Remember back when Barack Obama used the IRS to target conservatives who were opposing President Obama’s reelection, subjecting them to intrusive audits?
Well, it appears Harvard administrators are playing a game of shadow, copying these same tactics and using them against conservative students.
From Daily Caller:
Student activists at Harvard Law School (HLS) attempted to use the FBI to track a blog critical of them, while school administrators tried to find the identities of its authors, according to recently leaked emails.
In recent months, activists have formed a group dubbed Royall Must Fall, which has campaigned for a variety of changes at HLS, most notably the removal of the school’s historic seal, which is based on the coat of arms of a slave-owning family. Driving the success behind the seal’s removal was an alleged “hate crime” that occurred in November, when students found black tape covering portraits of black HLS faculty.
Soon after the tape incident, an anonymous blog titled Royall Asses popped up. The blog attacked the Royall Must Fall movement, argued the black tape incident was a false flag hoax, and in particular went after three members (Mawuse H. Vormawor, Alexander J. Clayborne, and Brian Klosterboer) it said may have conspired to perpetrate the hoax. The three students were dubbed the “Royall Asses,” hence the name of the blog. Later, a fourth student, Derecka Purnell, was added as well.
But the blog definitely attracted the attention of Royall Must Fall. So much so, in fact, that they got Harvard to investigate them, and considered trying to bring in the FBI as well.
This was revealed in two emails published by Royall Asses — yes, you read that correctly — both of which were sent by HLS student Christian Williams to 40 students.
In the first email, sent out Dec. 6, Williams discusses threats that group members have received due to their “racial justice movement,” and says that at her father’s suggestion she plans to report such threats to the FBI. Williams doesn’t just stop at reporting threats, though. She also says that if Vormawor, Klosterboer and Clayborne give their permission, she would ask the FBI to start monitoring the Royall Asses blog, even though the blog had made no threats against them.
In the second email, Williams discusses a meeting with three HLS administrators, who apparently told her that Harvard’s IT department and police department were both trying to find out the identities of the person (or people) behind the Royall Asses blog.
Royall Asses claims that it came into possession of the two emails because one of the people Williams contacted was appalled that the student activists and Harvard itself would use “Gestapo tactics to invade student privacy.” That student forwarded the emails to Royall Asses.
Well now, I thought the whole point of attending college was to have your ideas and way of thinking challenged by being exposed to a wide plethora of different view points? Doesn’t attempting to silence dissent from the majority sort of fly in the face of that principle?
Oh. That’s right. Liberals have no principles. Other than the principle of having no principles.
Anyway, this isn’t surprising in the least. Lefties are all for freedom of speech, so long as you don’t disagree with their point of view or challenge them with pesky things like facts.
This is just more proof that at the center of progressive thought is the idea of group think, the hive mind, where having your own thoughts and opinions that go against the majority puts a target on your back.
Stuff like this is why we need to be fighting harder than ever to preserve freedom of speech and the First Amendment with everything we have.