{"id":244,"date":"2014-03-22T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T23:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=244"},"modified":"2014-03-22T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T23:24:50","slug":"free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Free speech for me, but not for thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee\/\" data-text=\"Free speech for me, but not for thee\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countyofsb.org\/da\/msm_county\/documents\/MireilleMillerYoung.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">UCSB professor assaults pro-life activists in University&#8217;s Free Speech Area resulting in misdemeanor charges.<\/a>\u00a0How tolerant.<\/p>\n<p>Full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/03\/20\/uc-santa-barbara-professor-steals-young-anti-abortion-protesters-sign-apparently-assaults-protesters-says-she-set-a-good-example-for-her-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but the short version is that on this past March 4th, some members of a pro-life group called Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust (hereafter referred to as &#8220;survivors&#8221;) were at The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) at what I guess you&#8217;d call a &#8220;protest&#8221;. \u00a0There were a few of them staked out in the quad area of the campus known as &#8220;The Arbor&#8221; handing out literature and holding graphic pictures showing the effects of late term abortions. \u00a0You know what I mean, dead babies. \u00a0A UCSB professor named Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist studies) came along and was incensed. \u00a0First a heated verbal exchange began between the professor and some students, and the survivors. \u00a0Miller-Young then ripped one of the signs out of a survivor&#8217;s hands and ran off with it. \u00a0Two of the survivors, sisters Joan and Thrin Short, followed after her trying to get their sign back while recording video on a smartphone. \u00a0In the struggle for the sign and as one of the students tride to take the smartphone from Thrin the altercation got physical. \u00a0The professor and the few students she was accompanied by got in an elevator with the sign which was later found in the professor&#8217;s office destroyed. \u00a0The UCSB Police investigated and later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countyofsb.org\/da\/msm_county\/documents\/MireilleMillerYoung.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">determined that Miller-Young had broken the law.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?attachment_id=247\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-247\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-247\" alt=\"You Need To Hear This\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/orwell-free-speech-quote-212x300.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/orwell-free-speech-quote-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/orwell-free-speech-quote-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/orwell-free-speech-quote-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/orwell-free-speech-quote.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will say up front that I am pro-life and so I am pre-disposed to being sympathetic to the pro-life side here, but that is not my point. \u00a0If you believe in Free Speech then you believe that the people you disagree with have the right to express their opinions. \u00a0I find it ironic that on a University of California campus where are offered courses of study in all manner of nonsense (i.e. pornography, sex work, feminist &amp; queer theory) in the name of academic freedom that\u00a0the exercise of free speech is not welcome\u00a0in a so-called free speech area. \u00a0How tolerant of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet UCSB professor assaults pro-life activists in University&#8217;s Free Speech Area resulting in misdemeanor charges.\u00a0How tolerant. 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