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New Email At Mizzou Orders Students To Call The Police If They’re Offended
Daily Caller ^ | 11/10/15 | Blake Neff

Posted on 11/10/2015 3:27:26 PM PST by markomalley

As tensions at the University of Missouri continue to rage, the college’s police department has sent a new email to students advising them to call the police if they witness any incidents of “hurtful speech.”

The email arrived in the inboxes of Missouri students Tuesday morning, and copies of it were quickly posted on Twitter.

Mizzou student email [@MadiLAlexander/Twitter]

Mizzou student email [@MadiLAlexander/Twitter]

MU’s police essentially tell students to make a criminal report of any hurtful behaviors (complete with license plate numbers, photos, and more), even though they freely acknowledge that hurtful speech is not a crime. But the email says that doesn’t matter, because the school could still take disciplinary action against students.

Missouri officials may be overreaching tremendously, though. As a public university, the University of Missouri is bound by the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech. Court rulings on such matters have repeatedly held that public colleges cannot punish students for otherwise legal speech and expression they engage in outside of class.

The email continues what has become a chilly environment for free speech and expression at MU. A viral video posted Monday circulated on the web showing a gang of students, led by communications professor Melissa Click, attacking a cameraman attempting to cover on-campus protests in a public area. (RELATED: Meet The Mizzou Professor Who Threatened A Report With Mob Violence)


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: melissaclick; missouri; mizzou; uofmissouri
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To: leaning conservative

Oops, double


61 posted on 11/10/2015 5:23:35 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: markomalley

Of all things now, one of the least important is the “feelings” of the “scatterbrained” in a section of Columbia, MO.


62 posted on 11/10/2015 5:38:19 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: markomalley

This crap is why conservatives need to get off their fat butts, get involved in local politics and elect a pro-2nd amendment, Constitutional sheriff in their counties.

So when the wimpy, PC cops on campus issue a statement that they’ll harass Americans engaging in 1st amendment free speech, the sheriff can make an appearance. The sheriff can tell the little Nazi campus cops that if they interfere with Americans exercising free speech, they will be arrested.


63 posted on 11/10/2015 6:14:59 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: markomalley

If I were a taxpayer in Missouri I’d be calling because I’m offended by the $208.7 million state appropriation (i.e. taxpayer money) going to the University of Missouri Columbia in 2015.


64 posted on 11/10/2015 6:24:26 PM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: markomalley

Just put a fence around the whole campus. Drop in some milk and cookies and let them flame out until Thanksgiving. They’re feeling too offended and unsafe to study anyway.


65 posted on 11/10/2015 6:25:17 PM PST by AdaGray
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To: markomalley

These whiners don’t want to be treated fairly or equal. They want to be treated special.


66 posted on 11/10/2015 7:11:54 PM PST by Boomer (People think I am too patronizing. (That means I treat them as if they're stupid.))
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To: markomalley

These whiners don’t want to be treated fairly or equal. They want to be treated special.


67 posted on 11/10/2015 7:12:00 PM PST by Boomer (People think I am too patronizing. (That means I treat them as if they're stupid.))
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To: Boomer
neutered@missouri.edu offended@missouri.edu
68 posted on 11/10/2015 7:23:53 PM PST by petenmi
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69 posted on 11/10/2015 7:25:13 PM PST by petenmi
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70 posted on 11/10/2015 7:27:07 PM PST by petenmi
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71 posted on 11/10/2015 7:33:48 PM PST by petenmi
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To: markomalley

In but a few days, the name Mizzou has become a synonym for chickensh*t.


72 posted on 11/10/2015 10:21:42 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: markomalley

can just any old American call to say we are offended by these whinny students?


73 posted on 11/10/2015 10:35:29 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: markomalley

I guess these fools do not understand the Bill of Rights.

Free speech is to protect “UNPOPULAR” speech.

What idiots!


74 posted on 11/10/2015 10:53:58 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: markomalley

Hateful, you know. Like praying.


75 posted on 11/11/2015 5:28:43 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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