If you'd stood on the corner of 5th and Main in Hendersonville, NC, circa
1955, and spouted anything but the Gospel, Police Chief Otis Powers would
have personally escorted you to a free night's accommodation at the city
pokey.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/1/2015 7:21 AM, Scott Gomez wrote:
>
>> One is as free to say what one likes as one wants, as long as one is
>> willing to accept the consequences of that speech.
>>
>
> But that was not the case in Berkeley before the early 60s. The whole
> thing started because campus police were rousting advocates with card
> tables, even those set up on public sidewalks (wide, not blocking) adjacent
> to the campus, confiscating materials, destroying property, roughing up and
> sometimes arresting both those people and soap boxers.
>
> So what you say is a big improvement on the situation before the FSM. One
> was not then free "to say what one likes as one wants" back then. People
> who did so on the wrong topics on in the wrong way were silenced and/or
> carted away. Speech was not free then, and the consequences were more
> draconian that they are today.
>
> I did not experience it , but understood the situation to be even more
> oppressive elsewhere. Kent State comes to mind. (I have a friend who is
> professor of Video there now.)
>
> It seems that the material posted on the UNH web site that started this
> thread is an example of free speech not in line with official University
> positions.
>
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