[MD] Free Speech

[Platt Holden]

> [Arlo]
> How can I explain something I had no part of. As I said, I'd support
> that fundamentalist Christian group in speaking in the same way I'd
> support a fundamentalist Muslim group in speaking. Personally, as I've
> said, they prove themselves to be moronic by speaking, making my
> criticism (of these religious ideologies) all the easier.

Has your college ever banned a group from campus?

> [Platt]
> And why armed guards are necessary when conservative speakers like Ann
> Coulter and David Horowitz arrive on campus to speak.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Armed guards were necessary when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke too,
> Platt. Its hardly only "liberals" who seek to censor oppositional
> speech.

At what college were armed guards necessary for King?

> [Platt]
> And why a group of students of Columbia felt free to attack a speaker
> representing minutemen who monitor illegals crossing our border. In
> other words, I don't believe your the views you express here coincide
> with those of your peers or reality.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Okay, I'll bite. Do you believe there should be any restrictions on who
> and how groups rally, either on or off campus? Would you support a
> neo-nazi, or communist, rally in your town square? (I mean support as in
> allowing it to legally occur). Should the American Marxist Organization
> hold a rally in downtown Plattsville, would you protest? Heckle? What?
> And let me be more specific, if you were the University President of
> Holden University, would there be _any_ group you would ban from campus?
> Finally, when the AMO holds a rally and is heckled by right-wing
> ideologues unable to see that they are supporting a system that is
> exploiting them, do you vocally condemn this? Or is it only when
> right-wing groups (whether the KKK or Miss Coulter) get heckled that it
> bothers you?

Nice try to change the subject. Does your college have a speech code?
Do you know colleges that do? Do you approve?