Your letter writer concerning GOP legislators and Millersville University is actually the one who misses the point.
This situation is not about free speech. It is about state sponsored and state endorsed speech. If Bill Ayers was speaking at F&M or Elizabethtown College, it would be an issue for their Boards of Trustees, not for the public.
And if Bill Ayers was speaking voluntarily at Buchanan Park from a soapbox, this would be a non-issue. Protesters could do their thing with the same freedom of speech that he would be exercising.
This is about the taxpayers of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and a State University.
You might be willing to embrace his expressed views that exploding bombs in public places is a legitimate form of protest, but many are not. And since Millersville is a State University, the taxpayers’ and their Representatives’ views count.
