Yale students sign petition to abolish the First Amendment

Seeking to determine just how many, if any, Yale University students were willing to sign a petition in favor of repealing the First Amendment, film maker Ami Horowitz went on campus in New Haven on a balmy day, and stood outside asking students passing by if they were interested in lending their signatures to it.

What these students did not know is that satirist Horowitz’s petition, though clearly worded and plain as all get-out, was not for real.  It was an experiment to see just how many students would fall for his ruse and sign the document declaring their position – and it worked.

Within one hour, Horowitz had the signatures of over 50 gullible Yale students willing to destroy some of the basic tenets of universal human rights.

Furthermore, Horowitz claims that he would have added many more names had he continued his requests beyond that one hour. 

 

His motivation in carrying out this scheme may have been prompted by prior on-campus student demonstrations aimed at restricting certain forms of opinion voiced by other Yale students.

   

At least one such scene was captured showing one student screaming at another and asking for assistance to forcibly remove that student from the area.

This hot link captures one of those episodes and shows another scene during which Horowitz easily seduces gullible, yet perfectly willing students to sign his petition aimed at sinking the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

FYI REFRESHER:

The U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment contains five of the most basic and easy to understand principles sustaining this republic:

·         Freedom of Speech.

·         Freedom of Religion.

·         Freedom of the Press.

·         Freedom of Assembly.

·         Freedom of Petition.

Naïve or privileged students would presume to deny those rights to others.  They know naught.

 

The irony is that without the right to freedom of assembly and of speech guaranteed under the First Amendment, those Yale students could have been prevented from expressing their views.

Correspondingly, I could have been restricted from writing this post.

Without the right to petition, Horowitz could also have been stymied from advancing his cause -- just a few samplings of freedom in America.  Enjoy them while you can.

 

Poor Yale -- caught in the vise (or should I say, more appropriately, vice) of political correctness running wild.

Thanks for reading.  Be good to yourselves.