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For Emphasis.

Monday, March 3rd, 2003

One paragraph from today’s column that I think gets lost in the length of the piece:

The irony in all of this is that the PIRGs disguise their scam under the “free speech” mantra. The USPIRG site makes the incredulous claim that forcing students to pay for causes they don’t support is protected by the First Amendment. Yet this same organization, on it’s campaign finance reform website, claims that voluntary contributions to political candidates isn’t protected. Go figure.

Yes, I know. It’s really obnoxious to blockquote yourself.

But it’s my website. Dammit.

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2 Responses to “For Emphasis.”

  1. #1 |  T.J. Brown |  March 4th, 2003 at 11:40 am

    Not to wax about my IU days too much, but the way they tried starting up in 1995 was as bad as you wrote. I wrote a column about it in the IDS that appeared in the paper of exam week and the guy running the InPIRG circus called me at 7 a.m. (woke me up), and I told him I was in no shape to argue.

    I wound up going to my exams and this guy spent the whole morning screaming into my answering machine. Used up 30 minutes of tape. Wish I had kept it.

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