Van Tuinen believes his right to distribute political pamphlets is enshrined in the very political pamphlet he was trying to distribute: the Constitution.
The California community college student who was prevented from passing out copies of the Constitution — on Constitution Day, of all days — is now fighting back in court.
Robert Van Tuinen is suing Modesto Junior College over the September 17th incident during which a campus security officer hauled Tuinen before a college administrator who told him that he could not distribute leaflets on campus without a permit. Modesto has a designated “free speech zone” where students may pass out papers, but the tiny square of concrete was booked that day.
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“[MJC administrators] really don’t see that what they are doing is preventing the free speech of students,” Van Tuinen told The Daily Caller.
MJC President Jill Stearns sent Robert Van Tuinen a letter apologizing for how he was treated. Still, the college did not change its policies, and instead criticized the media for blowing the incident out of proportion — leaving Van Tuinen little choice but to sue.
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