Student Activists Charged with Engaging in Student Activism
When the University of California, Irvine (UCI) last year asked the ambassador of a government widely considered to be guilty of war crimes to deliver a lecture on campus, student activists upset over their tuition money being used to provide him a platform for propaganda staged a protest, shouting phrases like "murder is not free speech," that ultimately prevented the lecture from being delivered.
Had the ambassador been from, say, Sudan, and had he rationalizing the slaughter of civilians in Darfur, the students would likely be heralded as heroes who bravely stood up for their beliefs. But he wasn't: the