Posted on 12/04/2009 7:12:09 AM PST by bs9021
Wash U Targets Conservative Students
Allie Winegar Duzett, December 4, 2009
Washington University in St. Louis is charging conservative students over $800 for vandalism they did not commit.
Several red hammer-and-sickle images were found spray-chalked onto the campus sidewalks. Campus Gulag reports:
The university, failing to find out exactly who is responsible for the spray-chalking, is holding the [Young Americans for Liberty] students responsible for it. The Campus cops have repeatedly used words like felonious property damage (because the ‘damage’ is in excess of $750, which is a Class D felony in Missouri) in order to intimidate the students and are holding that over the heads of the students like the Sword of Damacles if the students refuse to pay up.
Essentially–someone defaced school property. The school doesn’t know who to blame, so they’ve blamed the easy target: students who don’t follow the university line.
Also from Campus Gulag:
There are several important points to keep in mind here, I think.
1) The students had nothing to do with the spray-chalking.
2) The students are ENTIRELY INNOCENT.
3) The university has ZERO evidence that the students sprayed anything. From what the students have said to me, the campus cops have a video of someone spraying, but they have checked it out and it is NOT any of the YAL students....
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
Left wingers repeatedly perpetrate commie hoaxes to slime conservatives. I bet that this is true here.
Sounds akin to the black student putting a noose on his dorm door and claiming racism.
If it is “spray-chalk”, won’t it wash off with a water hose? Are they saying they spent $800 in water to do this??
Union work rules. This is a special, non-negotiated project.
So they're blaming conservative students? Since when did the hammer and sickle become a conservative symbol?
The only way to make them back off is to file a lawsuit.
I’d recommend a slander suit.
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