Morons "Don't Get" Free Speech
Here's an interesting contrast in stories.
The first one is about a college student expelled for writing a paper promoting corporal punishment in schools. Scott McConnell was studying for his Master's of Education and wrote the paper for a course on classroom management.
Colleges were once places of free inquiry, where conflicting opinions were discussed and debated. But the same shrill "defenders" of such rights as the one to pull a near-term baby from the womb and kill it with scissors to the back of the head think that even mentioning spanking an unruly grade-school student warrants expulsion. What a world we've made for ourselves.
But in the meantime, expect those same shrill demons to launch demonstrations if the good folk in this story succeed in preventing a murdered from speaking in City Hall. Imari Obadele was the leader of a black terrorist organization that killed Jackson, Miss., police officer William Louis Skinner, who was part of a force serving an arrest warrant at a house the group was holed up in.
Mr. Obadele has served his far-too-short sentence, and should have the right to speak his mind. But the numbskulls on the left believe the right to freedom of speech means the right to a forum, which is absolutely not the case. Jackson Councilman Kenneth Stokes no doubt believes he's doing right by inviting the murderer to speak in Jackson's City Hall, but that just means Stokes's mother didn't bring him up right. Proper manners would dictate deference to a murdered police officer's survivors, not to the man who murdered him. But then, proper manners aren't exactly a high priority for those who see spanking as evil, but murdering police officers as noble.
The first one is about a college student expelled for writing a paper promoting corporal punishment in schools. Scott McConnell was studying for his Master's of Education and wrote the paper for a course on classroom management.
Colleges were once places of free inquiry, where conflicting opinions were discussed and debated. But the same shrill "defenders" of such rights as the one to pull a near-term baby from the womb and kill it with scissors to the back of the head think that even mentioning spanking an unruly grade-school student warrants expulsion. What a world we've made for ourselves.
But in the meantime, expect those same shrill demons to launch demonstrations if the good folk in this story succeed in preventing a murdered from speaking in City Hall. Imari Obadele was the leader of a black terrorist organization that killed Jackson, Miss., police officer William Louis Skinner, who was part of a force serving an arrest warrant at a house the group was holed up in.
Mr. Obadele has served his far-too-short sentence, and should have the right to speak his mind. But the numbskulls on the left believe the right to freedom of speech means the right to a forum, which is absolutely not the case. Jackson Councilman Kenneth Stokes no doubt believes he's doing right by inviting the murderer to speak in Jackson's City Hall, but that just means Stokes's mother didn't bring him up right. Proper manners would dictate deference to a murdered police officer's survivors, not to the man who murdered him. But then, proper manners aren't exactly a high priority for those who see spanking as evil, but murdering police officers as noble.
posted by Steady Earl at 9:10 AM
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