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Patrick Henry Would Not Be Amused (SEESHOLTZ, Counterbias)
Patrick Henry Would Not Be Amused

June 22 2006
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MEL SEESHOLTZ



“Give me liberty, or give me death!”

– Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia Convention, March 1775

Patrick Henry didn’t mean Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University or the new “Christian” college that bears his name. But he did mean freedom from a dogmatic ideology that sanctioned political and intellectual slavery.

David Horowitz has been beating the conservative drum and fabricating misinformation about all those supposedly sinister “liberal” professors in American colleges and universities. His so-called “Academic Bill of Rights” is a blueprint for the extermination of open discussion and true academic freedom. As the American Association of University Professors put it, “the Academic Bill of Rights undermines the very academic freedom it claims to support.”

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