{"id":649,"date":"2023-03-21T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=649"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:41:16","slug":"guest-speaker-at-stanford-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/03\/21\/guest-speaker-at-stanford-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Speaker at Stanford University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With pride, together we observe one must meet reason with reason.
For in that way we learn to live with others where otherwise 
in lesser times 
one would find reason met with power.  
So –<\/strong> what is showcased here in the Hallowed Halls 
of Stanford Law
where speech is said to be free? 
Upon the visit of a judge to speak upon a topic quite benign 
with no dispute to find 
instead found protests on crimes of judgment.
But truly crimes? Crimes of past judgments made? Who might be the judge of that? 
– for if speech is not free to be heard  
how is one to know the truth? 
Is there one to tell us?
Jeers and public shaming and wishes for rape upon his daughters 
were the shouts 
from the crowd before he began to speak. 
And never did he speak that day for the U.S. Marshalls amidst the mayhem
thought it best 
to safely take him away. 
The website of those Hallowed Halls of Learning touts its 
“collegial culture” 
in which “collaboration”
and idea exchange 
“are essential to life and learning.” 
But what did reason meet that day in the Hallowed Halls of Stanford Law?
not collaboration, 
or idea exchange. 
Therefore – the essentials to life and learning are not offered here? Then where is the value 
of Stanford Law 
and its Hallowed Halls?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The Random Poet:03192023)
www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<<<<selected sources on Stanford Law: reuters.com-Nate Raymond&Karen Sloan-3\/10\/23; bloomberglaw.com-Vivi Chen-3\/15\/23; wsj.com-Stuart Duncan-3\/18\/23; internet search-Stanford Law protest-3\/9\/23; additional sources on the suppression of free speech on university campuses include: alumnifreespeechalliance.org; cornellfreespeech.com; princetoniansforfreespeech.com; thejeffersoncouncil.com; academicfreedom.org >>>><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATTENTION university alumni.\u00a0 How does your university compare to the happenings at Stanford?<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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