When was the last time you heard about Conservative students at a University try to shut down a speaker? I can’t remember, but I’m sure some butt heads tried it somewhere at least once, possibly in retaliation to leftists. I do remember one particular protest against one particular commencement speaker down at The Evergreen State College (or as we call it up here in the northwest – Marxism U) down in Olympia, WA a few years back. This was a bit different case in that the speaker was actually not present due to the fact he was, and still is, on death row. The students taped remarks by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted cop-killer, for the occasion. Personally, I don’t think convicted cop-killers sitting on death row have a right to address anyone but themselves.
Senator John McCain does not fall into that category. Senator McCain is a war hero and former POW.
Bob Kerrey, the institution’s president and a former Democratic governor and senator from Nebraska, announced this spring that U.S. Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican and past and possibly future presidential candidate, would be the commencement speaker at the New School. Kerrey said the senator’s acceptance “is a big honor for our graduates and their families.”
But hundreds of students, staff and faculty members at the institution of about 9,000 students have signed paper and online petitions that seek to revoke the invitation.
And what sparked the moonbat rage?
Several students and faculty members pointed out that McCain has supported banning gay marriage in Arizona, and that, three days before his visit to the New School, McCain will be speaking at Liberty University, whose founder and chancellor, Rev. Jerry Falwell, has openly expressed his opposition to homosexuality.
“Up until a few months ago, I was happy he was coming,” said Anthony Szczurek, a New School freshman. “I think the thing that bothers me the most is him speaking at Jerry Falwell’s school.” Szczurek said that he thinks it’s not appropriate to have a speaker that is hostile to the gay community speak on a day of celebration at an institution with a vibrant gay community.
Harper Keenan, a sophomore, has helped organize the dissent. “In all of our classes we’re taught the value of inclusion of all people,” he said, “and we’re taught to question our leaders.”
Read “inclusion of all people” to mean anyone except those whom we disagree with. If you need further proof these little creeps are against free speech, here’s this:
Some McCain opponents have said that they don’t want the New School’s commencement to be a political stop for a man they are assuming will be running for president.
That’s pretty much it. They claim it’s not a free speech issue because the allowed Paul Wolfowitz because they said there was some sort of “give and take”. I think it is a free speech issue. Citing one anecdotal example proves nothing. A better gauge would be to see a list of speakers over the past few years.
In another case anti-free speech, students and academics at Boston College are trying to stop Dr. Condoleezza Rice from speaking at their commencement because she is an integral part of the current hated administration. Never mind that she is the Secretary of State of the United States. Never mind that she is an expert on Russia and foreign affairs. Never mind how she overcame the obstacle of a being a black woman born in Alabama and became one of the most respected and powerful individuals in the country, she is a Bush appointee and that makes her unworthy to be heard in the “minds” of the moonbat left.
In a word, it’s simply disgraceful. These idiot moonbat kids know nothing of sacrifice and hard work. They aren’t worthy enough to clean John McCain’s toilet or take out Dr. Rice’s trash. I’m not pro-McCain for President. I think he’d be almost as big a disaster as the Hil-de-beast, but I would never show the man one iota of disrespect – especially because of his experiences in the Vietnam War.
These people are not about free speech. If you believe that they are, then you also believe Stalin was too.
VW
I dunno, were the grand wizard of the KKK coming to my school to speak I would probably be on whatever comitte was trying to block him. Is that against free speech? When a university invites someone to come and speak they are more or less representing the university. To invite John McCain to your univeristy is to tell the student body that you endorse what he has to say and to some degree would like them to follow in his footsteps. The university is private property Senator McCain is losing no right by not being allowed to speak there.
On another level these students are pretty damn ignorant. To call Senator McCain hostile to the gay community for seeking to ban gay marriages is paramount to hate speech itself. Its a false accusation based on their own personal bias...that they didn't know about until someone told them, heaven forbid they do their own research on a giant political figure coming to speak at their school.
Posted by: Just another republican | Sunday, May 07, 2006 at 04:40