Posted on 04/15/2006 5:17:19 PM PDT by rhema
Highland Heights, KY -- A Northern Kentucky University professor who destroyed a pro-life display against abortion and encouraged her students to vandalize it as well is defending her actions. Dr. Sally Jacobsen, a British literature professor, called the display "silly" and said her free speech rights allowed her and others to trash the display. As LifeNews.com reported on Thursday, Jacobson and several students from her class vandalized a pro-life display of hundreds of crosses that the campus pro-life group had set up earlier in the week.
The professor and her students were caught on camera and seen by other witnesses trashing the pro-life display.
Jacobson admitted to the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper that she and nine of her students engaged in the vandalism.
"I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Jacobsen said.
She told the newspaper she had "no comment" as to whether she was involved, but a reporter form the NKU student newspaper caught Dr. Jacobson on camera.
Jacobson told the Enquirer she was upset by the pro-life display which she labeled a "slap in the face" to women who might be considering "the agonizing and very private decision to have an abortion."
The professor claimed it wasn't clear who put up the cross display, but members of Northern Right to Life, the campus pro-life group, received permission from the school to use the lawn outside the campus center for it.
After Dr. Jacobson and NKU students destroyed the display, members of the group decided put new crosses up in their place and camp out overnight on Thursday to make sure they weren't vandalized again.
The student group also told The Northerner student newspaper it plans to press charges with local police.
"We called the police and told them that we decided to press charges," Julie Broering, treasurer for the group, said. The decision came after members of the pro-life club held a day-long meeting and vote.
David Tobergte, an administrative sergeant with the University Police said those involved could face felony theft charges and any students could also face university sanctions regarding the incident.
Related web sites: Northern Kentucky University
Someone used some "free speech" on my car a few years back ($1,000 damage due to the left side of my car getting keyed)... Not sure if it was the "W" sticker or my Texas A&M University "Association of Former Students" sticker.
Anyway, I catch somebodies doing that again... they'd be on the receiving end of some "NY Justice" metted out by me!
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Nope, only "liberals" rights of "free speech"
allow vandalism. Watch them quack duck-speak
to say just that.
Ayn Rand said 35 years ago that this was basically the goal of the Left, and one of the means by which they'd attempt to implement it. I remember her essay on the Free Speech Movement in 1969 or so.
You've got to love these people, don't you?
I am very much amused by someone who ponders why others cannot contain their political/religious opinions while posting their own political opinions on a forum. Someday they might even realize the irony of their own post. I'm always optimistic.
That's a Man Baby...
Liberals live in a 1984 world.
Press charges, fire, and expell.
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Because a pro-abortion attitude is decidedly non-feminine.
There are now people on that board comparing this professor's actions to that of Gandhi.
There are now people on that board comparing this professor's actions to that of Gandhi.
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That's not possible. Gandhi wouldn't do something like that, he might snag his dhoti on the crosses.
No surprise at all that the members of the Board support this type of activity given the topic.
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