Auburn pays $29,000 to end suit over white nationalist

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Source: Assoc. Press via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Auburn pays $29,000 to end suit over white nationalist

The Associated Press
9:05 a.m. Monday, May 15, 2017 Atlanta News
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
Auburn University's failed, one-day fight to prevent a white nationalist from speaking on campus will cost nearly $30,000 in legal fees under an agreement approved by a federal judge.

School officials said they agreed to pay $29,000 in legal fees "to avoid more costly litigation costs" stemming from the university's attempt to block Richard Spencer from speaking in a campus auditorium last month. ... A judge approved ending the suit on Friday, court records show.

The money will go to an attorney for Cameron Padgett, the Georgia man who filed suit to reverse the school's decision barring Spencer from speaking at Auburn.

Padgett, who called himself a libertarian interested in the free exchange of ideas, paid $700 to rent a room in the student union building for a talk by Spencer, a spokesman for the white nationalism movement whose appearances often draw critics.

Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/local/auburn-pays-000-end-suit-over-white-nationalist/ayzlQMUeaTFX5SSdkqNscK/

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Hat tip, Richard Spencer's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/richardbspencer

He retweeted this:

@AuburnU to pay nearly $30,000 to Georgia man who fought in court to bring @RichardBSpencer to campus last month.

Link to tweet

[Turbineguy]

1. This seems to be right out of the Al Qaeda playbook.

Make the cost of your victim's defense high.

[ck4829]

2. "Free exchange of ideas"? These are the kind of people who go on shooting sprees and then

nobody is interested in their ideas anymore, they're suddenly mentally ill lone wolves with no ideologies, mentors, or connections to anyone else apparently (if you listen to the media and politicians).

Take Richard Spencer for example, he really does seem like the person who will do a school shooting or he'll probably do it more localized by stabbing some random person dozens of times, I'm sure he's a serial killer if it's not building up into some Jason Dalton event... Second he does it or his little hobby is revealed, he's not a white nationalist anymore, it'll be all about him being mentally ill and ostracized from the community.