Our country has not done well with the whole “if we think you say or think anti-American stuff you lose your rights” thing. Alien & Sedition Acts, WW2 internment, McCarthyism, the various trumped-up charges MLK was arrested for, etc., etc.
Our country has not done well with the whole “if we think you say or think anti-American stuff you lose your rights” thing. Alien & Sedition Acts, WW2 internment, McCarthyism, the various trumped-up charges MLK was arrested for, etc., etc.
No, obviously I don't believe that. I'm sorry if that's how I came across. I'm talking about individuals coming to our country on student visas then through their ACTIONS should have their visas revoked.
The far left has always been opposed to free speech (and the far right, i.e. McCarthyism) -- when I was in college (UC Santa Cruz) I was editor of the alternative conservative newspaper. It was a monthly newsmagazine format and we raised money from businesses in the community to public. We'd put our copies where the campus allowed free publications to be left, and then witnessed people going around, collecting our magazine, and throwing them away. It was an important lesson for me at 19.
My problem is when people come to this country as guests and then work to undermine our institutions, NOT through their words, but through their actions. And that's why I don't have a problem revoking visas when warranted. But like I said -- I don't know what the law is on student visas. A student from a foreign country is a lot different than an American citizen chanting anti-American things.
Our country has not done well with the whole “if we think you say or think anti-American stuff you lose your rights” thing. Alien & Sedition Acts, WW2 internment, McCarthyism, the various trumped-up charges MLK was arrested for, etc., etc.
No, obviously I don't believe that. I'm sorry if that's how I came across. I'm talking about individuals coming to our country on student visas then through their ACTIONS should have their visas revoked.
The far left has always been opposed to free speech (and the far right, i.e. McCarthyism) -- when I was in college (UC Santa Cruz) I was editor of the alternative conservative newspaper. It was a monthly newsmagazine format and we raised money from businesses in the community to public. We'd put our copies where the campus allowed free publications to be left, and then witnessed people going around, collecting our magazine, and throwing them away. It was an important lesson for me at 19.
My problem is when people come to this country as guests and then work to undermine our institutions, NOT through their words, but through their actions. And that's why I don't have a problem revoking visas when warranted. But like I said -- I don't know what the law is on student visas. A student from a foreign country is a lot different than an American citizen chanting anti-American things.