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Title: Michigan College Arrests Kids for Handing Out Constitutions, Whines About Being ‘Vilified’ When Students Sue
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Reason
URL Source: http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/ ... ollege-arrests-kids-for-handin
Published: Jun 29, 2017
Author: Lindsay Marchello
Post Date: 2017-07-02 11:50:25 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 2183
Comments: 8
Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) members were passing out pocket-sized copies of the U.S. Constitution to fellow students at Kellogg Community College (KCC) in Michigan when college officials approached them and ordered them to stop. When the members refused—arguing that the First Amendment protected their actions—they were arrested for violating the school's policies. The charges were dropped 10 days later, but KCC students and YAL members Michelle Gregoire and Brandon Withers, along with the rest of the KCC YAL chapter, sued the community college, the Board of Trustees, and a few other administrators for violating their First Amendment rights, as Reason reported earlier this year. Now the administration is claiming that they are the real victims and have been unfairly vilified by the YAL lawsuit. "Despite repeated public statements that the College does not take into consideration the content of speech or solicitation when granting access to campus, the YAL [chapter] and its supporters have vilified the College by spreading false information about why individuals were arrested on Sept. 20 and by suggesting that KCC does not value the U.S. Constitution or the free speech rights of its students," KCC spokesman Eric Greene said in a press release, "These accusations couldn't be further from the truth." The community college claims that the YAL members could have gone on about their business had they just filed some paperwork and acquired a permit, but it is that exact policy the lawsuit argues is unconstitutional. "Through the permitting process, KCC retains unfettered discretion to determine both whether students may speak at all and where they may speak," YAL's lawsuit reads. "These policies and practices chill protected student speech and disable spontaneous student speech on campus." Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a nonprofit legal organization that focuses on religious freedom, filed a brief last month in support of the plaintiffs and took issue with KCC's speech permit policy. They pointed out that the Student Life Office has the ability to modify or deny any student's request for a permit, and that there are no objective standards for officials to review the requests. "This policy requires that KCC officials examine the viewpoint of expression and censor such speech if it is perceived to be contrary to the College's mission," the brief reads. ADF argues that KCC's policy falls under viewpoint discrimination and violates students' First Amendment rights. Other schools, such as Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts and Los Angeles Pierce Community College, have also violated students' First Amendment rights by preventing students and YAL members from handing out pocket Constitutions. Those schools deserve to be "vilified" too. Don’t want to be portrayed as a villain? Stop restricting free speech.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Draft the little whiners & send their sorry little asses to Afghanistan... Then they'll have a legitimate gripe.
dieversiTy pc alqueda shariah jihad law of The jungle willie uugggghhh If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
Neither you nor your brother Boris gets to decide what's "legitimate" free speech. Then they'll have a legitimate gripe. Fuckin' A! Stalin knew what to do with 'em. Send 'em to Siberia, that'll freeze their peaches.
I bet if the kids had been passing out copies of Mein Kampf, Willie would be all for it. Shit, I'd be all for that. Pass out any written text you want to.
Agreed - I was merely commenting on Willie's leftit proclivities. I'm going to take back what I posted, a little bit anyway. I do think that there are texts that should be, or are, illegal to distribute. Texts promoting (real) crimes against persons for one. Texts promoting self-destruction for another. Charlie can probably give us a run-down on the limits of free speech in the law, if he's not too busy (being inscrutable or something).
#2. To: Willie gangGreen, fredbot, hondope, zulu, mau mau, hutus, lice, druids, morloks, 666ers (#1)
boris
#3. To: Willie Green, BorisY, jackbooted progressives (#1)
Then they'll have a legitimate gripe.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: Willie Green (#1)
Draft the little whiners & send their sorry little asses to Afghanistan...
#5. To: Anthem, Willie Green, hondo68 (#4)
Fuckin' A! Stalin knew what to do with 'em. Send 'em to Siberia, that'll freeze their peaches.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#6. To: Deckard (#5)
#7. To: Anthem (#6)
Shit, I'd be all for that. Pass out any written text you want to.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#8. To: Deckard, nolu chan (#7)
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