http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041225/ap_on_re_us/academic_freedom

Came across the above while browsing. I think it's absolutely absurd that naked thuggery (including electronic harrasment and death threats) is being succesfully masked as a campaign for academic freedom. I can understand why some conservative students may feel that it is difficult for them to obtain a good grade in certain classes; conservativism does not encourage independent thinking or intellectual rigour, leaving its exponents peculiarly ill equipped to think cogently, argue persuasively or write effectively. Another absurdity, of course, is that Israelis possess greater academic freedom to discuss their own country than Americans have to examine either the US OR Israel. To live in America is to live in a contradiction.