YouTube: First Amendment Trampled Of Conservative Students

Palm Beach State College activities director Olivia Morris-Ford, a Facebook fan of President Barack Obama and filmmaker Michael Moore, booted conservative students from a rush event. Morris-Ford claimed they didn’t have permission to be on campus.

Morris-Ford’s assertion stands in conflict with evidence YAF state chairman Daniel Diaz has.   Diaz presented both a June 21 e-mail from student Christina Beattie to Morris-Ford requesting permission to be at the event and Beattie’s phone log from June 23, which shows a call from Morris-Ford. Beattie said Morris-Ford approved the request on that call.

When Diaz and YAF state vice chairman Eddie Shaffer arrived at the Sept. 7 event with Heritage research materials that included “Obama’s Second Stimulus,” “The Unsustainable Welfare State,” “The Obama Tax Hikes [4]” and “Obamacare: Hurting Those Who Need Health Care the Most”, Morris-Ford took just enough time to see the literature they planned to distribute to tell them to pack up and go home.

When Beattie joined Diaz and Shaffer, in a testy exchange caught on video, Morris-Ford said she never talked to Beattie on the phone.

YouTube video of exchange:

“I need you to move your stuff. Period,” Morris-Ford says on the video. “You are not authorized.”

When contacted at her office, Morris-Ford declined to comment on the incident. “There’s two sides to every story,” she said. “I would love to tell you, but I can’t.”

“This school appears to have a policy that requires any student or any student group to give 24 hours notice to the school before they intend to speak or distribute literature of any kind and then it gives the school complete discretion to decide whether they will permit students to speak or distribute literature or not,” Mattox said. “So if that is, in fact, the policy, and it appears that it is, that’s clearly unconstitutional.”

This activities director has no problem trampling students First Amendment right of free speech.  People like her and schools like this imperil America’s freedom.

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