DamianTV
03-19-2016, 02:47 AM
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-18/illinois-college-will-stop-arresting-students-passing-out-constitution
An Illinois college has reversed its position and will allow students to pass out copies of the U.S Constitution on campus.
It’s a good move, since the Alliance Defending Freedom threatened to sue them if they didn’t.
Under the old policies, students were threatened with arrest if they passed out the founding documents on the campus of the College of DuPage.
The exchange between a police officer and student Joseph Enders, captured on video, shows the officer telling Enders that, under campus policies, he needs a permit to offer the Constitution to passing students.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm9lBIauZ9c
The revised policies respect the constitutional freedoms of students by allowing them to pass out literature in outdoor areas of campus without prior permission, as the old policies required.
“It makes no sense for a public college to censor distribution of the very document that ensures free speech for all Americans,” said ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer. “The college has done the right thing in revising its policies so that the school can once again function as the marketplace of ideas that an institution of higher education is supposed to be.”
Enders, a political science major, has been working to start a Turning Point USA chapter at the college. TPUSA is a non-partisan student organization dedicated to promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government. He was standing on a campus sidewalk, handing out copies of the Constitution and asking fellow students if they would be interested in joining the group, when he was approached by the officer, who stated that his actions were against school policy and that he would have to go to the Student Life office to acquire a permit for his activities.
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Stop. Asking. Permission.
An Illinois college has reversed its position and will allow students to pass out copies of the U.S Constitution on campus.
It’s a good move, since the Alliance Defending Freedom threatened to sue them if they didn’t.
Under the old policies, students were threatened with arrest if they passed out the founding documents on the campus of the College of DuPage.
The exchange between a police officer and student Joseph Enders, captured on video, shows the officer telling Enders that, under campus policies, he needs a permit to offer the Constitution to passing students.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm9lBIauZ9c
The revised policies respect the constitutional freedoms of students by allowing them to pass out literature in outdoor areas of campus without prior permission, as the old policies required.
“It makes no sense for a public college to censor distribution of the very document that ensures free speech for all Americans,” said ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer. “The college has done the right thing in revising its policies so that the school can once again function as the marketplace of ideas that an institution of higher education is supposed to be.”
Enders, a political science major, has been working to start a Turning Point USA chapter at the college. TPUSA is a non-partisan student organization dedicated to promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government. He was standing on a campus sidewalk, handing out copies of the Constitution and asking fellow students if they would be interested in joining the group, when he was approached by the officer, who stated that his actions were against school policy and that he would have to go to the Student Life office to acquire a permit for his activities.
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Stop. Asking. Permission.