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Just when you think the politically correct clowns on the campus can't get any more ridiculous, they shoot another live white man out of a canon. Steve Hinkle is an undergraduate at California Polytechnic University. He has been found guilty in the campus kangaroo court of posting a flier on a student bulletin board offending the sensibilities of a small group of students so intellectually fragile they belong in a day-care center. The flier invited one and all to a speech by Mason Weaver, a black man, author of a book called "It's OK To Leave the Plantation," comparing black...

Public University Gives Heckler’s Veto to Students Who Claim “Offense” SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA—In the spring of 2003, a student at the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) was found guilty of “disruption” for posting a flier—in a public area—that some students found “offensive.” The public university placed unequal rights above the Bill of Rights. “Allowing some individuals to veto the protected expression of others is an unconscionable betrayal of Cal Poly’s moral and legal obligations,” said Thor L. Halvorssen, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). On November 12, 2002, Steve Hinkle, an undergraduate and a...

On Nov. 12, 2002, Steve Hinkle, an undergraduate at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, was walking around campus, posting fliers advertising a speech by Mason Weaver, author of "It's OK to Leave the Plantation" (1998, National Center for Public Policy Research.) In that book, Weaver -- an African-American -- traces his own journey "from Berkeley militant to conservative businessman," and argues that dependence on government welfare programs puts many modern African-Americans in circumstances akin to slavery. Weaver asserts that "overseers" and "drivers" still exist on today's "mental plantation." He uses these terms to describe those...

The thought police at California Polytechnic State University have found a white student guilty of "disruption" for trying to post a flier in a public area where black students were eating pizza. The flier advertised a talk by a black conservative. United Press International reported today: On the evening of Nov. 12, undergraduate Steve Hinkle, a member of the Cal Poly College Republicans, walked into the Multicultural Center on the San Luis Obispo campus to post a flier advertising a speech by Mason Weaver. In his book "It's OK to Leave the Plantation," Weaver argues that dependence on government puts...

<p>Kristin Smart, 19, of Stockton, disappeared May 25, 1996.</p> <p>San Luis Obispo detectives are looking at Scott Peterson in connection with the disappearance of a college student nearly seven years ago.</p> <p>Peterson, husband of Laci Peterson, went to Cal Poly at the same time as Kristin Smart, who disappeared May 25, 1996.</p>