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.
