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California college bars student from handing out copies of Constitution
FOX News ^ | Sept. 19, 2013

Posted on 09/19/2013 3:20:48 PM PDT by digger48

The Constitution guarantees the right to free speech, but don’t try to pass out copies of it at Modesto Junior College in California. A student at the school who tried to pass out pocket-size pamphlets of the very document that memorializes our rights got shut down on Sept. 17 – a date also known as Constitution Day. Campus authorities told Robert Van Tuinen, who caught the whole thing on videotape, he could only pass out the free documents at a tiny designated spot on campus, and only then if he scheduled it several days in advance.

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She explains that there is a designated place “in front of the student center, in that little cement area,” where free expression is allowed, but then notes that two people are already using it. “You’d have to wait,” she says. “You could go on (Sept.) 20th, the 27th or you can go into October.”

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TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: academia; democrats; federalfunding; liberalism; publicuniversity; rapeofliberty
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Free Speech by appointment only.

And only if you stand anywhere... in this general area, right in here.

Anywhere, below the stereo, and on this side of the Bicentennial glasses.

Anywhere between the ashtray, and the thimbles.

Anywhere in this three inches.

Right in here, this area, that includes the area beside the Chiclets, but nowhere near the erasers.

1 posted on 09/19/2013 3:20:48 PM PDT by digger48
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Forty years ago the universities were the hotspots of the so-called ‘Free Speech’ movement and now the same people who fought for Free Speech are now censoring everyone they disagree with.

Why are they doing this on the taxpayer’s dime?


2 posted on 09/19/2013 3:22:47 PM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: digger48
Anywhere, below the stereo, and on this side of the Bicentennial glasses. "Anywhere between the ashtray, and the thimbles. Anywhere in this three inches. Right in here, this area, that includes the area beside the Chiclets, but nowhere near the erasers."

One of the best movies ever scripted!

3 posted on 09/19/2013 3:23:07 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: digger48
Sadly, incidents like this from academia no longer can be viewed with incredulity.
So much of America's "higher" education is a joke, but a very expensive joke.

4 posted on 09/19/2013 3:26:28 PM PDT by Amagi (God Save the Republic.)
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To: blackdog

The text was impervious to Google search.

What movie was that from?


5 posted on 09/19/2013 3:29:17 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: MeganC

Ah yes. The old “free speech zone”. Sadly enough I saw a sign in downtown Reno that designated a “free speech zone”. Purty frickin’ sad.


6 posted on 09/19/2013 3:32:12 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: digger48
The government cannot establish a national church. This now interpreted far too broadly -- "You cannot pray in public [unless you are a Muslim].

The government cannot restrict your right to speech. Many people now get upset when non-government bodies restrict speech. The property owner (such as a junior college) tries to restrict speech, and people start screaming.

I may not like all the end results, but I try to remember which parts of the Constitution limit the government, and which parts allow citizens to make their own choices. My religion is my choice (all the time); my speech is my speech (unless the owner of the property wants me to shut up).

7 posted on 09/19/2013 3:32:16 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Yossarian

The Jerk.

I took some liberty with a half dozen or so of the words


8 posted on 09/19/2013 3:32:39 PM PDT by digger48
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So they are going to make little Hyde Parks everywhere?


9 posted on 09/19/2013 3:33:23 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Yossarian

“The Jerk” with Navin Johnson, as the carnival barker who guesses your weight for a prize.


10 posted on 09/19/2013 3:37:16 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: MeganC

“Forty years ago the universities were the hotspots of the so-called ‘Free Speech’ movement and now the same people who fought for Free Speech are now censoring everyone they disagree with.”

History has shown us, so many times now, that when the dissenters take control, they allow no dissent.


11 posted on 09/19/2013 3:38:48 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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especially leftists


12 posted on 09/19/2013 3:40:00 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: digger48; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; All; everyone

Walter Williams had a really good column in the newspaper yesterday. He listed many of the recent incidents at various colleges including the one of William Penn at Michigan State that was videoed by one student.

Williams suggested that students should record professorial propaganda and give it widespread distribution over the internet.

Vladimir Lenin said;
“Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted”

That’s the goal of the leftist teaching agenda.....


13 posted on 09/19/2013 3:41:43 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: digger48

I’d have told them to F off and arrest me then SUE THE CRAP out of them. Call Landmark Legal and let Mark Levin have at them.


14 posted on 09/19/2013 3:42:16 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Note to the NSA: I approved this dissention. What are you going to do about it Punks?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Maybe I’m wrong but since a college gets government funds wouldn’t that make it a public place and therefore a ‘free speech’ area?


15 posted on 09/19/2013 3:44:27 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: ClearCase_guy
The property owner (such as a junior college) tries to restrict speech, and people start screaming.

Your implication is this is a case of a property owner restricting speech. The story doesn't indicate if the junior college is private, so, I googled the name of the college, and it's part of the California Community Colleges System. The property owner is the State of California that's trying (successfully) to restrict speech. I dunno, seems worth screaming about.

16 posted on 09/19/2013 3:47:43 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: blackdog

Not just a prize! It’s about 15¢ worth of crap! (It’s a profit thing)


17 posted on 09/19/2013 3:50:10 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: Vendome
So they are going to make little Hyde Parks everywhere?

Not if they have to allow those icky conservatives

18 posted on 09/19/2013 3:50:46 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ClearCase_guy
The property owner (such as a junior college)

Most junior colleges are government agencies.

/johnny

19 posted on 09/19/2013 3:56:25 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Fledermaus
That's the way to do it. Ignore stupid laws. Make them fight for it.

/johnny

20 posted on 09/19/2013 3:58:41 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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