Posted on 04/25/2014 10:44:44 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Two students are suing the University of Hawaii for violating their First Amendment rights after administrator prevented them from distributing copies of the U.S. Constitution — demonstrating a frightening lack of knowledge about the very legal document they were attempting to censor.
Students Merritt Burch and Anthony Vizzone, members of the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at UH-Hilo, were prevented from handing out copies of the Constitution at a recruitment event in January. A week later, they were again informed by a censorship-minded administrator that their First Amendment-protected activities were in violation of school policy.
The students were told that they could only distribute literature from within UH-Hilo’s “free speech zone,” a small, muddy, frequently-flooded area on the edge of campus.
Administrators further clarified their level of respect for students’ free speech rights, making comments like, “This isn’t really the ’60s anymore,” and “people can’t really protest like that anymore,” according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
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The school should lose accredidation.
Remember in the 60’s the left DEMANDED entire campuses had to be “free speech zones”. How things change in one or two generations.
As usual, they realized they didn’t like free speech if it disagreed with theirs.
Hypocrites and a-holes all. May they rot in hell.
Not letting me pass out copies of the Constitution are in exactly the same category.
My call stands.
I have walked onto the campus of several universities and no one ever asked me what I was doing there.
And remember, the people passing out copies of the Constitution were students at the university, giving them a “right” to be on campus.
I’m pretty sure the university loses on this.
>>I have walked onto the campus of several universities and no one ever asked me what I was doing there.<<
True but they could and then escort you off the premises. I worked as a manager for a State University and those of the kinds of things you learn.
>>And remember, the people passing out copies of the Constitution were students at the university, giving them a “right” to be on campus.<<
Not my point. You made it sound as if standing on a state university is the same as standing on a street corner. It is not.
>>I’m pretty sure the university loses on this.<<
Theoretically they should but I wanted to note it is not going to be easy. Also just because they should win doesn’t mean they will in uber-left HI. It may have to go all the way to the US Circuit before it gets proper legal treatment.
Where is the 13th Amendment Zone?
In the end, it doesn’t matter. America is lost. When the person living in the White House ignores the Constitution, handing out a copy of it just doesn’t matter.
TRANSLATION:
The socialists are power now so you can shut the f*ck up and sit down...
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Maybe the coming provisional government will enact a bounty on democrats.......
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