Editor,
As most of us have seen the controversial exhibit of the anti-freedom group ironically named "Justice For All," we ask ourselves about the idea of freedom. What does it mean and to whom does it apply? As liberals we believe in the freedoms that the Bill of Rights guarantees to all Americans, thus the right to express one's political beliefs even when they is wrong.
Former President Griswold of Yale University once said, "Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones." Let this hideous exhibit be an educational element to our "liberal learning" as university students.
Although the message that Justice For All is making is a false idea of freedom, we must allow them to express it. In many ways by allowing them to have this exhibit on our campus it gives us the ability to see through their false ideas.
We seriously doubt that anyone who is pro-choice is pro-abortion. And remember that there is a big difference!
If we could wave a wand and eradicate the need for abortion altogether we would without a doubt. As the pictures depict, the procedure is grotesque and we ought to reduce the necessity of abortion by having adequate sex education in our junior and high schools.
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We ought to teach our adolescent children about safe sex and what the results can be when you have unsafe sex. Instead of doing the greater good, Justice For All would rather make a political statement.
We get sick and tired of radical conservative groups, such as Justice For All, going about making political statements without any intention to resolve the issue at hand. These groups would rather make it a political issue and gain financial and public support for their agenda by using scare-tactics to force Americans into thinking a certain way.
Dean of Students Randy Boeglin wrote last week a letter to the Daily Lobo, "Community members can take alternate routes if they wish to avoid the exhibit." Why couldn't we have put this atrocity to freedom in some building where it would not disrupt the everyday life of students?
As ASUNM senators, we are not asking the University administration to censor such exhibits in the future, but are asking that they be more prudent in the placement of such controversial exhibits in high traffic areas of the University.
Paul C. Campbell and Tim Reed
ASUNM Senators
