Concodia case suggests censuring not censoring
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Posted by John Furedy on 17:04:53 2006/06/16
In Reply to:
Re: Letter to Solberg, Day, Harper - Smarten up! posted by Stephen
Stephen,
I noticed in your letter that you referred to the Concordia case, and the Liberal governments asymmterical handling of pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian speakers.
However, as I spelled out in http://www.safs.ca/jan2005/furedy.html, in that case it was the university administrtion itself that was at fault, for not protecting both sets of speakers from violence and hence allowing both to be censured, and instead cowardly censoring only the pro-Israel speakers.
The same applies, as I've suggested before, to this disgusting but important individual, especially as it now looks as if he will be allowed him. Censure him by going to the meetings, and picking on particularly choice assertions that can be ridiculed. The idea of "protecting young impressionable minds" by preventing a speaker who they wish to hear never works, as that speaker just becomes forbidden fruit, and the free society moves toward the fear and of the free-fear continuum.
All the best, John
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