Columbia's Freedom of Speech 101

On Wednesday, the College Republicans at Columbia University (who knew they existed!) hosted the Jim Gilchrist founder of the Minutemen Project to address the students at Columbia about their work securing our southern border with Mexico. Moments after the after he began speaking, a group of students bolted onto the stage with banners stating “Say No to Racism” and other such hyperbole (some of which were in Arabic).Tonight on Hannity and Colmes, two of the students who barged onto the stage were interviewed, besides for being obnoxious and disrespectful to both Hannity and Colmes, they completely exposed Columbia University for who they really are (not that it is a secret). One would think that after Edward Said and Columbia Unbecoming and now this fiasco, Columbia would attempt to instill a positive image of the University to the public. The students on H&C tonight were complete and utter fools. They admitted that Freedom of Speech and open debate on controversial issues are vital for society, especially on college campuses. These dumb fools lost any credibility for themselves when they started to justify their barging on stage which brought the event to a close. Furthermore, in their squeaky voices they kept saying to H&C “Are you going to let us speak about the horrors going on at the border or are you going to keep cutting us off,” does anyone say payback??? I have to say one thing to these bitches; don’t dish it, if you can’t take it. It was okay to stop someone else from speaking but not okay when someone wanted to stop them from speaking. Columbia has enough to be ashamed of and now they have two more reasons.This was gross negligence on the part of Columbia not to provide extra security for this event. Columbia knew quite well that this was going to hit a raw nerve with some people. After the attacks of Ann Coulter , David Horowitz and Bill Kristol on college campuses, NOTHING should have been permitted in that auditorium. (When Supreme Court Justice John Stevens spoke at my law school, we were not allowed to have even a pen in the auditorium.) Columbia's still reeling from Columbia Unbecoming wants to publicize a new and imporoved image of tolerance of opposing viewpoints, but doesn’t really want to practice it. Once again, Columbia University fails Freedom of Speech 101.


PS. Columbia only gets away with this because they are a private school. If this would be a public university the lawsuits against them would be endless and they would lose every single one of them.

UPDATE: 10.12.06
This just proves my point. Columbia has not changed and is not interested in changing. They have an agenda and they will not veer from their radical leftist path. Thanks M for the article!