So what are we to do in a society where everyone (except college professors) seems to ?get it? when it comes to free speech? The answer is simple: we must launch a formal campaign to sensitize the willfully uneducable about the threats to free speech posed by campus speech codes.
In other words, we must begin to police the thought police with an organized campaign. And today, I am launching that organized campaign.
The first prong of the attack involves the organization of a legal network, which will offer pro bono assistance to college students charged with violating unconstitutional campus speech codes.
In order to join that legal network, interested attorneys should send an e-mail to mike@DrAdams.org. Along with your email address, please include your mailing address, fax and office phone numbers.
The rest is up to the students. I am sure that they can think of numerous ways to intentionally violate the campus right to be un-offended and comfortable, which is at the heart of the speech code movement. But, just in case students cannot think of anything, here are a couple of ideas:
*In the fall semester most campuses sponsor ?National Coming Out Day? for gays. Shortly thereafter, sponsor a ?National Coming Out Day? for campus conservatives. Ask your administration to provide free counseling and ?safe zones? for those ready to come out of the closet.
*In the spring semester most campuses sponsor a ?National Day of Silence? during which gays and gay activists don?t say anything as a way of bringing attention to gay issues. Write your administration telling them how much you enjoyed the ?National Day of Silence? and then ask them to extend it. Specifically, you can petition for a ?National Year of Silence? so you won?t have to listen to gay students whine about homophobia all year long.
Either one of these ideas is sure to get under the administration?s skin badly enough to levy charges of hate speech. Then, the real fun will begin when you contact www.DrAdams.org and sue the hell out of them for violating your constitutional right to use parody and sarcasm as forms of expression.
In other words, I am asking students to do more than ?get a life.? I am asking them to get under the Dean?s skin, get a lawyer, and get rid of campus speech codes.
Because life is short and liberty is precious, let the games begin.
Mike Adams is a professor at UNC-Wilmington. He hopes that his readers will check out the following link: http://www.ihadababytshirt.com