[Peace-discuss] WAY TO GO KAREN!

[Boyle, Francis A]

For the letter in today's News Gazette! And Karen was the real sparkplug behind our Rally against Trump Fascism before the Trump College of Law! Fab.
Protesters not 'naive' students
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Mon, 02/05/2018 - 7:00am | The News-Gazette<http://www.news-gazette.com/users/digitalmedia>
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.
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."
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."
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."
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.
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.
KAREN ARAM
Urbana


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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