<div dir="ltr">Great piece Karen! The NG is the worst! BD</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Boyle, Francis A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu" target="_blank">fboyle@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.2in;line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.2in;line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" 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."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.2in;line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" 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."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.2in;line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" 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."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.2in;line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.2in;line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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