ANOTHER GREAT ADVANCE IN EDUCATION – AT 8:16 A.M. ET:  The stories are coming more and more frequently.  We are teaching our children, at least some of them, that freedom isn't terribly important.  From Campus Reform: 

The University of California, Irvine has suspended its College Republicans chapter for an entire year after the group hosted controversial conservative pundit Milo Yiannopoulos.

Breitbart News reports that a UCI administrator recently requested to meet with leaders of the CRs, during which CR President Ariana Rowlands suggested the possibility of bringing Yiannopoulos back to campus.

Just four hours after the meeting, the group received an email stating that it had been suspended for an entire year.

The email, however, apparently cited the group’s failure to provide proof of insurance for hired private security guards as grounds for suspension—making no mention of Yiannopoulos’ appearance on campus.

As Breitbart notes, the group had previously hosted David Horowitz on campus without being required to provide proof of insurance, nor was it penalized for not doing so.

Nonetheless, after Yiannopoulos’ visit to campus, the group has now lost its club status, meaning it will not be able to hold meetings, reserve space, or host events on campus.

Even before the event, the administration had attempted to complicate the process by requiring the CRs to dish out an additional $1,000 in security fees on the grounds that the group was not officially affiliated with the school—a claim that was later challenged by the CRs and eventually dropped.

COMMENT:  This reminds me of the tactics once used to prevent blacks from voting in the South – the poll tax, the rigged literacy test, the legal complications.  I do not see the so-called American Civil Liberties Union jumping into action.  It ceased being interested in civil liberties years ago, unless you're an approved group.

These anti-freedom tactics are growing.  We now have the spectacle of some campuses employing a "bias response team" to respond immediately to any complaint by any minority.  Hurt feelings have become a Constitutional crisis. 

Compare please to what American troops in the field have to endure every day.  I don't hear them complaining.

June 22, 2016