No Free Speech for You! – Don Feder shouted down at UMass
Thursday, March 12th, 2009by Christina Miller
To give you an idea of exactly how liberal the University of Massachusetts is, near the Amherst campus a UN flag flies in front of the town hall. The American flag is relegated to a corner in town center.
With that tidbit of information, you won’t be surprised to learn that Don Feder, a conservative writer and speaker, could not finish his speech at UMass due to liberal protests. Campus police refused to let the protestors in, but they still did their best to shut down the speech.
Two students said they were protesting the speech because Feder isn’t open-minded enough, and the purpose of college is to be open-minded. However, in typical college liberal fashion, these disgruntled students couldn’t open their own minds enough to actually listen to Feder’s speech.
After several interruptions, the event was canceled.
The UMass Republican Club was trying to fulfill the highest mission of the university, which is presenting a forum for the consideration of ideas. And at UMass it would seem the liberals agree with this mission—provided they like what is being said.
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subscribe comments feedb.j. Benbow
March 17th, 2009
The Humanist have opened their minds and replaced serious thought and common sense with nonsense and disdain for truth..
Keep up the good work – I hope you will soon be right up there with Ann Coulter -
she stays thin hauling her money to the vault!!
Israel
March 17th, 2009
Good repost Christina. Liberty will come to college campuses once we restore liberty to our educational system with parental choice in education at the K-12 level.
Christina TM
March 17th, 2009
b.j. Benbow,
You are right on about humanism. And I’m quite flattered by your comparison of me to Ann Coulter–from your keyboard to God’s ears!
YW
March 21st, 2009
Examples of fascism by action of the autocratic left abound.
Double standards are found acceptable when they propel the goal of all-powerful government, even with misguided good intention.
The interjection of true philosophical freedom onto campuses is utterly crucial to our continued liberty and people like you will be the primary source of these needed reforms.
Keep up the cause, stay the course.