http://burneylawfirm.com/blog/2009/05/11/nat-hentoff-wrong-on-rights-say-it-aint-so/ Irreverent and insightful observations on criminal law Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://burneylawfirm.com/blog/2009/05/11/nat-hentoff-wrong-on-rights-say-it-aint-so/comment-page-1/#comment-37306 martin gugino Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:45:42 +0000 http://burneylawfirm.com/blog/2009/05/11/nat-hentoff-wrong-on-rights-say-it-aint-so/#comment-37306 You say "Off campus, America simply is not a place where the ASBO could exist. ", which confuses me. I thought that the second clause of the first amendment, which I take to mean the freedom to discuss by sound or symbol (symbol = the alphabet, mostly), was about the same as Academic Freedom for the whole country, as far as the government was concerned. Others, of course, could try to repress dissent. But you start the sentence with "Off campus", as if on campus, one needs to be politically correct, and so Academic Freedom is not a good model for the first amendment. You say “Off campus, America simply is not a place where the ASBO could exist. “, which confuses me. I thought that the second clause of the first amendment, which I take to mean the freedom to discuss by sound or symbol (symbol = the alphabet, mostly), was about the same as Academic Freedom for the whole country, as far as the government was concerned. Others, of course, could try to repress dissent.
But you start the sentence with “Off campus”, as if on campus, one needs to be politically correct, and so Academic Freedom is not a good model for the first amendment.
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