Censorship on the left

Many people associate censorship in this country with the holier-than-thou religious right, and this stereotype is far from unfounded. But censorship is most definitely a bipartisan issue, and those on the left have also seen fit to engage in censorship when offense is given to some group or cause favored by the Politically Correct.

Such is the case with the daily paper of my alma mater, UIUC. The Daily Illini has seen fit to fire, by email no less, its Editor in Chief, Acton Gorton, for the high crime of daring to publish the Danish Mohammed cartoons. The article linked to in the title pretty much says it all.

I have always been proud to have gotten my degree from UIUC, but this action is nothing short of shameful. The cowardly weasels involved in the firing should be ashamed, and should be required to take a course in First Amendment freedoms. Such overt censorship has no place in newspaper publishing, especially for a paper claiming to represent a student body as diverse and large as that found at UIUC.