Update: SFSU College Republicans will not be punished

Update to my previous blog entry on the SFSU College Republicans being charged with a formal complaint to inciting violence and creating a hostile environment with the burning of Hamas and Hezbollah flags.

The University announced on March 19th that the College Republicans will face no punishment for hosting an anti-terrorism rally at which participants stepped on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) President Greg Lukianoff said, "We are relieved that SFSU has come to its senses and recognized that it cannot punish students for constitutionally protected expression."

SFSU President Robert A. Corrigan gave the good news to FIRE saying that "the Student Organisation Hearing Panel (SOHP) unanimously concluded that the College Republicans organisation had not violated the Student Code of Conduct and that there were no grounds to support the student complaint lodged against them."

FIRE Press Release on this matter

WorldNetDaily - Students who 'desecrated Allah' acquitted

The Golden Gate - Flag-Stomping Rabble Rousers Found Not Guilty

FrontPageMag - Free Speech--But Only for Our Enemies

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Posted by: From a lonely Apartment in Paris
Posted on: April 3, 2007 03:48 PM

SFSU did the right thing. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. I even consider hate speech protected under the first amendment, no matter how offensive the words might be. I went to SFSU and while I consider myself a liberal, I believe that it is our duty as liberals to protect the rights of the conservative student body.

C

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