Posted inLetters to the Editor

When speech becomes a crime

You can imagine my embarrassment when I came across a San Francisco writer’s commentary on the assault on free speech our country has faced in recent years and saw my alma mater as an example of Orwellian like thought control. (SFGate.com “When Speech Becomes a Crime” by Cinnamon Stillwell, June 28, 2006)

I missed the 2003 story of College Republican Steve Hinkle being found guilty by Cal Poly for “disruption” for the crime of putting up a flier advertising a black conservative speaker.