Ohio bill would stop conservative speech stopping

Universities and colleges are nearly universal in their leftist political views, indoctrinating young minds in progressive (aka regressive) thinking. If you want to pull an "A" from your professor, you better write like Marx and think like a Bolshevik. If you don't, you will be demoralized, scholastically disenfranchised, demonized, vilified, and be told or made to shut up.

In schools of "high learning" across the country, higher learning isn't the priority, it's recruiting for Antifa. We have seen it at Berkeley, the University at Buffalo, and many other schools that ought not to receive public funding.

Finally, there's a bill crafted by two Ohio Republican lawmakers that would stop universities from disinviting controversial speakers based on any potential negative reactions or protests the guests might trigger.

It's part of a Campus Free Speech Act that also aims to get rid of so-called free speech zones and allow for First Amendment activities across entire campuses.

The left typically hates free speech and will hate this bill because it eliminates safe zones where many a snowflake dwells, and it allows for the First Amendment to be utilized for its intended purpose: to protect all speech, including that which they don't like. 

It also promotes and protects intellectual diversity, which the left also hates. They only want one tune to be sung on campuses. 

Republican Reps. Wesley Goodman and Andrew Brenner announced the act on Tuesday at the Ohio statehouse.

This is not free speech

The act, which is expected to be introduced in the coming weeks, aims to prohibit administrators from taking action "that limits or chills the expression of any member of the campus community or their invited guests based on the content of the expression," Goodman said in a news release.

It prevents "heckler's vetoes" by "prohibiting universities from disinviting speakers based on the potential reaction, opposition, offense, or irritation taken to the speaker's expression."

Under this act, students will be able to bring a cause of action against the institution they believe infringes on their free speech rights.

So people like Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, and even Milo Yiannopoulos will be afforded their First Amendment rights, along with the students who want to hear what they have to say.



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Michigan lawmakers want to suspend or expel students who infringe on First Amendment

Perhaps the U.S. Constitution still counts for some people, particularly those of us who believe in freedom of speech. It's one thing to have a different opinion than another person, and it's okay to express that opinion, but it isn't okay to suppress the speech of that person either by rioting or in some way preventing that person from speaking, as happened to Ann Coulter at Berkeley recently.

In Michigan, students who repeatedly infringe on free speech on campus may face a year suspension and possibly expulsion if a new law introduced in the statehouse passes.

The law is known as Campus Free Speech Act and comes on the heels of recent events, particularly the aforementioned Coulter speech at the University of California at Berkeley. It was scheduled for late April, but was canceled due to 'safety concerns.'

The lead sponsor of the legislation is Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R-MI). He said that he hopes the legislation would prevent "shout-down vetoes" of controversial campus speakers in Michigan.

"You have a right to express your concern with [a speaker], but you don't have the right to shut them down during the actual speech . . . It's time we look at people who are prohibiting free speech rights, not trying to use that right," the Senator told Heat Street. 

The Campus Free Speech Act would permit those who are silenced to take civil action against those who kept them from speaking.

If, as in Ann Coulter's case, a  speaker was already invited to speak on campus or group facility and then disinvited, "they'd have some mechanism to regain that financial loss," Colbeck explained.

The legislation would apply to 15 universities and 28 community colleges in Michigan, including the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where not only Ann Coulter attended, but so did Madonna, Gerald Ford and Jack Kevorkian.

Go Wolverines!

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