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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Peace-discuss [<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net">mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dianna Visek via Peace-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 5, 2018 9:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>; Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] My letter to the NG, responding to their very negative editorial<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">On Monday, February 5, 2018, 7:16:13 AM CST, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;background:white"><span class="yiv8395113176submitted"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Mon, 02/05/2018 - 7:00am | <a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/users/digitalmedia" target="_blank" title="View user profile."><span style="color:#13294B;text-decoration:none">The
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The News-Gazette editorial board got it wrong in the Jan. 30 editorial related to the rally at the University of Illinois College of Law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">They refer to those supporting Professor Francis Boyle and those protesting the dean bringing Malcolm Stewart to speak at the college as "lemmings," and a "handful of naive and gullible
students."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The majority were not only "not students," they were those with years of involvement in political issues such as "immigrant rights," "anti-war" and "support for labor."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Many had years of experience teaching or working within the system, many possessed doctorates. Those who were students were clearly some of the best and brightest on campus, and all anyone
had to do was listen to their speeches to know they were anything but "gullible or naive."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">There was no prevention of freedom of speech, no where was the "speaker" blocked, intimated or threatened. The protesters never entered the building, never blocked the pathway, and stayed
in the courtyard away from the building.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">What the protesters insisted upon is their right to protest a speaker supporting an administration focused on "banning immigrants, DACA and Dreamers," forcible roundups by ICE and ignoring
sanctuary cities rights, with federal takeovers, as well as a ban on Muslims from those nations which the U.S. is guilty of bombing and destroying.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">KAREN ARAM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Urbana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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