What better evidence is there today
that America has morphed into a statist police state than this example of a California
college which actually bars
its own students from exercising free speech on campus, including handing out free
copies of the United States Constitution?
That’s right. On September 17,
2013 – Constitution Day in America – a student interested in starting an
organization called Young Americans for Liberty at Modesto Junior College was accosted
by the campus police for the “crime” of peaceably passing out pocket-size
pamphlets of the Constitution to fellow students.
The cop escorted 25-year-old student
Robert Van Tuinen to a school administrative office where an official showed him
a binder with “rules governing free speech” on campus. He was admonished
that that there is only one small designated place “in front of the student
center, in that little
cement area,” where free expression is allowed, but that two people
are already using it.
“You’d have to wait,” croaked the statist. “You could go on (Sept.) 20th, the 27th or you
can go into October.” Then he was advised to make an appointment with the vice
president of student services for further explanation of the “rules.”
"It was a tense situation," recalls Van Tuinen. "To be told I can't do something as basic
as handing out the Constitution was frustrating."
“Watching the video [that Van Tuinen recorded of the entire incident] is
a combination of depressing and nauseating, to see what rigmarole students have
to go through just to express themselves on campus,” declared Robert
Shibley, senior vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in
Education (FIRE), which has taken on campus speech codes around the nation.
“They [the rules] are imposed in an attempt to sanitize
the public space of anything that might offend somebody.” Shibley added.
“The fact is, no school specifically needs a speech code. They have the ability
keep order on campus. Of people are too loud, harassing people, or blocking
traffic they have the means to address that.”
This sad story just makes me wonder out load about to
what part of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights which guarantees free
speech do these statist college campus administrative officials not understand.
The government “shall make no law … abridging the
freedom of speech,” period. No law literally means no law; no rule; no prohibition;
no abridgment; no infringement; no exception; no nothing.
No means no!
But in a police state, like we have in California and
the rest of America today, no means no constitutional rights because the:
US Constitution is illegal in Modesto.
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