I am not accusing you of partisanship. I probably agree with you on 95% of the issues. I am just being naive by wanting both sides of any issue to report just the facts and leave their prejudices/agendas out of it.

But I doubt that hasn’t been the case for decades.

I was following the policies but I was not given due process. I found no one nor any office on campus to help me. I stayed away for 2 years because it was during the scamdemic and classes were held on-line. When I came back, the department (including the director) were still biased against me. They tried to ban me again just for returning to the building, but my police report said I was banned for a year. It took the intervention of a dean to allow me to return to classes.

My reputation was established because I wore a MAGA cap for several years in the department. On top of that, I reported irregularities with student worker hours (workers not present during their assigned times), and the arbitrary application of policies based on favoritism (sound familiar?). I was accused of being a misogynist and racist because a female Dreamer overheard me saying I was against DACA.

To this day, when I asked roughly 10 offices (including the dean and provost), no one can tell me where I can file a complaint against the professor who accused me of not following policies.

I tried contacting FIRE but they wouldn’t help me. I hadn’t heard about Liberty Justice Center until this story.

I plan to write up my side of events and deliver a copy to the dean and department. Nothing will happen, but I want my side on record since I was never given a chance to defend myself before an ASU department banned me (from their department, not from all of ASU).

Brio: The picture comes from the lawsuit complaint, to which I provide a link. Though it is obviously the point of view of Tizon, it provides all the details which explains why ASU backed down so completely. They were in the wrong.

What has been happening frequently on college campuses is that some administrative thug or teacher decides free speech means only their speech. They then act independently (and ignorantly) of the college to intimidate students. I suspect that is what happened here, and it is almost certainly why ASU did not fight the case.

And you might want to spend some time reading some of the stories listed here. I stand for freedom and free speech, for everyone. There are a handful of examples in that list where I reported blacklisting of people on the left, though only a few. Almost all the oppression today is from the left. If that makes me appear partisan to you than you merely are using that fact as an excuse to make believe none of this is happening.

First, there are printed copies if the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights hanging in every ASU classroom.

This incident can’t be simply about handing out copies of the Constitution.

ASU has numbers printed on the concrete where student organizations are allowed to reserve a table setup for handing out literature. Everyone knows about the rule. But students are allowed to walk about and hand out stuff too.

I don’t know if this student had a table. But he could walk around the mall handing out copies without an issue. Some people stand at mall intersections and hand out coupon books. I’ve seen religious people standing there also handing out bibles with their extras in a box by their feet.

If the photo at the top is correct, that is a location that needs to be reserved, even if no one was using the space.

I don’t know if there is a charge to rent the spaces on the mall. I’ve never joined a club or had a reason to distribute materials on campus.

I’d like to read a story about this without an agenda from either side. But I like to read that about any issue in the US but that doesn’t seem possible these days.

[btw– rhymes with “cake”]

Michael Malice: Your Welcome Ep256
Vivek Ramaswamy (April 26, 2023)
https://youtu.be/zVAPNtTHoC0
1:12:49

There are too many snowflakes that melt under the blazing heat of the truth.

Andi: Thank you as always. My word malaprops are becoming increasingly weird with time.

One of his “planks” is making political expression a civil right. That takes the 1st Amdt. protections to a new level. I am not sure how that can be balanced with other rights, but it would be an interesting conversation to force on the media and the left in general.
He has some other ideas that are worth discussions also.

https://www.amazon.com/Not-Shot-Fired-Jan-Kozak/dp/189264701X

Sound familiar?

“Jan Kozak explains how the people of Czechoslovakia were manipulated into voting themselves into slavery. Through targeted mass agitation, a free government was transformed into a totalitarian dictatorship — legally! Today more than ever, the revolutionary methods described by Kozak are being targeted against American liberties.”