The Patriot Post® · Suppressing Free Speech

Walter E. Williams: “[T]yrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Basic to their agenda are the tools of indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once they gain power, as leftists have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses. … Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, one of the nation’s most accomplished women, graciously withdrew as Rutgers University’s commencement speaker after two months of campus protests about her role in the Iraq War. Some students and professors said, ‘War criminals shouldn’t be honored.’ One wonders whether these students would similarly protest Hillary Clinton, who, as senator, voted for the invasion of Iraq.”