Public Event: Threats to Religious Liberty: On Campus and Across the Nation

Threats to Religious Liberty: On Campus and Across the Nation

Thursday, March 15, 2012 

7:00pm until 8:30pm 

Carol Swain

Moderator: Carol Swain is a Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt.

Panel:

Michael Paulsen is a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and is among the nation’s leading scholars of constitutional interpretation.

Jim Blumstein is a professor at the Vanderbilt Medical School and director of Vanderbilt’s Health Policy Center.

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

Event is free and open to the public. 

Reserved parking is across the street from the law school.

Sponsors: Vanderbilt Law School, Lee and Kelly Beaman, Campus Republicans, Young Americans for Liberty, Law and Government Program at Vanderbilt Law School, the Christian Legal Society and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Vanderbilt University Law School

131 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203

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The truth about our counter-protest (and what the Tennessean got wrong!)

From: Stephen Siao

Friends,

By now, I'm sure most of you have heard of our counter-protest of Occupy Nashville last night. However, if you read the Tennessean today, you definitely did not get the true story (which is, I suppose, expected). It was definitely not a kum-ba-ya moment like the Tennessean spinned it as. In fact, several of our members were called racists by Occupiers with the Tennessean reporter standing right next to them (she proceeded to interviewing them but made no mention of them being called racists!)

Here is our video response to the Tennessean's misleading article: http://www.youtube.com

I encourage you to check out WSMV, News Channel 5, WKRN, or TN Report's coverage of it, which were all accurate and fair (is that really too much to ask for nowadays??).

We went for two reasons. First, we wanted to show them that not all college students supported the movement, in fact many are actually against it. Their demands will do nothing but add to the burgeoning debt already on each of my generation's shoulders. Second, we believe their protest is fraudulent and misguided. They should be at the White House--not the State Capitol or Wall Street.

Though the some of the media (and bloggers) chew us up, at the end of the day, I am so proud of each of the 22 students who courageously took the stand against this movement. We thought when it started raining, surely we'd lose half the group--but no, everyone came!

Also, the media's take about how they graciously invited us to speak to them is misleading as well - they invited us, then pressured us, into speaking to their group. We declined their first few offers, and then two reporters came up with voice recorders asking why we were refusing to speak to them and whether we were just there to cause trouble. At that moment, maybe against better judgment, we decided we didn't want them to spin that, so we took the floor and gave them a piece of our mind!

All the best,

stephen

Stephen Siao

State Chairman, Tennessee College Republican Committee

President, Vanderbilt College Republicans

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Occupy Nashville's "We Love You."

“We Love You” yelled the Occupy Nashville protestors as the Vandy College Republican counter protestors approached the Legislative Plaza.

“From the first moment Occupy Nashville protesters heard about the Vanderbilt students’ counterprotest, they had planned a warm welcome. Promises of cookies were made early on and actually carried out,” reports The Tennessean.

Isn’t that sweet? I mean, it really is nice that people who disagree with each other can express their points of view and it not resort to angry shouting or violence.

However, I would still urge caution. When the Occupiers scream “We Love You,” they may be talking about Che Guevara’s Revolutionary Love. Last week we saw a picture of an Occupy protestor whose tent featured a posted sign that quoted Che Guevara saying, "The True Revolutionary is guided by feelings of Love."

That revolutionary love involves lining up suspected enemies of the revolution and putting a bullet through their head. It was Che who said, "If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot."  And, "What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims." 

If an Occupier says, "I love You," you may want to ask, "what do you mean by that?"

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