay out of trouble. But weren’t some university officials threatened by these protest groups as well? I think they might be interested in keeping track of those kinds of things too.
Let me see, you protest to get attention but complain when you are watched. So should the school ignore them? But then if the schools ignores them they will complain that school isn’t listing. So should the school listen to them with out paying attention? But if the school listens with paying attention (witch what the government is good at) how do the expect the school to understand what they are protesting about?
I think they need a government grant to study this.
1) Entitlement-Generation Morons hold public protests in order to get noticed.
2) Entitlement-Generation Morons’ public protests get noticed.
3) Entitlement-Generation Morons become ‘outraged’ that their ‘free speech rights’ have been violated by those who noticed their public protests.
Does that about cover the steps in the (il)logic of the Entitlement-Generation Morons at UC Davis?
It’s sad how few people understand what free speech is, and what it is not. Free speech does not include the “right” to tell your boss what you think of him and not get fired, nor does it include the right to post even here on FR from work or from anywhere in a manner that our host (JimRob) finds offensive. It also does not include a guarantee that no one in authority will make an effort to listen to what you say in public. UC Davis did nothing wrong, but these whiners are still complaining. Liberals are pathetic.
Isn’t one of the key goals of any protest to get noticed and get your message out? Are these secret protests?
It would seem to me that the the adminstration completely ignoring the protests would come closer to denying free speech rights than monitoring them does.
Any rights to privacy in public spaces has long ago eroded.
Lefty students. Oh good. I’m glad that they are not conservative students. because then I’d be upset by Stalinist tactics. As long as these are being used against someone I disagree with, I’m not concerned.
Petulant children pretending to be adults, all the while living in the safety of Mom and Dad’s basement...
Meen wild, haf the kidds at kolledge cant no even more spell or rite
tha koreck werds thay whant too sA! And aritmotic wif noe
kalkulater, forgit it. Bunche o’dumeees.
What is the point of a demonstration if you don’t want the body you are protesting against to hear what you have to say?
Next time, hold the protest in your parents’ basement and don’t allow anyone else in. If anyone does “monitor” it without a court order you almost certainly have a case.
If you want attention and do it in public, you are probably going to be seen and if you allow anyone to join you may get people you don’t expect.
I go to lefty protests and photograph them. I’ve found them to be far more suspicious than right wing or Tea party protests.
Tea partiers will happily pose with their signs.
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