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now 25-year-old Robert Van tune in was at Modesto Junior College and he was
passing out copies of the US Constitution
but then school police showed up and they told him that he couldn't do that
in fact they specified that there's a very particular area
on campus where he is allowed to do that and it's a very very small area the
campus is pretty large
up and he has to be in that designated area and before he passes
anything out he actually has to talk to school administrators or university
administrators
to have as specified day where he can pass out copies of the US Constitution
now this happened on September 17th and when he did go talk to
officials at the University they told them you can do this at the designated
area
on September 28th so understandably and we're gonna have a discussion about all
this is the second but understandably he got a little upset about that right
and then he took the fight to the administrators
and watch what happened and I'm a trying to start
a student organization called the Americans for the this morning
but if you go to store organization like that rigmarole
regulate 30 instead a wire their rules and regulations placed on three cities I
T Y is a student
why do I is a student have to get permission do not have a free speech
it time place and that's what it's called
and that's okay speech area and free speech areas over there
the student center in that Wilson
so that little yellow circle that you guys saw the Sun school map
is where the designated free-speech area is and
its come on its comically small and I feel like when you are on a college
campus
I feel like when you are on a college campus you have you should have the
ability to use that entire campus for free speech
I me if you want a free marketplace of ideas a university is the first place
for that should exist and having
designated free-speech areas as kind of questionable especially when you're
doing something as harmless as passing out the US Constitution
how I feel like we should have numerous people passing out the US Constitution's
on iraq constitution on a regular basis
eat a little something about Robert the van tune and I
about right something about 100 yeah I think about a foot
10 eyes didn't have to have a regulation for a free speech
you are a pasar the Constitution rather than to do what's best for the caster
relevant to an agrees with you about nothing I don't you want to start now
which is our young Americans for liberty it's a libertarian organization I did it
a debate
for that I at ASU some I'm familiar with them
and yet we disagree with up agree disagree on a lot of issues
on this particular issue I agree with him I think that he should be able to
pass out the US Constitution
anywhere on the important but different a *** college man and like
yeah which got a constitution yeah but for
they don't know it you should well I don't most americans have no idea what
you're talking about his everything's whether they can
where they should be allowed to do and whether the space is big enough those
are two separate things
I think we all agree they've we should be allowed to do it right the ship your
good I guess whether that the space is comically small as you said it's absurd
arm but what I was thinking when I read this was how refreshing if I was walking
down the street and someone tried to hand me a copy of the Constitution
and there was nothing else in it know like you know brought to you by geez is
or
any the other major I would be like well that is the greatest your actions occur
not something I want people the today or tell me why I love the constitution
me my girlfriend my baby are moving we we bought a house right it's a nice time
I know can you explain why you hate the Constitution yeah
so well that wasn't on the menu
yeah foot by the right thing because it would be amazing
I so you gotta go we were moving into a house that's like the sizeof
a closet right it selectively about I'll
so but for now it's a Southern California hurt so or get rid of a bunch
stuff and I found 20 bucks that I have
that are the Bill of Rights books like I was a pain in the *** if I don't talk
about that about the looks
have the bill right so that and I look at over deliberates bucks
giveaway you know what because these *** have ruined everything
and now I can hear Sarah Palin this guy and they'll talk about
young Americans for liberty don't know what liberty is they all know what this
country stands for
they have no concept they wanted to be just for them in a while let anybody
*** it and they don't pay a dollar tax we can pave a road
or educate a child or make a sick person healthy again it or do any of these
things they have no concept what made this country great what people around
the world want to come here
they've ruined by books and even rumors constitute how dare they so
I don't give a *** about Robert tonight and he's a pain in the *** leaders know
how to speaker absolutely
age 25 is a *** junior college okay that may be the overriding factor
it attorneys like in the military itself yes why you really throw it out I think
you make legitimate points about libertarian
about libertarian ideology especially when it comes to their fiscal policy I'm
not
necessarily disagree with you on that but I'm just talking about his very
specific
active passing out the Constitution I don't want to go off on
you know what his intentions are because as long as he's just passing out the
Constitution
I don't have a problem with that and that's how it started and by the way
I don't agree with him on his a hatred
up the regulation indicated that you have to check with administrators before
he starts to an organization on campus
starting as soon organization on campus it
needs some sort of commission or whatever from administrators I mean
that's a no brainer your free speech is different is it where you can sit well
okay so it's the Constitution it's no different its constitution
if he's handing out a leaflet about some political act that he believes
I would say there really is a difference it's a nice after these giving up the
constitution the school should probably give away
perhaps the cast right we're happy with that would be I would be nice ok but
so the issue for me that is yeah okay make it the size of a football field
but other than that a school has a right to not have people
everywhere you are and stuff out like it's a there's academic freedom you have
freedom to walk from one place to another without getting harassed
I get why they would not want this to get ahead the Constitution is just like
any other
again any other group any other leaflet any other nonsense that these kids wanna
pass out now the school seems to admit own little bit of wrongdoing
okay maybe I'm reading a little too much into the statement but the
communications officer or that public relations officer did release a
statement
she says the following: in the case in the YouTube video it does not appear
that the student was disrupting
the orderly operations at the college and therefore
we are looking into the incident so basically she saying well
yeah I'm just passing out the Constitution didn't seem to be much of
an issue
so we're gonna look into and figure out why this happened and I understand I I
definitely don't want to be harassed by people on a campus
who are trying a push their political agenda I i understand the need for maybe
a designated area
but you can't be comically small and you can't tell people hey you gotta check
with the administrators to figure out when you can come back
right to practice your first amendment right wheel we all agree with that
yeah that this dude Richard Robert Shibley a senior vice president of fire
it was the the foundation for individual rights in education
fire he lives in that very small box my
official statement official statement Shipley wrote the incident
the YouTube video that we just saw should send a chill down the spine
every American for it doesn't okay
I think that's not good that's not the reactions anybody could add to the video
yeah he should be able to head out its constitution in a bigger area
that he's not disrupted things but you know that guy was going to disrupt
things if given a chance
listen I like the idea that the Constitution is being handed out however
I will grant you this concept that it was just
any other idiotic thing we wouldn't be talking about this because we all agree
with the basic idea
that it's okay if it's in one little spot so
ultimately a you know I just what she and maybe these places to be a little
more tolerant I guess
universities are supposed to be the bastions and follow signs and they're
becoming
quite in time I just I really went through that with the mug today
I was like come on man these people I like it was cool
ten years ago that I had these bill all rights bugs and now I'm like
why do men really think about people that try to exploit the constitution for
their own purposes like
the the film rights is the bill rights
I mean you should love it because that's I don't like that
a girl with the right for these jackals yeah %uh
or ruin it by with their endless talk about liberty there
take that clip