Free Speech Tag

Accusations Fly Over Cancellation of “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 24, 2017 15 Comments

By now, you may have heard that a n event at UC Berkeley called "Free Speech Week" which was set to feature Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter and Steve Bannon has been cancelled. All we really know at this point is that the school didn't cancel the event, it was the student group which was hosting it. NBC News reports:

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Study: 44% Of College Students Think “Hate Speech” Is Not Protected Speech

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on September 20, 2017 23 Comments

I used to be puzzled by patently- and provably-untrue statements made by prominent Democrats. For example, former Democrat governor, presidential hopeful, and DNC chairman and current "Democrat consultant" Howard Dean stirred controversy earlier this year with his insistence that "hate speech" is not protected by the First Amendment. I wrote about this a few months ago, noting that restricting Americans' First Amendment rights is a key goal of the left.

One of the fondest dreams of the radical (and not-so radical) left is to undermine the First Amendment and ultimately to control speech. Democrats have advocated the DOJ’s investigation and even prosecution of climate “skeptics,” condemned “hate” speech formally in the House, supported the criminalization and ban of “hate” speech, and as we see play out on college campuses across the nation, resorted to violence as a response to speech with which they disagree.

Two days ago black-clad Antifa thugs beat people in Berkeley as police mostly stood on the sidelines, as we documented in Journalist amid Antifa Berkeley Riots: “Police have completely disappeared … People getting beaten up”. ABC News reported that police were ordered not to intervene:

Berkeley Police Chief Andrew Greenwood said officers were told not to actively confront the anarchists. He applauded officers' restraint, saying it forestalled greater violence.

Berkeley Mayor Jesse Areguin, while criticizind the Antifa violence, approved of the police stepping back and effectively ceding the streets: