Sticks, Stones, and Slogans: Why I Will Not Be Deterred
By Charles Johnson at 1:50 PM
I have been called many things in my short time on this campus. Let’s run down part of that list, shall we? We’re about to get to the meanest thing that’s been said of my politics yet and my response to it in the next post.

Here are just some of the more recent examples of statements that some members of the community have said about me.

A “horrible person” by some gentleman at the Athenaeum.
A “corporate shill” by a Pomona professor during a “discussion” of Coca-Cola.
“Naive” by another Pomona professor
A “Fascist,” a “neo-Nazi,” a “hate-monger,” and a member of the “Hitler Youth” by my unoriginal emailing readers.
My views, based upon sound economics, were completely misstated by Sarah Burgess of The Student Life and someone recently asked me — serious or not, I honestly couldn’t tell — what I would do if someone “kicked me in the balls.”

I replied that in this nation of laws whenever someone attacks you we call that “assault” and that I would let the police and the judiciary handle it from there.

Of course all of these things are the price we pay for freedom and I would pay them over and over again to have even half the freedom we have in this country.

So go ahead, my friend, call me a “fascist” or whatever you want. Enjoy that First Amendment, but remember that I too retain a First Amendment right and that I shall be exercising mine, especially if you threaten me.