I wonder where her name will show up, 10 or 20 years from
now , the URI student who thinks FREE SPEECH is just so much " CRAP " .
That is what I read on the front page of the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL this
morning . FREE SPEECH = CRAP ! Tell that to the professors who
refused to sign a loyalty oath in Yugoslavia ( story, Dec. 7 ) .
The most appalling lesson ANY American college student can learn
is disdain for FREE SPEECH .
Should any outraged minority be able to shut down a newspaper
virtually overnight . Is it educational to hear and read only what
pleases you and flatters your self-esteem - especially in your
formative years ?
There is indeed a totalitarian strain in the thinking of
many political activists who might even label themselves " LEFT- WING ".
Perhaps Erich Fromm was right years ago about what he then perceived
as a universal tendency : " Escape from Freedom " .
FREE SPEECH can harm no cause worthy of free minds !
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