At Columbia Free Speech Only For Some

A small group of protesters gather outside Columbia University on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007 to protest plans for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus (AP Photo/John Smock)

Columbia President Lee Bollinger said it was a question of free speech and academic freedom, he was speaking of the invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the University of Columbia.

But how soon we forget in the fall of 1998 then Columbia University President George Rupp wasn’t so interested in free speech and the chance to hear the other side. And who was the voice that Columbia University was attempting to silence, the Conservative voice that's whose. The voice of Conservativism in America!

No Place at the Table In November of 1998, Columbia University President George Rupp dispatched a team of security guards to keep students interested in a conservative conference from meeting on campus. Participants in Accuracy in Academia's "A Place at the Table: Conservative Ideas in Higher Education" learned that only liberals have a place at Columbia's table when their meeting was kicked off-campus and forced to reconvene in a park.

This, despite the fact that a contract had been signed, the meeting space had been paid for, and the event had been planned three months in advance. A mob of activists protested the event, which featured Ward Connerly, and shouted down author Dinesh D'Souza as he attempted to speak in an alcove overlooking Morningside Park.

Chanting "Ha! Ha! You're Outside, We Don't Want Your Racist Lies," demonstrators held up signs bragging of their accomplishment, which read ACCESS DENIED and WE WIN: RACISTS NOT ALLOWED AT COLUMBIA. "This is an alcove where homeless people sleep and piss," student Franklin Amoo stated. "I'll do whatever needs to be done [to stop the conference] in order to make sure they know their sentiments are not shared."

Salmon Rushdie, Khalid Muhammed, and Angela Davis have all spoken on the New York campus without "security" concerns trumping free speech rights. Yet the only instance of a conservative event on the campus in recent memory elicits a ban handed down by the school's president, who happens to be an outspoken advocate of racial preferences.

Conservatives were banned from Columbia University and forced to speech at a near by park. As you liberals gather to hear Ahmadinejab’s lies remember it was you who once bragged;

ACCESS DENIED and WE WIN: RACISTS NOT ALLOWED AT COLUMBIA

Regarding Conservatives who are Americans, yet you let the President of Iran who supports the killing of U.S. soldiers, his country’s weapons have been recently found in Iraq. His country has been discovered recently as training terrorist to kill American Soldiers in Iraq and he has personally called for the destruction of Jews.

Yes I guess Columbia President Lee Bollinger was right you would invite Hitler to speak if you could even he deserves free speech the only group that is not deserving of free speech on the campus of Columbia University are Conservatives.

More Liberal hate and now I understand why Columbia invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They’ve got something in common just like him Columbia hates America too!

Democrats Reintroduce Legislation Meant to Deny Constitutional Speech

U.S. Congressman John Conyers

In France they have hate speech laws. In America Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has reintroduced hate speech legislation now that Democrats have been unleashed and control the agenda in the Congress.

You remember the Muhammad Cartoon riots? PHILIPPE VAL, editor of Charlie Hebdo a France newspaper published those cartoons and because of Frances hate speech law Val faces imprisonment for six months and a fine of thousands of euros if he is found guilty of hate speech violations against Muslims.

You might be wondering what about freedom of the press, or what about freedom of speech. Wrong country those freedoms are particular to America or at least they are for now. You see if the Democrats and John Conyers backed by homosexual activist have their way anyone who says anything outside of the politically correct accepted views regarding homosexuality will face court sanctions resulting in jail time and fines just like Philippe Val faces today.

What did you think the Ann Coulter row was all about? It was about controlling the free expression of words and ideas. If Ms. Coulter can be silenced or made to restrict her choice of words to appease influential government lobbying groups as homosexual activists no one will be safe from these oppressive word and thought police who disguise their Draconian legislation as if it were some sort of helpful anti-hate speech policy.

Democrats intend to control speech, thought and behavior by their effort to place the John Conyers backed bill into law in the United States similar to the way that speech is controlled in Europe.

Of course the homosexual lobby will trot out all of the false arguments. Ones like this law is needed to prevent hate crime against homosexuals, hate speech results in violence against homosexuals and they will attempt to argue that there is an unrelenting and under-addressed problem of violent hate crimes committed against homosexuals none of this is true, however the only way to persuade the public and manipulate public opinion is to create images of hateful violence against homosexuals where there is none.

That way no matter how Draconian or how unconstitutional the law that Representative Conyers and the homosexual lobby proposes people will allow it because they have been deceived into believing that allowing Democrats to strip away constitutional rights of freedom of speech is somehow justified because of falsified threats of violence against homosexuals.

One thing that is for certain whether in Europe or America socialist Liberals in power will always use the law to oppress people.

Philippe Val will learn his fate today. He printed cartoons that depicted violence being perpetrated in the name of Islam. Those who practice political correctness in France are persecuting Mr. Val a journalist that was doing his job of freely publishing the truth. In a complete miscarriage of justice Mr. Val is being labeled a criminal that engaged in acts of hate speech.

If Representative John Conyers, the Democrat party, left-wing Liberals and homosexual activist have their way anyone who disagrees with them about homosexuality will be like Philippe Val, on trial for hate speech in America. A country, ironically, that does have constitutional guarantees of freedom of press and freedom of speech.

Just think we’ll finally be like Europe, something to look forward to right?