Moving right along, to my next topic of discussion, we come to one of my favorites: the inability of people on the extremes of the political spectrum to comprehend the very liberties that they claim to be expounding.
Case in point: the Minutemen disruption at Columbia. The students who took to the stage claimed that they did it in the name of free speech. Whose? Certainly no one seemed to be infringing on their right to freedom of expression. The Minutemen? Well, they seem to have been denied their opportunity to speak by those same students so hell-bent on defending free expression.
Ah, but we forget – the Minutemen are a “legitimate” part of the discussion. So many these days have the idea that free speech only includes those who agree with their position, it almost boggles the mind. How can there be any exchange of ideas, when opposing ideas are forbidden?
I think there are a large number of supposedly open minded people in this country who really ought to go back to square one and rethink their assumptions.