Same Sex Student Clubs Consider Legal Action Against Harvard University

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Massachusetts state law extends constitutional protections to non government actors. MGL Chap. 265, Sec 37, applies to the person, The President and Fellows of Harvard College. More important than having a law school "on retainer" is too many judges in the First Circuit and Massachusetts state courts are Harvard Law graduates and university degree holders. They have a habit of allowing exceptions to laws for the university.

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Lake and other lawyers agreed that Harvard’s status as a private institution grants it more leeway than a public university would have in a similar situation.
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“Because Harvard is private, its predominate relationship with students is contractual,” Lake said. “It does give a private institution the right to set certain standards for students that might not be acceptable at a public institutions.
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“Last time I checked, you don’t sue someone who has a law school on retainer,” James M. Myers ’77, said.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/5/11/clubs-weigh-legal-options/

Clubs Weigh Potential Legal Action Against Harvard Policy
By C. RAMSEY FAHS, 

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

May 10, 2016

Women At Harvard University Object To Forcing Them To Admit Men To Their Clubs

Does "Title IX" trump the Right to Associate guaranteed by the US Constitution? And the Mass Civil Rights Statute Chapter 265, Sec. 37 "No person, whether or not acting under color of law, shall by force or threat of force, willfully injure, intimidate or interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate or interfere with, or oppress or threaten any other person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the constitution or laws of the commonwealth or by the constitution or laws of the United States."



http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/5/9/female-clubs-sororities-response/

Sorority, Club Women Denounce New Policy on Facebook
By C. RAMSEY FAHS and DEREK G. XIAO

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
May 8, ,2016

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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/5/10/women-oppose-sanctions/

Hundreds of Women Protest Harvard Sanctions
By C. RAMSEY FAHS

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
May 9, 2016

Feds Raid Texas Political Meeting

If they're concerned about illegal courts, why not arrest the Sharia courts operating in Texas?

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Members of the Republic of Texas, a secession movement dedicated to restoring Texas as an independent constitutional republic, had gathered Feb. 14 in a Bryan, Texas, meeting hall along with public onlookers. They were debating issues of currency, international relations and celebrating the birthday of one of their oldest members. The group, which describes itself as “congenial and unimposing,” maintains a small working government, including official currency, congress and courts.
According to MySanAntonio.com: “Minutes into the meeting a man among the onlookers stood and moved to open the hall door, letting in an armed and armored force of the Bryan Police Department, the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office, agents of the Texas district attorney, the Texas Rangers and the FBI.
“In the end, at least 20 officers corralled, searched and fingerprinted all 60 meeting attendees, before seizing all cellphones and recording equipment in a Valentine’s Day 2015 raid on the Texas separatist group.”
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“You can’t just let people go around filing false documents to judges trying to make them appear in front of courts that aren’t even real courts,” Hierholzer, who led the operation, told the Houston Chronicle.
“The Republic has a lengthy list of qualms with the federal government, among them that Texas was illegally annexed in 1845,” wrote TeaParty.org. “But most of their complaints have to do with the behavior of the American legislature and executive. Robert Wilson, a senator in the Republic, equated politicians in Washington, D.C., to the ‘kings and emperors’ of the past, and sees Texas independence as part of a worldwide movement for local control.”
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Hierholzer determined a “show of force” consisting of officers from city, county state and federal law enforcement to serve a search warrant for an alleged misdemeanor crime was appropriate due to the potential for physical resistance by the group.
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The raid has angered many people. “The tactics used went well beyond what was necessary to address a few individuals over a matter of disputed paperwork,” reported Information Liberation. “It is clear that full-blown raid was performed to intimidate and harass every member of the group. … The irony of the situation is that the thuggish tactics employed by the police and federal government actually validate the concerns of the members of the Republic of Texas and other Americans who would prefer independence from the United States federal government.”
No arrests were made, and the case is still under investigation.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/feds-raid-texas-political-meeting/#PokDUHViu5JGcJBM.99

FEDS RAID TEXAS POLITICAL MEETING
Fingerprint, photograph all attendees, seize phones
March 1, 2015

Convention of People Who Hear Voices

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Recently, Waddingham and more than 200 other voice-hearers from around the world gathered in Thessaloniki, Greece, for the sixth annual World Hearing Voices Congress, organised by Intervoice, an international network of people who hear voices and their supporters. They reject the traditional idea that the voices are a symptom of mental illness. They recast voices as meaningful, albeit unusual, experiences, and believe that potential problems lie not in the voices themselves but in a person’s relationship with them.
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The road to this form of recovery often begins in small support groups run by the worldwide Hearing Voices Network (HVN). Founded in the Netherlands in 1987, it allows members to share their stories and coping mechanisms – for example, setting appointments to talk with the voices, so that the voice-hearer can function without distraction the rest of the day – and above all gives voice-hearers a sense of community, as people rather than patients.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/the-enemy-within-people-who-hear-voices-in-their-heads-are-being-encouraged-to-talk-back-10001499.html

The enemy within: People who hear voices in their heads are being encouraged to talk back
WILLIAM LEE ADAMS
Sunday 25 January 2015

Independent (UK)

Eagan Opposes First Amendment Rights

Eagan says, "thousands of Americans have died fighting there [Iraq] and in Afghanistan.

Many have committed suicide.

Who wants more of that?"

600,000 died in the Civil War. Would Eagan prefer it was not fought? How many servicemen took their own lives after taking psychiatric chemicals pushed by the drug companies? The drug-company-controlled-FDA requires a warning that the drugs cause suicidal thoughts. Here's another example of Eagan opposing First Amendment Rights, i.e., the Right to Associate. Isn't that what the lefty unions in Wisconsin demand with their moonbat supporters in Taxachusetts?
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1324656

Backward march

Eagan"> By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald
Sunday, March 20, 2011