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Posted by SMAZ on Tue Mar 31 16:57:46 2015 fiogf49gjkf0d this is how a Christianist America will look like. I'm glad Liberty "University" did this. It's the first real education those students ever got there. ------------------------------- CAPTIVE AUDIENCE - The Week - Catherine Garcia Students upset they had to attend Ted Cruz's Liberty University event or face a fine While Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) received a very warm welcome from most of the 10,000 Liberty University students present at his presidential campaign kickoff, not all were happy that they had to attend the event or face a fine. One of those annoyed students was junior Eli McGowan, who runs the Students for Rand club in support of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). "We were upset about it," he told BuzzFeed. "We know that Ted Cruz knows this and it's a smart idea to have a captive audience to announce your campaign. To have 10,000 people show up. Most students take this as a tacit endorsement. People on Facebook have been saying, oh the board wouldn't have allowed him to come if they didn't think he was the right candidate." Convocations are held three times a week, and all students who live on campus — there are more than 7,000, according to McGowan — are required to attend; those who don't have to pay $10. The school's president, Jerry Falwell Jr., said that just because Cruz was making his declaration at Liberty University during a convocation, it should not be viewed as an endorsement. One student, who asked not to be identified because she is a Democrat, told BuzzFeed she viewed this as a seal of approval for Cruz regardless of what Falwell had to say. "At our school everyone is a Republican," she said. "You aren't allowed to have any Democratic groups. That's why I'm doing this anonymously because people will come after you. He told people what they wanted to hear and they are endorsing him, that’s what they are doing."
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by Olog-hai* on Tue Mar 31 18:30:00 2015, in response to Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine, posted by SMAZ on Tue Mar 31 16:57:46 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d One-person source? and from a pro-abortion faction at that? It's not specific to Cruz, BTW.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by italianstallion on Tue Mar 31 20:21:13 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Mar 31 18:30:00 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d This was widely reported in all sorts of media.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by WillD on Tue Mar 31 20:44:59 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Mar 31 18:30:00 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d What part isn't accurate? Do you deny students have to pay a $10 fine if they don't attend convocation? Surely you're not so detached from reality to deny Ted Cruz was there. Who cares if it was specific to Cruz? He took advantage of a mandatory school event to announce his candidacy before a room any uninformed viewer would take to be packed with supporters when nothing could be further from the truth.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by R2ChinaTown on Wed Apr 1 06:46:38 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by WillD on Tue Mar 31 20:44:59 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d I can see why this could be upsetting to you.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by WillD on Wed Apr 1 08:28:27 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by R2ChinaTown on Wed Apr 1 06:46:38 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d College students being used as political props under threat of financial penalty does not upset you?
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by orange blossom special on Wed Apr 1 10:08:11 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by italianstallion on Tue Mar 31 20:21:13 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d lol
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by orange blossom special on Wed Apr 1 10:08:54 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by WillD on Wed Apr 1 08:28:27 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d It wasn't upsetting the last two election cycles for me and you though. Why the change of heart?
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Apr 1 15:47:54 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by orange blossom special on Wed Apr 1 10:08:11 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d First of all, it's Falwell's university; second, it's private; third, the requirements are in black and white, which if one matriculates there must agree to first; and fourth, nobody forces anyone to go to Liberty U.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by R2ChinaTown on Wed Apr 1 16:28:15 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by WillD on Wed Apr 1 08:28:27 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d College students being used as political props in 2008 and 2012 didn't upset me either. Is it just that they are being used by the Republicans now that upsets you?
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Apr 1 16:46:10 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by R2ChinaTown on Wed Apr 1 16:28:15 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d If someone wants to be used as a political prop, then fine, but apparently these students did not consent to their use as such.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Apr 1 16:47:12 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Apr 1 15:47:54 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d Are you defending "Liberty" "University" because it's your alma mater?
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by R2ChinaTown on Wed Apr 1 16:52:21 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Apr 1 16:46:10 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d Wasn't it the policy of the university that student attendance was mandatory or a fine was imposed? Sort of like Obamacare. I'd say.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Apr 1 16:59:44 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by R2ChinaTown on Wed Apr 1 16:52:21 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, it is sort of like ObamaCare, except that students who didn't attend the Cruz speech were not free-riding on a benefit that attendees paid for.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by R2ChinaTown on Wed Apr 1 17:46:39 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Apr 1 16:59:44 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d True.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by orange blossom special on Wed Apr 1 18:12:00 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Apr 1 15:47:54 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d There's also no such thing as a forced forum where one has to pay a fine for not showing up. Whoever thought this nonsense up has never been to nor seen a private school and is projecting Obama's election campaign requirements on them.
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Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate
Posted by Nilet on Thu Apr 2 11:22:14 2015, in response to Re: Liberty University Students Forced to See Ted Cruz or Pay a Fine? Not Accurate, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Mar 31 18:30:00 2015. fiogf49gjkf0d and from a pro-abortion faction at that? Do you believe abortion should be legal or illegal?
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