Walter Williams: Liberty is under attack by elitists on college campuses
[font color=green]I usually refrain from posting columns by conservative hacks, but since it is a relatively slow news day and we have discussed the Eliott Rodgers shooting to death (I know, bad pun too soon), I thought I would post a thread that should unite nearly all DUers.
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From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation.
Basic to their agenda are the tools of indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once they gain power, as leftists have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses.
Back in 1964, it was Mario Savio, a campus leftist, who led the free speech movement at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, a movement that played a vital role in placing American universities center stage in the flow of political ideas, no matter how controversial, unpatriotic and vulgar.
The free speech movement gave birth to the hippie movement of the ’60s and ’70s. The longhaired, unkempt hippies of that era have grown up and now often find themselves being college professors, deans, provosts and presidents. Their intolerance of free speech and other ideas has become policy and practice on many college campuses.
More at http://lubbockonline.com/editorial-columnists/2014-05-25/williams-liberty-under-attack-elitists-college-campuses#comment-334706 .
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I knew he wasn't going to get better. 
