Bernie Sanders says colleges must let ‘controversial’ guests speak on campuses

  There has been a concerted effort by the left on college campuses to shut down opposition speech, we saw it most recently at Berkeley when Anne Coulter had to cancel a speech due to death threats and it also happened recently to Milo Yiannopoulos.

  The left not only does not want to listen to an opposing view but they wish to stifle free speech and limit it to one side so that the other side cannot even be heard by people who are either curious about what the other side thinks, or even by those on campus who might happen to agree with the other side.

  Bernie Sanders has suddenly emerged as a voice of reason for the left on this issue. Here is what he had to say about this issue yesterday on CBS:

Sunday on CBS, Sanders agreed that efforts to stop free speech can contribute to creating a powder keg.

 Asked about protests on college campuses in an effort to stop controversial speakers, the senator emphasized that “people have a right to speak.”

“And you have a right, if you are on a college campus not to attend. You have a right to ask hard questions about the speaker if you disagree with him or her,” Sanders added. “But what — why should we be afraid of somebody coming on a campus or anyplace else and speaking? You have a right to protest. But I don’t quite understand why anybody thinks it is a good idea to deny somebody else the right to express his or her point of view.”

  I cannot believe I am about to write this but I agree with Bernie Sanders on this issue. The speakers have a right to speak if they are invited and the left has a right to protest the speaker but the person should be allowed to speak.

  I feel the same way about what has happened in the last couple of days with the Shakespeare in the Park controversy: I do not agree with what they are doing but suddenly the right has decided they do not have the right to put on this play with its obscene ending and have tried to shut it down.

  We have reached the point in this country where nobody even wants to listen to what the other side has to say on any given issue, this is not healthy and last week it almost became deadly. This has to end! Maybe Bernie Sanders is feeling a little bit guilty because one of his campaign volunteers tried to kill Republicans or maybe he has always felt this way, I do not know, but maybe some good can come from this yet.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium