You have the right to free speech, as long as you don't offend us

Daniel Pipes required police protection (and had to endure a lecture from the Police Department's Hate Crimes unit) the last time he came to a Toronto university, and now 110 Chomsky wannabes have signed an "open letter" - repeating, as usual, the dishonest smears promoted by CAIR - against his upcoming appearance at U of T. (Well, actually, they "affirm Pipes' right to speak at our university", but then say "hate, prejudice and fear-mongering have no place on this campus." Given the, um, expansive definition of "hate" used by these people, we can translate this statement as, "Pipes is welcome as long as he doesn't say anything we don't like.")

For a charter member of the neoconservative cabal that controls the world, Pipes sure has a hard time giving a speech without a bunch of brownshirted yahoos trying to shout him down. (But we're the fascists, of course.)

(via Small Dead Animals)

Posted by damian at March 29, 2005 08:34 PM