Michigan State U. sued after rejecting speech by Dick Spencer

Richard Spencer
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Michigan State University (Go Spartans!) is being sued after it allegedly denied a request to rent space on campus for white nationalist Dick Spencer to speak in late September.

Cameron Padgett, a student at Georgia State University, attempted to rent a conference room at the on-campus Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, (named in honor of the Rice Krispies trio, Snap, Crackle and Pop, who were found floating, dead, in a bowl of cereal back in 1957). 

Padgett sued Michigan State U. alleging the school is violating Spencer's free, if not disgusting, speech. 

Dick Spencer was scheduled to take place on August 12th.

MSU had announced in August that it would unconstitutionally deny the group space, although MSU apparently couldn't pronounce the word 'unconstitutionally,' or it simply didn't matter to them. 

Michigan officials said in a statement at the time the rental request was made that the decision to deny the rental space was "due to significant concerns about public safety." It mentioned the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia as their excuse. Heather Heyer was killed there by a car driven into the crowd of people counter-protesting the white supremacist rally. 

In other words, Michigan State was using a 'violence veto' of free speech rather than ensuring for it.

Spencer, in a message to the Associated Press on Sunday praised Padgett as a "brave young man who has my full support."

If Padgett was black, brown or a Jew, I suspect he would not have Spencer's "full support." Richard Spencer (not to be confused with the Islamic scholar and anti-Islamization of the West, Robert Spencer) is a scumquat. But even scumquats have the right to free speech by the First Amendment. 

It is the responsibility of law enforcement to, well, enforce the laws. And it is unlawful to deny someone their right of expression, unless that right calls for violence or incites a riot. 

The fact that MSU had the extremely controversial speaker, Milo Yiannopolous speak on campus last December, should attest to their selective fear of violence.

As much as I detest Richard Spencer, I love and respect our Constitution and he absolutely has the right to verbalize his bull crap and hatred, and MSU or Antifa has no right to stop him.

Because if they can stop his free speech, then whose will be next?


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