AG Sessions speech 9 17 18 -Free Speech will be protected   DOJ work being done over last 1plus yr
Channel: Jimmie Grimes
Date: 2019-03-08

PROTECTING FREE SPEECH ON COLLEGE CAMPUS

Start at 1:15,  1:17 "celebrate today"  Constitution Day - 231 Years Old today!

2:10 Five Rights listed - "First Amendment guaranteed Freedom of Religion, Speech, Assembly, Petition, Press, ....NOT JUST WORDS... Fiercely Held Views"

2:33 "Founders Protected the Liberty of Americans to express themselves...   ...a CORE VALUE"

4:00 "Today freedom of speech and thought has come most under attack on the college campuses - That should SHOCK US!   The words of the Founder of the University of Virginia as chiselled in his monument nearby declare, 'For I Have Sworn On The Altar Of GOD Eternal Hostility Against Every Form of Tyranny Over the MIND of MAN'.  This was the vibrant spirit of our founders, MAY WE NOT DEPART FROM IT!  ..but many are departing from these principles  or most perhaps most dangerously they have abandoned principle and truth all together.  If that is so then they have chosen politics, ideology, passion and 'Power Over Principle, Over LAW'   When one exaults Ideology and Power then suppression of opposing voices 'can be justified' but THIS IS NOT AMERICA ...  Ideology and POWER Politics ARE NOT LAW."

5:45 "Make NO mistake, this Dept of Justice is concerned about the suppression of speech that is now occurring"

6:08 ..."and defend these Rights WE WILL.  ... and the most important time to defend a valued right, is when it is being attacked or eroded"

6:21 "Last year the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education surveyed 450 colleges and universities and found that 40% maintained 'speech codes' that SUBSTANTIALLY infringe on Constitutionally protected rights.   Of the public colleges surveyed, 
which are LEGALLY BOUND by the First Amendment, fully 1/3 had written policies banning 'dis-favored speech'."

EXAMPLES of infringements are then listed by AG Sessions:
 - Berkeley, CA - demonsted BIAS against ALL Conservative Students - applied a stricter set of rules for inviting public speakers to conservative student organisations than other campus groups.

 - Pierce College, in CA. - Prohibited a student from distributing copies of the US Constitution on Constitution Day outside of the designated free speech zone!  (616 sq ft size of zone,  outside of this zone they do not have free speech)

 - GA Gwinnett College - limited "free speech" to just 15/10,000th of 1% of the campus,  Students had to get "PERMISSION" from campus officials in advance to speak there, cannot "disturb the comfort of persons"  Free speech ...a very limited 'privilege' not a Right!

9:46 "Change has never been affected without disturbing the comfort of persons."

10:23  "We also filed a 'Statement of Interest' in a Lawsuit against the University of Mich.  The university saunt to forbid harassment, bullying, and actions motivated by bias.  They also forbade speech that is interpreted to be demeaning,  bothersome or hurtful.  But the rules did not give clear definition about what any of these terms mean...  rules enforced by group of campus bureaucrats and campus police with the Orwellian name of the BIAS RESPONSE TEAM - 'BRT' students are encouraged to 'report' their complaints to the BRT which presumably then investigates to see if the speech was bothersome to them..."

11:40  "...I'm Pleased that the General Counsel for the University of Mich is here today!"  (HA!)

11:46  "Make no mistake the issues you will be discussing today involve Protected CORE LIBERTIES Possessed by ALL Americans- even Students!"

11:57  "Those protections provided by our Constitution are of INESTIMABLE VALUE.   No third level bureaucrat committee top official at ANY University has the power to take them away,  this has GONE TOO FAR, IT MUST END.  The Country protects noisome assembly, immoderate speech, provocative speech whether left or right.  Suppression of competing voices IS NOT the AMERICAN WAY!   We have reached a pivotal perhaps even historic moment it's time to stand up to the 'bullies on campus', 'bullies in our culture',"
  
12:40  "There are RADICALS out there that have openly and systematically justified actions that would DENY Americans the right to speak out against their favorite ideological agenda"
 
12:57  "...It's time to put a Stake in Its HEART, we HAVE TO Stand Up To IT, and We WILL Do So - RESOLUTELY"...

AG Sessions Speech on Constitution Day Sept 17, 2018.
 - DOJ work being done over last 1-plus yr