If Susan Cole doesn't understand free speech she should resign

Montclair State University President Susan Cole: Why would a Republican governor tolerate a college official who tramples on conservatives' free-speech rights?

Can't anyone at Montclair State University read the First Amendment?


A taxpayer-supported university claims the power to tell students what they can post on the internet.

Even worse, that same university tolerated  a real infringement of free speech rights by the person its minions are defending.

When Steve Lonegan was invited to speak there, he had every right to expect that his speech would be listened to by those in attendance. The sort of heckling engaged in by these students is called "the heckler's veto." It's not an attempt to argue a point. It's a blatant attempt to prevent someone from being heard. (UPDATE: The actual video has been taken off YouTube so it's impossible to see the actual incident for now.)

The university should have ejected the hecklers and lectured them about how to make a civlized argument that can be understood by civilized people. Instead they went after someone who made a funny remark about one of them.

If university president Susan Cole doesn't apologize for this, the governor should demand her immediate resignation.

The free-speech group FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), which is madeup of both liberals and conservatives, had this to say about the assault on basic freedoms (links in original):

ALSO: If that

anti-bullying law Christie boasted about

is to be directed only at conservatives, the Guv's got a lot of explaining to do.

If he's going to cave in to the forces of political correctness, he can kiss that 2016 presidential run goodbye.