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**Redys** · 12-10-2005, 11:12 AM

No, but the campus should have. Even despite that I think the hecklers were rude, the student govt spent $16,000 for Coulter to come speak, and that money essentialy went to waste, based on the actions of a few. I wonder why the campus security didnt remove the hecklers.

Weren't some of the hecklers also students, just as some of those in attendance to hear her speak were most likely students and non students alike. So if that is the case did the students not have a right to protest what they saw as a waste of some of their tuition money?

I wonder if you would feel this way when a liberal speaker you find particularly onerous comes to a school near you and recieves significant disruptions in his or her speach from hecklers in the crowd. I do not believe the constitution indicates that you have a right to free speech if and only if you are not bothering someone else.

12-10-2005, 11:12 AM	#28
Redys Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 539 Senior Member	No, but the campus should have. Even despite that I think the hecklers were rude, the student govt spent $16,000 for Coulter to come speak, and that money essentialy went to waste, based on the actions of a few. I wonder why the campus security didnt remove the hecklers. Weren't some of the hecklers also students, just as some of those in attendance to hear her speak were most likely students and non students alike. So if that is the case did the students not have a right to protest what they saw as a waste of some of their tuition money? I wonder if you would feel this way when a liberal speaker you find particularly onerous comes to a school near you and recieves significant disruptions in his or her speach from hecklers in the crowd. I do not believe the constitution indicates that you have a right to free speech if and only if you are not bothering someone else.
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