University Wisconsin Speech Policy Works? : Time Will Tell

Interesting statement from the protest organizer stating on her webpage that having a Conservative speaker on campus is to divide the students, forcing them to decide between a peaceful protest or to commit to active violence against anyone they don't like. 

I believe at first glance, this person and her followers really believe they must commit what ever force of disruption, including violence, they can to stop any opposition ideas from bringing a common sense debate to the situation.

But someone, in the back ground has to know it isn't right or with in the civil  and natural law to stand against the free speech of others, but it's not about the law or commons sense. They are not about what's right? They don't care. This opposition is by design and if violence erupts, it's not by accident. They believe it is necessary to gain the power they want to accomplish their goals.

The protesters outside are pawns, easily discarded as there are many more waiting to take their place. As ignorance is rampant among the young and others that are easily persuaded to commit violence just the sake of bringing harm to others, to destroy is easy and fulfilling for those that have never built anything on their own. 

It's in the DNA of the progressive socialist liberals.  It's the ideology and agenda for ''transformation''. Hopefully this new policy will work and bring some semblance of organized recognition of the law.

New UW Speech Policy Scores First Success With Pavlich Appearance
by James Wigderson | Oct 11, 2017

Conservative commentator and Townhall.com News Editor Katie Pavlich was able to speak about the right to carry guns on college campuses without interruption Tuesday night at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While she spoke, about twenty protesters (according to the Daily Cardinal) were outside the hall waving phalluses and sex toys in opposition to Pavlich’s appearance.

The protest may have been silly or even disturbing to those attending the speech. And while we can imagine the outrage and charges of sexual harassment if a conservative group did the same type of protest to a leftwing female speaker, the protest was peaceful.

What was the difference between the Pavlich appearance and a speech by Ben Shapiro a year ago when he was shouted down several times by protesters? The University of Wisconsin System has a new speech code protecting the free speech rights of public speakers invited to campus.

The new policy requires universities to suspend protesters that violate the policy twice by “violent or other disorderly misconduct that materially and substantially” interferes with a speaker on campus. A third offense means expulsion.
The policy is already changing the protesters’ behavior. Just ask Kat Kerwin, the apparent leader of the protests.
“Kerwin said the regents’ free speech proposal ‘definitely changed the way’ the group protested this event, but that it is still important to push the limits of campus protests,” the Daily Cardinal reported. “She said the group will ‘save disrupting protests’ for speakers who they think are inciting violence.”

Kerwin had previously spoken out against the policy because of the limit it places on leftwing mobs to drown out speech or otherwise disrupt speech they don’t like.

We should still be concerned that Kerwin takes it upon herself to decide when a speaker is “inciting violence.” After all, the protest organizing Facebook page said of the invitation to Pavlich to speak on campus, “It is an obvious attempt to divide our campus and perpetuate violence.” All the more reason then for the state legislature to actually codify the speech-protecting policy lest some future Board of Regents goes wobbly and repeals the policy.