Time to start blogging...

So I've decided to start blogging again. Maybe it will help me sort out all the thoughts in my head that I usually leave unsaid. Maybe it will help me become less of a stress case because I won't have to carry those thoughts around with me anymore.

My first thought is in regards to the free-speech and Pro-Life debacle at the U of C this past week. Since when is showing horrific posters to people speech? Doesn't something stop being a right when it impedes on other people's rights?

What about my right to get to class without being bombarded with images I don't want to see? By the time I come across the "Caution" barricades I can already see the posters. And really the posters haven't changed in the last 3 years, so do they really need to set them up facing outwards again?

To all those who are screaming "freedom of speech" at the University for threatening to arrest these people, and claim that there should be this "sort of debate" going on on a University campus - when was the last time you were part of the university community? Probably a long freaking time. Who are you to prescribe what should be occurring in one? Healthy debate is good yes, but subjecting unwilling participants to view graphic and disturbing displays is a whole 'nother bag of potato chips. So just shut up and let the University alone. You probably never even saw the posters, but you heard them crying out for their right to free speech and felt the need to jump right in.

What about my rights as a passerby that are being infringed on? The SU and University are in support of the rights of free speech, but they also recognize the rights of the passerby. Thank you SU and the University for protecting the rights of your students! I stand by your decision. For those on the outside of the situation who really have no idea what's going on, please just stay on the outside of the decision.