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Democrat Tammy Bruce speaking from experience as a college campus lecturer:

.. the intellectual and personal harassment conservative students and faculty face is beginning to mirror to oppression of Jewish students and academics in 1930’s Germany

What led her to say that? Well -- among other things -- this:

My speaking experience at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island was classic. The College Republicans there, led by Jason Mattera, Jedediah Jones, and Monique Stuart had awakened the campus to real political and intellectual diversity with the publication of their conservative newspaper, The Hawk’s Right Eye. Prior to inviting me to campus, the club had been called a “hate group” by members of the administration, funds for their newspaper had been frozen, graffiti on the campus compared them to the Hitler Youth (of course) and at least one member has had to deal with threats to her personal safety.

All in all, not unusual experiences for campus conservatives. There was the typical harassment by the campus police against students trying to promote my speech. In a coordinated effort to stop promotion of the event, two young men who were chalking a speech announcement on a walkway were stopped and interrogated by campus police. In a clever move, after being told by the police that they had orders to stop any activity of the College Republicans, the young men said they were with the Gay Pride group on campus. Only then were they allowed to continue.

Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack