[IthacaRepublicans]

Fellow Conservatives,

This post is to alert you all to the situation at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. We brought Bay Buchanan to campus to speak on "The Failures of Feminism". She was tremendous, but now campus radicals are attempting to declare her talk an incident of hate. Not seeing an opportunity there, they have now turned their attention to any future events we may hold.

From the article: "Rothman said the committee is now looking at scenarios in which a public speech could be deemed a bias-related incident so the committee will be prepared to deal with future incidents like this one."

Our story has been picked up by Rush and FoxNews and we're hoping to head the libs off at the pass, before they can declare any public speech they dislike to be hate speech.

From FoxNews.com: When the posters first appeared, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Alliance (BIGAYLA), the Student Government Association (SGA) and Students for Women's Empowerment (SWE) immediately demanded that our Republican club be punished.

"When I saw that flyer, I read it as 'Bay Buchanan is here to hang me,'" said Katrina Baker. She said the "Constitution is irrelevant on this campus. We are [a] private [college]. We do not go by that here." Daniel Baker, president of Created Equal: Allied in Fighting Homophobia, said the poster was in poor taste, "especially in Gaypril when there is heightened risk of violence against the LGB community."

Any help that you could provide us would be welcomed, we're a young club facing entrenched leftist radicals. If you have any suggestions, please e-mail us at icrepublicans@yahoo.com.

Conservative blessings,

Kyle B. Clark

Chairman, Ithaca College Republicans

[goodnesswins]

..."especially in Gaypril when there is heightened risk of violence against the LGB community."

What the heck is "Gaypril?"

[goodnesswins]

Remember, only YOUR opinions (and those of Bay Buchanan) are considered "hateful." (Sarcasm/) Liberals are the most hateful of all, and don't really believe in free speech for anyone who disagrees with them. STAND FIRM. Don't let them railroad anyone into this.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

She said the "Constitution is irrelevant on this campus. We are [a] private [college]. We do not go by that here."

Kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it.

Back in the 1960's, as Bill Buckley put it in Up From Liberalism, liberals would defend people's right to disagree with them, but didn't think that anyone did. Now the radicals know that people disagree with them, and will use a mailed fist to crush any dissent. Since they have abandoned the idea of free and fair discussion, they must be opposed with all of the legitimate tools of political power.

[Eternal_Bear]

Looks like you have to fight for your freedoms every single day. Remember Freedom of speech was never meant to protect inoffensive polite speech. Sometimes politcial speech can be tough, biased and contentious as it should be! These college whiners who protested the Buchanan speech need to be identified as enemies of the Bill of Rights and of the Constituition itself. Put their mugs on a poster so we know who they are! Keep up the good work!

[pierrem15]

Want to really fight back? Get a list of alumnii and let them know what's going on & how perhaps they ought to reconsider their donations.

[F16Fighter]

I'd love to see these freakin' fascists try and make a Federal Case out of this.

[Restorer]

Why don't you post a copy of the objectionable poster so we can make our own decision about its "hate speech" content?

[krogers58]

"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."Plato

I think the conservatives primary "talking points" on campuses, everywhere,should focus on how they are denied free speech rights, and the fact that the left wish to censor views which do not agree with their convoluted logic. If ideas cannot be debated, then higher education is doomed, much as science was during the dark ages.

[goodnesswins]

ping

[general_re]

IthacaRepublicans, meet bentfeather and BehindLiberalLines ;)

We had a small discussion about this earlier today, here. And a wide-ranging thread about WTF is wrong with the state of NY here, following one of Joseph Sabia's columns here.

Anyway, welcome aboard, and happy Gaypril 15'th ;)

[Fish out of Water]

Being a private college Ithaca has a lot more latitude in who should be allowed to speak on campus and what subjects are discussed. Those who don’t like the choices made can find an alternative school. Free speech does not entitle anyone to come on to my property and make offensive comments to me. Ithaca probably takes government funds directly and indirectly through Veterans scholarships and other sources. My concern after reading the comments here that if we allow school choice and vouchers that the government will feel as justified as many on this forum in dictating school policy.

[general_re]

Almost forgot - in case you haven't heard, Ithaca is the City of Evil.

City of Evil bump.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Office of Student Affairs and Campus Life?

Hey Ithaca, eat more mosquitos!

I'm glad I left the dump you made...........

[NativeNewYorker]

WELCOME TO FR and God bless you folks!

I guess the folks at IC are trying to out-dumb the Reds at Cornell!

[Landru]

"'What is a public forum?' Rothman asked rhetorically. 'What are fighting words? This all generates very good, challenging, complex discussion.'"

Now...this one's really deep.
Perhaps next in the imbecile's intellectual evolution he might contemplate other, more lofty questions such as, "What is a job?" "Will I be able to hold one?" "Will my employer put-up with my bullshit or, through me out the door on my ass?" -- rhetorically, of course.

"Trouble began before Buchanan even set foot on campus..."

Totally *accidental* too, no doubt -- no doubt.

"The Republicans apologized for the fliers at an April 3 meeting attended by more than 50 students who were disturbed by the posters."

Why the apology?
I don't get it; at a real loss on this one...
Bump the, "Disturbed Ones" Prozac; &, send 'em packin' on their way.
What the hell are they spawning up there in that NYState hellhole, anyway?
It's kind of obvious they've wayyyyyyy too much time on their hands.

"'We do not go by that here.' Daniel Baker, president of Created Equal: Allied in Fighting Homophobia, said the poster was in poor taste, 'especially in Gaypril when there is heightened risk of violence against the LGB community.'"

...OK; next month is Mayids?

[junta]

Have your fellow campus pubbies look up Herbert Marcuse and his idea of "Repressive Tolerance." Basically Repressive Tolerance means any idea from the right is to be slandered, ridiculed and its bearer to be burdened by Stalinist perjoratives such as "racist", "anti-semite", and the newer versions such as "homophobe" all in an effort to discredit the idea.

[Lancey Howard]

I realize that these idiots (Rothman, et al) are youngsters and everything but do they have any inkling whatsoever that what they want to do, ultimately, is regulate free speech?

Every time I wonder how low the scumbag liberals will go, I get surprised by something worse. These fools are testing the foundation of this once-proud nation, and maybe that is a good thing, but then some of these mice end up in positions where they can either appoint or be appointed to judicial positions by Democrats, where they can actually do great damage.

[Benson_Carter]

welcome to Free Republic!

I'm a 21 year old conservative from Rochester, I am trying to start the YR up here in Monroe County.

Too bad I couldn't make it to Ithaca for Bay's speech.

Please keep me posted on what goes on down there. Maybe we'll run into each other soon.

[Saundra Duffy]

Oh, brother.