Posted on 11/08/2018 1:14:16 PM PST by grayboots
The Kent State University chapter of a conservative advocacy group asked a federal judge to bar university officials from imposing security costs for an upcoming gun rights event set to be held in the student center.
Liberty Hangout, which was involved in a recent open-carry rally on Kent State’s campus that resulted in several arrests and confrontations between participants and protesters, claims officials are unconstitutionally trying to impose an estimated $1,800 fee for eight police officers and six security guards to be on hand for a Nov. 19 event called “Let’s Talk Gun Rights.”
The event is to feature Kaitlin Bennett, a Kent State alumna and conservative social media personality who has acted as a provocateur by doing things such as challenging David Hogg, the survivor of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida and a gun-control advocate, to an arm-wrestling match.
Liberty Hangout argues that the university is trying to stifle the school chapter’s free-speech rights by imposing security costs because of the group’s viewpoints, and that the university’s policies on security fees are unconstitutionally vague.
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a provocateur by doing things such as challenging David Hogg, the survivor of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida and a gun-control advocate, to an arm-wrestling match.
Oh my! Said Mr. Sulu.
It won’t be the gun rights advocates creating the turmoil; it will be their opponents. Bill them!
...but that’s the whole point; censorship through punitive fees. I’m willing to bet that these are not applied equally.
Kent has always been a liberal leaning bastion. I’m willing to bet that whenever some left leaning student organization has a march or gathering, there are no “fees”, although I don’t know this for a fact.
When something that the university faculty/bureaucracy as well as portions of the student body disagree with, they cause a commotion about it and then punish them with fees. It’s the agitators who stir up counter-protests who are the obvious security risk though. That doesn’t matter because it’s the censorship that is the goal.
Really now? A girl challenging a guy to an arm wrestling contest. Thats so unfair.
Maybe she’ll let Hogg use both arms.
Prior restraint?
They have to be protected from violent Democrats.
They have to be protected from violent Democrats.
David Hogg is not a survivor of the school shooting at Parkland, FL or anywhere else. He was not at school when the shooting happened. He was at home. The only thing he survived was the bike ride he took from his house to the school after the shooting was over. When he allows anyone to refer to him as a survivor without correcting them, he is a phony who loves the false embellishment.
Maybe we can file a FOIA request for the pertinent records.
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