Free Speech, But Not For Thee Maimon Schwarzschild

Will the swarms of "progressives" who will staff the Obama administration use and abuse the power of  government to try to reproduce today's one-party campus on a country-wide basis?  Can anyone seriously doubt it?  Michael Barone foresees "The Coming Obama Thugocracy":

Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders... from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.

Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don't like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.

Barone has it right, as he usually does.  Read the whole thing.

Comments

[Tom Smith]

And there's no fleeing to Canada on this one either.

[dearieme]

That, I'm afraid, is the price of electing those two duds, W and Slick Willie.