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Sacramento City College Crushes Student's Free Speech
By Warner Todd Huston | 10/29/09 | 05:08 PM EDT | 4 Comments
**UDPATE** 11/9/09
For Constitution Day this year at Sacramento City College Associated Student Government (ASG) President and student Steve Macias arranged for a group named Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion group, to participate on campus in the Constitution Day activities.
The group was approved for participation by the ASG and set up its booth at the appointed time. And then the world came to an end. Pro-Infanticide groups such as Planned Parenthood set up their own, countering booths the next day and left-wing hatemongers in the student body immediately began to circulate a recall petition to have Mr. Macias removed from the Associated Student Government leadership.
There is also some speculation that this insane, un-American recall effort being visited upon Mr. Macias is being tacitly approved of by the College adviser overseeing the ASG.
Even the local press tried to pile onto an attack of Mr. Macias. The SacCity Express originally reported on October 13 that Macias presented the anti-abortion group under a false name when he submitted the group for the vote of the ASG board. On the 26th the paper printed a retraction admitting their "mistake."
On his FaceBook site, Mr. Macias also reports that one of Sacramento College's professors has engaged in a nasty email exchange with the student, too. "Why Do these teachers feel that it is there role to put us students down?" Macias asks. "I am deeply offended that an instutution that taxpayers pay for and pay to attend would allow this individual to clearly descriminate against people of faith. Calling Christianity 'make believe.' is unacceptable dialougue from Teacher to student. Especially when you seek out and attack the student."
Amusingly, with her quote on the matter, ASG Vice President Debbie Dixon proved that her parent's money is being sorrowfully wasted on her failed education.
“I am highly offended, I have rights, just as they have rights to not be offended!”
Sorry Debbie, dear, but there is NO "right" not to be offended. The Constitution safeguards political free speech but it does not safeguard your right "not to be offended." No one has a right not to be offended because such a right would preclude everyone else's right to free speech in the first place. After all, what one person feels is right and good to say someone else somewhere will find offense contained therein. So, dear, dear, lil' Debbie, no one has a right not to be offended. But, I do have to say, I am offended by your ignorance.
So, what we see with this dispiriting case is typical of the distempered left. All these caring, civilized, open minded, more tolerant lefties are in full attack mode trying to shut down the free speech of people with whom they disagree... as always. Sadly, that's the fascist, Obamaesque sort of actions we are coming to expect from the extreme left and the bubble ensconced, pointy-headed, ivory tower dwellers in academe, isn't it?
**UDPATE** 11/9/09
College launches attack campaign on student body president over pro-life group’s display
ADF letter: student officer was simply respecting group’s constitutional rights
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom have issued a cease-and-desist letter to Sacramento City College officials after the president of the Associated Student Government was subjected to an illegal recall election for refusing to censor a pro-life group on campus.
College officials targeted Steve Macias for retaliation after they attempted to censor the speech of an off-campus pro-life group that ASG had already voted to allow to participate in a campus event. Macias refused to censor the pro-life display on the grounds that doing so would violate the group’s First Amendment rights. The officials and ASG retaliated by subjecting him to an illegal recall election.
Full news release, quotes, and related media resources available at the following link:
http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/3397
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
TAGS: Sacramento, Education, Free Speech, 1st Amendment, Abortion
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Warner,
Good Post. I have one comment that I think is very important to the way we win or lose debates in the public arena: For far too long now we have sheepishly allowed the left to frame debates by THEIR choice of titles.
For example, those of us who are against the murdering of an innocent, unborn child are PRO- LIFE and we should always refer to ourselves that way; not let the other side call us "anti-abortion." PRO-LIFE defines us not only as looking out for the unborn, but also looking out for the life of the woman carrying the baby. Those who have been through abortions know how it also kills a woman on the inside because what she is doing is instinctively wrong.
The ANTI-CHOICE (there's no choice for the baby) or, PRO-ABORTION (abortion meaning to "cut short" or "terminate early") crowd is mostly fuled and fanned into action by the abortion mill, Planned Parenthood - and we should always preface them that way - an abortion mill. We should also always define and remind readers what abortion means using examples such as, "There was a two-car crash on the freeway today. Tragically, three lives were aborted..." Or, "A bank robber shot and abortted two incocent bystanders while fleeing the scene..."
Get my drift? Let's start taking back the debate right here with your blog posting. We have got to stand up; roll up our sleeves; and say enough is enough with the extreme bullying the left tries to use to intimidate good people into silence. Let's fight back and fight hard starting with US defining what we stand for and what they stand for by using plain English to educate the observer and expose the truth.
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|I am on board with that one, for sure. Thanks
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|....what you see at the local level is being played out at the national level. Wit the downsizing of the Office of the President by singling out Fox as being a "talk show" format, for instance. Not to mention the federal shield law, which includes Pelosi’s Shut Up Rule, or the FTC’s new blogger rules – all elements of a systematic approach to stifle free speech.
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|Yikes. These Sac City students apparently couldn't write a proper sentence if their lives depended on it. I suppose that should be expected, since the primary mission of our community colleges is to take attendance for two years before promoting their wards to the CSU or UC. Perhaps, though, in student government, these students are getting a taste of the real world.
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