Lighten Up, Berkley!

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | September 28, 2011

No. 723

Free speech seems to have gone out of style in the home of the Free Speech Movement. A new generation of impertinent little bastards has come along and some of them are actually Republicans.

In circa 1969, our left coast contemporaries loved to shock our parents with outrageous pronouncements. Now, some of those incorrigible hippies who took over buildings and shouted things like “up against the wall, *************!”, are running the University of California at Berkley these days and — mirabile dictu — are terrified by a little free speech.

Oh well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

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