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♪ >> tucker: americas college campuses were designed to be havens for free expression, and for good reason. free speech is a requirement for free thought, and free thought essential for universities, no other reason to have it. but universities where those freedoms under the gravest i threat. a new foundation for individual rights in education report finds that 90%ti of american college campuses have some kind of speech code that restrictsht wht students are allowed to say, and by extension, t...

>> tucker: in the speech code that all of us live under, the only religion you can attack is christianity. if she subbed in another world great religion, other abrahamic faiths, she would be out of the race tomorrow. why is that? >> thats tricky. r i look at all the text that reference christianity that she had sent out and she did, you are correct, to lead up to the story that shed tweeted about a mother who killed her son because he was gay, that certainly is radical and wrong, reprehensible. ...

Well, there is no defending tha that. >> of course. >> tucker: in the speech code that all of us live under, the only religion you can attack is christianity. if she stopped in another world great religion, other abraham make the fates, she would be out of the race tomorrow. why is that? >> thats tricky. i look at all the text that reference christianity that she had sent out and she did, you are correct, to lead up to the story that shed tweeted about a mother who killed her son because he was ...

>> heather: the point you just made, i found an interesting the phrase the attorney general had for that, he called it the hecklers veto and thats when any group threatened to protest, threaten to disrupt a speech and as a result, their invitation is withdrawn, some thing like that. do you think that free speech is under attack or is conservative speech under attack more? >> when any of you a shout out, thats an attack on free speech. lately we are seeing more cases where conservative views are ...

Tear down the statues and rename buildings and get rid of the stuff that indicated all of these bad things about history. and they did -- so in part they thought they wanted to deem upon straight to these students were on your side. were with you. now the students are turning on them. all of these little vipers you have been raising to think about these things in terms of speech code. it is like the scene with the joker and the batman saying you have all of these rules. you think they are going ...

Lukenknoff is here from washington with some of the worst offenders. >> thanks for having me, tucker. >> he cleanings are supposed to be bags of free speech. we give tenure to professors so they can exercise free speech: give me some examples of restrictions on campus. >> well, when it comes to the speech codes, there is good news and there is bad news. the good news is this has been the seventh year in the row in which the the percentage of speech code on college campuses has declind, thats onl...

I am wondering about where your employment status bumped up against your spree speech. >> some of the gresest in the country is by employers and not the government. youre employer can have much more control on what you say or dont say. >> you cant be arrested, be u yo can be fired. >> which is moralistic. so the real speech code in the country is set more by employers, and often its more oppressive than anything the government does. its often employers. >> so when we come to that then, i guess p...

Blessings of liberty. for you thats the most important. >> thats right. the constitution says in the first sentence liberty is a blessing. it does not say the same thing about democracy or government in general. the constitution was written to protect liberty against government whether it be a democratic form of government or any other kind of government. >> it also says ensure domestic tranquility. that could be speech code, decency code. it says promote the general welfare. obamacare. but that...

To basically chill speech with which he disagrees politically. prime example is the i.r.s. scandal where basically he was using the power of the internal revenue service to provide special scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups because he wanted to shut them down and stop them from speaking prior to the 2012 election. hes doing the same thing with the universities. hes got a new speech code that universities have to abide by which basically says that any utterance that offends someo...

♪ ♪ >> paul: well, another case of government overreach. this time on the college campus in response to some serious allegations of sexual assaults. department of education and justice last month issued a joint letter to the university of montana that my guest says this week amounts to a dangerous speech code for colleges across the country. gregg is the president for foundation of individual rights in education and author of the book "unlearning liberty, campus censorship." i asked him why....