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Pernicious thought control assaults
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Submitted by Dave Marciniak (United States), Dec 30, 2002 at 09:23

These so called professors inflict pernicious thought control assaults on their detractors at the universities by demanding that students "think right" or be expelled or suspended. The examples of this academic terrorism are numerous. These thought control attacks are found in Maoist Lao Gai indoctrination camps in communist countries such as China.

Sure, professors, you may have your freedom speech, but I will not allow Marxist techniques and harrassment to be used against dissenters in the name of your academic freedom. Your freedom of speech ends where my thoughts begin and you have no right to demand that I think and speak as you do. This assault will be stopped by our state legislature. I will demand it.

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