In Defense of Student Who Pied Friedman
On April 22, Brown University student Molly Little threw a pie at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in protest of his pro-war, pro-corporate views, and the prominence he receives in promulgatin... continue reading »
"This penalty is clearly excessive. Institution or Affiliation Stony Brook University"
"Good luck fighting this absurd expulsion Molly"
"Molly should be honored not penalized."
"Molly Little's act was clearly an act of civil disobedience. Expulsion from Brown University is both illiberal and extreme!"
"Brown: lighten up! Look at the balance here: Thomas Friedman - a man of limited imagination, but boundless ego - receives a face full of whipped cream that halts his speech for 5 minutes; Friedman was a significant part of the drumbeat for a war that was "
"Surely, Brown University can come up with a creative, diversionary path that will, (a) satisfy the institution's need to respond and send an appropriate message to the community regarding this event, (b) take advantage of the extraordinary qualities, incl"
"would you have prefered showering him with "depleted" uranium like the victims of his policies in yugoslavia, iraq and afghanistan? unlike d.u., and the blood on his hands, the pie can be washed off."
"The pie looks better on his face than the mustache."
"everyone makes mistakes"
"The punishment does not fit the "crime." Brown is more concerned about the egg on its face than the pie on Friedman's Institution or Affiliation Schoolteacher, Lewis, Iowa"
"While I agree with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that those who engage in civil disobedience ought to be prepared to serve the consequences of that disobedience, I think the punishment of Molly Little is excessive. I believe she is being punish"
"Friedman is a warmonger who encouraged a criminal war that has killed about 1 million Iraqis and displaced 4 million more - not to mention the 4000 dead Americans and the many wounded! And for that Friedman only got a pie in the face? If Brown wishes to p"
"This is not the Brown I attended when students took over University Hall in 1974. Institution or Affiliation Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild, Brown U. 1977"
"В Institution or Affiliation Brown Univerity"
"Brown's action is disproportional and unfair Institution or Affiliation Private sector"
