Sacramento City College Crushes Student’s Free Speech
Posted on October 29, 2009
**UDPATE** 11/9/09
-By Warner Todd Huston
For Constitution Day this year at Sacramento City College Associated Student Government (ASG) President and student Steve Macias arranged for a group named Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion group, to participate on campus in the Constitution Day activities.
The group was approved for participation by the ASG and set up its booth at the appointed time. And then the world came to an end. Pro-Infanticide groups such as Planned Parenthood set up their own, countering booths the next day and left-wing hatemongers in the student body immediately began to circulate a recall petition to have Mr. Macias removed from the Associated Student Government leadership.
There is also some speculation that this insane, un-American recall effort being visited upon Mr. Macias is being tacitly approved of by the College adviser overseeing the ASG.
Even the local press tried to pile onto an attack of Mr. Macias. The SacCity Express originally reported on October 13 that Macias presented the anti-abortion group under a false name when he submitted the group for the vote of the ASG board. On the 26th the paper printed a retraction admitting their “mistake.”
On his FaceBook site, Mr. Macias also reports that one of Sacramento College’s professors has engaged in a nasty email exchange with the student, too. “Why Do these teachers feel that it is there[sic] role to put us students down?” Macias asks. “I am deeply offended that an instutution[sic] that taxpayers pay for and pay to attend would allow this individual to clearly descriminate[sic] against people of faith. Calling Christianity ‘make believe.’ is unacceptable dialougue[sic] from Teacher[sic] to student. Especially when you seek out and attack the student.”
Amusingly, with her quote on the matter, ASG Vice President Debbie Dixon proved that her parent’s money is being sorrowfully wasted on her failed education.
“I am highly offended, I have rights, just as they have rights to not be offended!”
Sorry Debbie, dear, but there is NO “right” not to be offended. The Constitution safeguards political free speech but it does not safeguard your right “not to be offended.” No one has a right not to be offended because such a right would preclude everyone else’s right to free speech in the first place. After all, what one person feels is right and good to say, someone else somewhere will find offense contained therein. So, dear, dear, lil’ Debbie, no one has a right not to be offended. But, I do have to say, I am offended by your ignorance.
So, what we see with this dispiriting case is typical of the distempered left. All these caring, civilized, open minded, more tolerant lefties are in full attack mode trying to shut down the free speech of people with whom they disagree… as always. Sadly, that’s the fascist, Obamaesque sort of actions we are coming to expect from the extreme left and the bubble ensconced, pointy-headed, ivory tower dwellers in academe, isn’t it?
**UDPATE** 11/9/09
College launches attack campaign on student body president over pro-life group’s display
ADF letter: student officer was simply respecting group’s constitutional rights
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom have issued a cease-and-desist letter to Sacramento City College officials after the president of the Associated Student Government was subjected to an illegal recall election for refusing to censor a pro-life group on campus.
College officials targeted Steve Macias for retaliation after they attempted to censor the speech of an off-campus pro-life group that ASG had already voted to allow to participate in a campus event. Macias refused to censor the pro-life display on the grounds that doing so would violate the group’s First Amendment rights. The officials and ASG retaliated by subjecting him to an illegal recall election.
Full news release, quotes, and related media resources available at the following link:
http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/3397
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
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I must say that while I agree with the overall content of this story, their are is one thing that cough my eye. The Quote that you attribute to Debbie Dixon is taken out of context. You put her quote as
““I am highly offended, I have rights, just as they have rights to not be offended!” .
Then you go on to say that she was against this group. When, if you read the whole quote from the story that you linked to which is
“I am highly offended,” the ASG Vice President Debbie Dixon said. “I have rights, just as they have rights to not be offended!” Somehow, this is justification for tossing a group off of a public campus? Don’t schools teach about free speech anymore, or do they just teach that if you are offended you can violate others’ constitutional rights to free speech?
She is agreeing with the fact that just because you are offended does not give any one the right to to trample on someone else’s rights.
VP Dixon is a middle-aged woman going to school on her own dime.
SCC is a CITY college; no ivory towers but we do have a few trailers we have classes in that are vaguely ivory-ish in appearance.
The author of this article has not read the email that he is writing about (between the teacher and Macias) or he’d be quite aware of just how tall a mountain Macias has made out of this molehile.
The “Genocide Awareness Project” was not presented to the ASG as an anti-abortion group; if it had been they may not have voted to have it on campus.
The fact that Steve lied is why he’s being recalled.
And no amount of childish name calling this hack of a blogger, or anyone else in Mr. Macias’ corner, is going to change the fact that his tactics are Rovian, his theology is fundamentalist, and his opposition is legion.
… it was sarcasm, MDGabrial. And you lied. Steve didn’t.