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LTTE: Freedom of Speech
Issue date: 9/26/07 Section: Opinion
Congratulations David!
I fully support your right to free speech. When we are not allowed to publish or express our thoughts, this country will be in some very serious trouble.
Fuck Bush. Fuck the Faux News Network. Fuck Tasers!
Keep up the good work
Denis Bonneau
I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincerest disgust at the recent editorial in the Collegian.
By running this editorial, it is clear that your editorial staff has little understanding regarding the standards of journalism.
Rather than put forth clear and concise views about issues facing the students and community of Colorado State University, you and your editorial board have exemplified all that is wrong with modern day journalism.
Your act has gone beyond the walls of the university to once again pain the journalism profession as one that is without direction or purpose.
While I fully support your First Amendment right to print any editorial you choose, I feel it is my obligation to also exercise that right to ensure that none of my companies university-oriented advertising is directed to your paper.
I further intend to exercise that right by reaching out to your advertisers so that they are keenly aware of my abhorrence for this blatant abuse of journalistic principles and my lack of support for any organization which supports your paper through it's advertising dollars.
Greg Buchanan
Winter Springs, Florida
I found the potty mouth editorial regarding the President of the US the works of small-minded boys and girls.
Evidently the editors of the CSU student newspaper never really grew up to be men or women prior to entering CSU.
A return to kindergarten would provide an appropriate education before you embark on the road to adulthood. I suspect your parents and elementary school teachers were not successful in teaching you to be civilized.
You have sullied your names and most especially the name of your university.
I fully support your right to free speech. When we are not allowed to publish or express our thoughts, this country will be in some very serious trouble.
Fuck Bush. Fuck the Faux News Network. Fuck Tasers!
Keep up the good work
Denis Bonneau
I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincerest disgust at the recent editorial in the Collegian.
By running this editorial, it is clear that your editorial staff has little understanding regarding the standards of journalism.
Rather than put forth clear and concise views about issues facing the students and community of Colorado State University, you and your editorial board have exemplified all that is wrong with modern day journalism.
Your act has gone beyond the walls of the university to once again pain the journalism profession as one that is without direction or purpose.
While I fully support your First Amendment right to print any editorial you choose, I feel it is my obligation to also exercise that right to ensure that none of my companies university-oriented advertising is directed to your paper.
I further intend to exercise that right by reaching out to your advertisers so that they are keenly aware of my abhorrence for this blatant abuse of journalistic principles and my lack of support for any organization which supports your paper through it's advertising dollars.
Greg Buchanan
Winter Springs, Florida
I found the potty mouth editorial regarding the President of the US the works of small-minded boys and girls.
Evidently the editors of the CSU student newspaper never really grew up to be men or women prior to entering CSU.
A return to kindergarten would provide an appropriate education before you embark on the road to adulthood. I suspect your parents and elementary school teachers were not successful in teaching you to be civilized.
You have sullied your names and most especially the name of your university.
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Michael Yeager
posted 9/26/07 @ 4:01 AM MST
I keep reading people's comments saying that they think that the collegian thinks that Bush was responsible for the taser incident. Learn how to read into something people not just what is written! "Taser this" (in my mind) means you cannot taser everyone who speaks out against a majority or who speaks the unpopular opinion!
Kendra Wiig
posted 9/26/07 @ 7:29 AM MST
"I am just exercising my rights and will do everything within my power to convince my business associates never to hire a graduate from your school."
Says, Jim Uribe, President of North American Business Consultants. (Continued…)
Victoria Evelyn
posted 9/26/07 @ 12:04 PM MST
So McSwine, did you really think that you were going to be able to pass off those four words last week as "an editorial"?
That wasn't an editorial. (Continued…)
George Bush
posted 9/26/07 @ 12:24 PM MST
You guys just don't understand how hard it is to be in my position. How can I please the entire nation? It's hard enough making sure all my friends are well taken care of! I'm asking for a little compassion here Colorado. (Continued…)
Victoria Elders
posted 9/26/07 @ 12:58 PM MST
There isn't a day gone by since George Bush lied his way to war that I haven't had the exact same thought in my head. Every time I see him smirk his way across Faux News, every time he holds a "town meeting" with hand-picked kool-aid drinkers, every time he pretends to have served honorably during Vietnam, every time he pretends Iraq isn't a morass sucking the life from our military, every time he fails in the most mundane responsibilities of his office and with every flag-draped coffin that comes home under cover of darkness; I think it. (Continued…)
Jim Earl
posted 9/26/07 @ 3:54 PM MST
Ms. Elders,
The editorial was declared to be an attempt to initiate a discussion on the First Amendment. Your assertions of President Bush, Iraq, and war profiteers have only tangential implications to the subject at hand: The scope of the First Amendment. (Continued…)
Craig Hawley
posted 9/26/07 @ 4:00 PM MST
To Dennis Bonneau,
Your parents must be very proud of your big college vocabulary. Your letter was both wrong juvenile. Oh yea that's right your just a little kid. (Continued…)
Craig Hawley
posted 9/26/07 @ 5:13 PM MST
Just a little refresher course for Mr. Bonneau. First of all freedom is not free. You have no rights , only those given you by guys like me in the Military willing to fight and die so that you can say F$%#. (Continued…)
Older and Wiser
posted 9/26/07 @ 5:14 PM MST
I guess my native state of Colorado is still hopelessly trapped in Republican Facism. Those goons who whipped the young reporter are today's equivalent of Hitler's storm troopers when they tried to silence any form of dissent under the guise of Law and Order!
In order to get a "true" and uncensored view of today's news look for Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now" program on Free Speech TV or LINK TV. (Continued…)
Rebekah West
posted 9/26/07 @ 10:47 PM MST
David-
Profanity is a stupid thing to waste free speech on, especailly if and when the right is actually endangered. If you have something to say, then say it! If not, get out of the way! You've been making us at CSU look like fools for the last 6 weeks, and this tops the cake. (Continued…)
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