Free speech? Fuck that!

The bill described here will be going up for vote in the Senate soon. It must be opposed. You know what to do.

House Resolution 3077 passed last fall. It included a provision to establish an advisory board to monitor campus international studies centers in order to ensure that they advance the national interest. While the law would apply to all federally funded institutes with an international focus, the target is clearly the nation's 17 centers for Middle East studies. The driving force behind this provision is the same group of conservative ideologues who have long promoted the war on Iraq and who support the extreme right-wing politics of the Sharon government in Israel. Their aim is to defend the foreign policy of this administration by stifling critical and informed discussion on U.S. campuses.

If this isn't legalized enforcement of government propaganda, then I don't know what is. And if this bill passes and the president signs it, I'll be more then happy to continue my studies in Canada.