J. David McSwane Needs Our Help
Mr. McSwane needs help as he defends himself and his job as editor of a college newspaper. Seems he’s offended a whole bunch of Republicans, and others, I suppose, who are offended too easily.
Mr. McSwane is the student editor of the Colorado State student newspaper, the Rocky Mountain Collegian. Mr. McSwane and the editorial Board were upset with Bush, so they wrote out a four word editorial. “Taser this. [Expletive] Bush.” OK, if that’s an implied threat I’m not to pleased with it, but I count it as an exercise in free speech. College kids are old enough to exercise that right, in my view. Now Mr. McSwane has been asked to step down, and he’s refusing to do so, waiting instead for the paper’s Board to fire him. From Editor and Publisher:
McSwane said the newspaper’s student editors decided to use the obscenity because they believe CSU students are apathetic about their freedom of speech and other rights.
“We thought the best way to illustrate that point was to use our freedoms,” he said.
The editors chose not to seek advice from the newspaper’s professional advisers to protect them from the controversy they knew the editorial would cause, McSwane said.
The Board of Student Communication, which oversees the Collegian and other student media at the university, plans to discuss the editorial when it meets Wednesday.
The President of Colorado State University encourages folks to extend their opinions to editor@collegian.com. That’s McSwane’s email address. I’m thinking we need to help him out with every single bit of encouragement we can offer. There’s already scurrilous rumors that McSwane is threatening a lawsuit, which he’s had to deny. Yeah, the Bushies are taking shots at him through the rumor mill, and he needs support where he can get it. That’s us.
Please alert people at other blogs so that they can send messages of support as well.
Don’t give up the fight. I’m ready to pitch in with a little monetary help if you decide to start a legal defense fund. You’re a brave young man. Being provocative is not a crime. We need to agree to disagree and move on.
Mr.McSwane
Your choice of words shows your immaturity as a person whom will in the future realize that this was a mistake. Don’t lower your abilities that you may have for irresponsible statements such as this. “Free Speech ” is an important part of heritage, don’t abuse it with absurity. People will use you for their cause of the moment and care less about you after they have used you up. Buliding character will serve you for a successfull life,be a better man than this.JH
The use of “whom” is wrong there, buddy, Jeff.
Fuck David McSwane the coward who hides behind free speech. I think it’s just swell that the paper lost 50K in advertising revenues because the dumb fuck had to express his personal political views in such a high profile way. He is one selfish son of a bitch. What a dumb fuck. with any luck, someone will taser his ass. Hmmmmmmmmm.
McSwane is just a pompous, self-centered asshole who can’t even ‘fess up to the fact he was looking to offend and provoke, instead hiding behind his “free speech” bullshit. Now that he’s being held accountable he’s not so cocky and self-rightous anymore. Free speech brings with it responsibility and some judgemeny. He shows none. Fuck McSwane..thats MY exercise of free speech.
My but we’re getting a lot of hate here. Please note, we won’t be censoring here. We won’t even censor ignorance.
Free Speech means freedom for all … the profane, the ignorant, the obstreperous, the misspelt, the hateful — you name it. It is the same freedom that had the ACLU defending the rights of a pro-Nazi group to march in Skokie, IL. Remember? I do. In fact, I remember the Nazis — and The War.
McSwane may have done and/or said things that I … or you … would not. It doesn’t matter. Once we start drawing lines in the sand around Free Speech, we are all in danger of being buried in that sand.
By the way, I also believe that MoveOn.org’s ad should not have been brought to the floors of the congress. MoveOn too, have the right to say … and pay for … whatever they want in whatever venue they choose. There should have the same forbearance re their constitutional rights as there should be for McSwane.
As a body the congress should be upholding the constitution and its amendments. As individuals, they have every right to voice their opinions on any subject (Freedom of Speech, you know.) .
Mr. McSwane needs to learn that “legal” does not have the same meaning as “smart”.
And there are many people who should learn that “Freedom of Speech” does not have the same meaning as “Freedom from Criticism”.
I think this video is telling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AnzvFBqp_4
McSwane sounds very lucid and reasonable. His aim seems clear, unlike the distortions that people have been making. Also, this was not an autonomous action on his part. I was anti-McSwane, but I now feel I was mistaken. The kid is alright. In fact, I think he’s a great embodiment of the American spirit.
I say all this as an unapologetic Bush backer. I don’t feel that politics is an all or nothing proposition and I think we need bold, brave and energetic spirits on both sides of the political fence to solve the problems facing this country.
He actually did a quality undercover job with surprisingly wide ranging impact back in high school (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkHTYfqwooE). A lot of it with his own creativity and initiative. It’d be a waste for us to burn him.
Everyone knows McSwine is an anal cowboy who secretly enjoys thoughts of homosexual sex with the local Young Republicans, all of whom rejected him, so of course, JayDavid went back to the farm for sex with Farmer Johns goat. To bad the goat chased JayDavid off as well. Needing to PHUQUE something, JayDavid decided to “PHUQUE BUSH”, but even the damn vegatation thought JayDavid was a prick and rejected the needle dicked pigphuquer. JayDavid just hiding his real desires here. You should see his photoshop of Bush naked he likes to masturbate to while listening to “Personal Jesus” on his iPod.
Phuque Jay David McSwine!!
OK, here are some headlines we want to see in a student newspaper that are free speech as well:
Taser this: FUCK NIGGERS
Taser this: FUCK JEWS
Taser this: FUCK FEMINIST CUNTS
Taser this: FUCK: FUCK THE NIGGER OBAMA
Yep, I’m sure we’ll be seeing that in newspapers soon and I’m sure all the slime who want to “protect free speech” will be “defending the rights of the newspaper to say what they want to say in an editorial”.
I see pork for allah won’t stand up for his words, as McSwane did, signing this with a puerile pseudonym and not even leaving an email address. There’s the difference between what McSwane did and other speech that pork for allah proposes. McSwane had the cojones to stand behind his words, while Pork for Allah hides behind a stupid pseudonym and won’t even give his email address.
Fuck Cowards like Pork for Allah
All I have to say is that for all you thick skulled, closed minded, ignorant asses; Maybe it wouldnt hurt to get people thinking and then maybe people like yourselves would realize for once how horendously you have been swayed by the pro-bush media and have by choice remained ignorant to what a shit hole Pres. Bush is digging America into.
Thank you Mr. McSwane for having the courage to express your beliefs even knowing it would cause tremendous controversy. I honestly respect you for that.
I give you my total support and hope people can simply agree to disagree
Sincerly,
Brittany C.