Center in norfolk, virginia on American History tv on cspan3. A College Student from the university of california tried to help organize an event with conservative commentator ann coulter on campus. He talked about his experience. This was a part of the panel on free speech. It runs a little over an hour. Scott good morning, i would like to welcome you to todays discussion about free speech issues on campus. I will give a very brief introduction before introducing my colleagues. I will then ask them some questions and throw it open to you. There are microphones on both aisles for that. First of all, just a few introductory remarks about free speech on campus. First of all, it is not new. It has gotten some more attention this year than in many years in the past, but there are fairly constantly debate over controversial speakers and whatnot, and i think that context has been missing sometimes. Likewise for reasons that are somewhat hard to predict, the press jumped on some incidents muc
Scott good morning, i would like to welcome you to todays discussion about free speech issues on campus. I will give a very brief introduction before introducing my colleagues. I will then ask them some questions and throw it open to you. There are microphones on both aisles for that. First of all, just a few introductory remarks about free speech on campus. First of all, it is not new. It has gotten some more attention this year than in many years in the past, but there are fairly constantly debate over controversial speakers and whatnot, and i think that context has been missing sometimes. Likewise for reasons that are somewhat hard to predict, the press jumped on some incidents much more than others. And so as you look at these issues as they come up, thats important to remember. I also think its very important to remember that when youre talking about controversial speakers on campus, most of them speak relatively without incident. Even some of the speakers that will be talked abou
Federalist society were hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society, dean righter and julie nix who are with us today, for their assistance in organizing this forum. I also want to welcome those who are seeing us through cspan and our Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book from encounter books by the Goldwater Institutes tim sandefur. Subtitled, how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways, especially since the progressive era, that the presumption of liberty, the freedom at the heart of our founding principles and documents, has been extinguished in favor after presumption for government, with individuals having to obtain permission from government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this reversal of course. Today they often find before they can make any ch
Children from the only families theyve known, others with pointless red tape. 50 pages. Bad rules. Thats our show tonight. [applause]. John this is what built america, the declaration of independence and the constitution. Its thin, yet these rules which put limits on government, created the most prosperous and successful country in the history of the world, but after the founders gave us this, someone said we need more rules. And now we did need some, this wasnt perfect. This allowed for slavery. Founders never thought about pollution control, so good some rules were added and changed. But 164,000 of them . Thats how many had accumulated by the time president obama took office. So the president said this e sector is the life blood of our economy. I think there are outdated regulations that need to be changed. There is red tape that needs to be touched. [applause] there you go. Yeah. John yes, its true, and Everybody Loves that, but then, what did the president actually do . He cut a co
Children from the only families theyve known, others with pointless red tape. 50 pages. Bad rules. Thats our show tonight. [applause]. John this is what built america, the declaration of independence and the constitution. Its thin, yet these rules which put limits on government, created the most prosperous and successful country in the history of the world, but after the founders gave us this, someone said we need more rules. And now we did need some, this wasnt perfect. This allowed for slavery. Founders never thought about pollution control, so good some rules were added and changed. But 164,000 of them . Thats how many had accumulated by the time president obama took office. So the president said this e sector is the life blood of our economy. I think there are outdated regulations that need to be changed. There is red tape that needs to be touched. [applause] there you go. Yeah. John yes, its true, and Everybody Loves that, but then, what did the president actually do . He cut a co