Kenny Boy Paxton is trying to gut free speech for UNT students. On the UNT story, the Denton Wrecked Chronic/KERA have the info the pablum Trib at the first link does not — Mary-Catherine Clark's original video does NOT have any "cheering" students in it, AND she is a member of the local Turning Point chapter. It's also funny to have a wingnut talk about "emotional distress," especially with her last name being "Hallmark." Frankly, given no cheering students in the vid, the way the Chronic/KERA describe it, it sounds like a set-up video. That's added to by UNT's student newspaper, which has "allegedly" on her confronting other students and adds that state Reps. Andy Hopper and Shelly Luther have now inserted themselves, with Hopper also threatening a cut in state funding. Oh, by the way, that would be a bill of attainder, unconstitutional under both Texas and U.S. constitutions.
KERA has Kenny Boy openly engaging in hypocrisy, too:
He said UNT officials have to enforce their policies regarding student misconduct, employee conduct, student absences and free speech.
Per the old "free speech for me but not for thee," I think the likes of Paxton are so blinded by ideology, political scheming or both that they may not even truly grasp that they're attacking free speech.
There's also a lot of "alleged" statements by Kenny Boy at all links, as he's clearly trying to buffalo UNT.
All of this is happening even as Strangeabbott names an "ombudsman" (scare quotes) to investigate higher education ethics issues.
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