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Bullshit. It’s a commentary, just like putting them up. Free speech. Just because they own the property, doesn’t mean they dictate how they are displayed. As long as their property isn’t damaged.
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Nope. Firstly, it’s up to the property owners, in this case the university, to decide how its property is to be used for advocacy purposes. Secondly, there is a moral, if not a legal, distinction between advocating a particular point of view and preventing someone else from advocating his point of view.
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen]
Bullshit. It’s a commentary, just like putting them up. Free speech. Just because they own the property, doesn’t mean they dictate how they are displayed. As long as their property isn’t damaged.
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Of course, it was damaged - see the picture of the professor terring up a sign?
If the pro-lifers hadn’t had a permit, I’d imagine it likely that Campus Police would’ve removed the crosses and signs prior to the pro-choicers getting to them.
I took it as implied from the linkled story in the OP that, because the display was up for the vandals to do the deed, a display permit of some kind had been secured.
And just so my comments aren’t considered a “drive-by smearing” – the whole protest was misnamed… Cemetary of the Innocents? What about original sin? :smack:
When demonstrators outside President Bush’s Crawford ranch planted about 2,000 crosses along the road to the president’ driveway, somebody ran them down with a truck. I thought that was pretty rude, but it wasn’t unconstitutional.
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I certainly hope the vandals are held accountable. Poking 400 holes in a campud lawn is pretty extensive vandalism, so I hope those anti-choicers are prepared to accept the consequences.
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You’ll never get a woman pregnant, nor will you ever be pregnant, so you have no moral superiority on this issue as it will never affect you. Much like you feel I have no valid opinion about gays in any regard. (Even when I try to hammer through your thick skull that I agree with you.)
In your e-mail to me you’ve made it very clear you’re a hetero-phobe. (In a zero-sum game, if someone can hate gays, someone can hate straights.)
Why should the “anti-choice” feel bad for spotlighting a “pro-abortion” folly? And why the fuck should we think anything you post on the subject be a valid position on the subject? It doesn’t affect you. Much as gay marriage (that I’ve repeatedly stated isn’t an issue to me), doesn’t affect me.
All of this is for naught, as I’m an evil prick controlling the World Order keeping you down.
Fuck. Mexicans, gays, Jews. blacks. My resources are growing thin. I need some time off from work just to keep up my oppression of you scum. :rolleyes:
That or I’ll re-enroll in the Campud. And pull it until I have the perfect answer.
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When demonstrators outside President Bush’s Crawford ranch planted about 2,000 crosses along the road to the president’ driveway, somebody ran them down with a truck. I thought that was pretty rude, but it wasn’t unconstitutional.
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Anyway, the president has put that professor on leave for the rest of the term. Jacobsen also taped a public apology ro be aired on local TV. It does not appear that she is not fighting her leave. Now if the goddamn AAUP would just stay out of it and not make asses of themselves taking up her cause, this story can die a timely death.
Shame on her, there are others ways to make a point that don’t involve destruction of property and impinging on the right to free speech.
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: I’d just have put up an alternative display of crosses for the hundreds of thousands of women worldwide who die from unsafe abortion and from complications following unwanted pregnancy. Many of those women die because they don’t have access to safe contraception or medical care. The Global Gag Rule has only compounded the problem.
Personally, I’d find a field of crosses where each one represented a dead woman, a motherless family and a widowed husband much more poignant than a field of crosses where each one represented a dead foetus.