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Monday, October 28, 2019

Georgetown should suspend students who shut down speakers: op-ed

The acting secretary of homeland security, Kevin McAleenan, was supposed to give a speech at Georgetown University, but the event was shut down by protesters.

Event sponsors feebly asked pro-immigrant protesters to sit down and wait for the question-and-answer session several times, but they continued chanting and heckling, prompting McAleenan to leave.

Now a new column is slamming the school for its handling of the situation.

If administrators do not defend the right to freedom of speech, then “Georgetown is no longer a university at all. It is a hostage to censors,” Washington Examiner commentary writer Tom Rogan says.

Those students who disrupted McAleenan’s speech should be suspended, he argues, adding that it wouldn’t be hard to identify the perpetrators as several of them have spoken to media outlets:

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Take away any State or Federal funding from this so called university for violating the Constitutional right of Freedom of Speech. Then watch the little dem's parents start screaming.

Anonymous said...

A two semester suspension should be imposed on the brats who feel they can control who will and will not speak. Next will be who can and can not teach and who will be the administration. You will have the patients running the asylum before you know it!!

Anonymous said...

That's what I'm sayin

Anonymous said...

The same Catholic (cough) University that covered ALL RELIGIOUS STATUE'S when their Muslim King Obama came. This University has become a joke in academic and most certainly the Catholic Church.