It's just freedom of speech, right?

Your right to free speech ends when you require me, at gunpoint, to pay for it. Government has NO business in education.

Update: The anti-American bastard is no longer taking my money. Good riddance.

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Once again, we see the same claims of free speech being screamed while tax dollars are being used to support the enemy and to encourage sedition. Yet again there's a college "teacher" who is being paid with my tax dollars and he wants all American troops to murder other American troops.

See, this is yet ANOTHER reason that government shouldn't be involved in education. This is MY tax dollars at work. Yes, you have the right to freedom of speech, but you do NOT have the right to have me PAY YOU for a platform for your freedom of speech.

And if government got out of the education business altogether, this would NOT be an issue at all.

(Linked to Stop the ACLU Open Trackbacks).

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Some people continue to point out the obvious, that state-run institutions of "higher education" are crammed full of super-ultra-liberals who support communism, socialism, and various other philosophies that abhor freedom, capitalism, and Christianity.

And if you point out those facts, YOU are the one bringing politics into the classroom, according to Judith Wegner, not surprisingly, the chairwoman of the faculty at UNC with a clear vested interest in keeping herself and her friends in place, no matter how much they might hate freedom and America.

She is defending people like UNC English lecturer Elyse Crystall who emailed all her students in her classes to attack one of her students who didn't think gays should be celebrated and have special rights -- no free speech for you in Elyse Crystall's classes.

She defends people like Steven E. Jones from BYU, loony extraordinaire, who thinks that there were no Muslims or terrorists involved in the 9-11 attack on America.

Other, more sane people, want there to be some balance. They don't want people hired to higher education positions based on their politics -- but people like Judith Wegner do not like the idea that people can be free, so she supports continuing the policy of specifically hiring only those who have the correct political beliefs.

A bill was introduced in the NC Legislature last year to give students the actual right to disagree with professors -- and the Democrats promptly crushed it to ensure that no freedom of speech, nor even thought, would be allowed in the schools of North Carolina.

Explain to me again why government needs to be involved in education at all? The entire state university funding system should be completely shut down. Let private industry handle education -- they can do everything else better than government -- and then this would not be an issue, nor a HUGE financial expenditure.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also well-known as the Berkley of the East, has revealed that slavery existed in the United States in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Apparently no one knew about that before today.

"This university was built by slaves and free blacks," said Chancellor James Moeser. "We need to be candid about that, acknowledge their contributions."

Far down in the news story, we find out the real purpose for this:

Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree. But he believes those found to have had links to slavery should pay reparations.

Once again, it is NOT charity; it is NOT good, nice, or honorable, to TAKE money from one person and GIVE it to another. Explain to me again why in the hell education can only exist with government running it? Oh yeah, because people who were accountable wouldn't consider such moronic ideas.

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