Canadian professor marches against himself.

[Benfea]

You gotta give this guy points for style as well as balls.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Law/2006/02/09/1433681-cp.html

A professor posts the offending cartoons for the express purpose of starting a debate about freedom of speech. When the inevitable march/protest happens, he slips in with the protestors and marches with them before confronting them in debate.

Awesome.

[varkam]

1. Big balls, yup.

I bet he gets his pants custom tailored.

[sandnsea]

2. Awesome???

What if he'd posted stuff to incite a pro-war march, would he be so awesome then?? This was stupid and irresponsible, people's lives are more important than cartoons.

[Benfea]

3. What difference does the topic make?

And how is this stupid and irresponsible? There was no violence, there was only debate as the professor intended.

[sandnsea]

4. Did you read what you posted???

The professor went and marched in the protest he instigated. There was alot of anger reported and the professor was told to remove the cartoons from his door. They barely kept the lid on the intense response, all because this idiot just had to "exercise his rights" and post this trash that even Bill Clinton said were "totally outrageous against Islam."

What would you think if a teacher posted some garbage against peace protestors in order to instigate a march against them?? I would suspect you would think he abused his authority for his own agenda.

[Benfea]

5. Get a grip.

Get off your "this offends Islam" high horse. Are you forgetting the founding principles of the ACLU? It is precisely the most offensive and unpopular speech that must be defended the most fiercely. Whether or not they were offensive or outrageous is completely beside the point, just as it was beside the point when we were talking about attempts by Christian conservatives in this country to limit free speech in response to the Piss Christ or "The Last Temptation of Christ."

[mdmc]

6. Awesome!

live free or die (at least 'the cartoonist' will share some of the blame)