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yellow dahlia

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Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:11 PM Mar 2025

Academic institutions and powerful law firms cave, as "We the People" are the ones who continue to fight [View all]

for our Constitutional Republic, and freedom of speech, and the rule of law.

The pillars of our democracy need to hold. We can't do it all by ourselves. "We the People" and the a thriving democracy built these institutions. These institutions have the money to shield them and strong foundations on which to stand, and yet some of them are giving in to extortion and siege tactics.

As Columbia and Dartmouth cave to a shakedown, they betray all their benefactors and the generations that have contributed to their academic greatness. It is difficult to accept that a law firm would consider capitulation, rather than standing up for the rule of law.

Here we are - We the People - trying to put together the next protest with nothing to shield us, other than our precious freedom of speech. Meanwhile academic institutions and law firms are willing to hand over that precious freedom of speech. Every time they do so they devalue its force for the rest of us. Shame!

We don't have the money and protections around us and yet we are willing to stand up for our Democracy and fight on. By capitulating these institutions make our job harder. How dare they?!

When they bow to the extortion and mob boss tactics of the grifter and the mRAT, they don't just hurt themselves. They normalize the mafia state, and they put targets on the backs of other individuals and institutions.

Someone should have told them - every time you acquiesce to a sociopath, you empower them even more...and more...and more.

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