Leftist Students Attack Free State Project Founder

Free State Project founder, Professor Jason P Sorens, graduate of Yale University, and currently faculty at the University of Buffalo, has come under attack in an on-campus email campaign by leftist group "Truth Out" for his libertarian views. Most specifically, the emails being sent to all UB students completely slander and defame the Free State Project, libertarians in general as "extreme right-wingers" who "care more about property than human beings".

From: Truth Out
To: *snip*
Subject: politics of the psc 341 professor
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:21:56 -0500

Hello

Ever wonder about the politics of our professor?

Jason Sorens, founder of the Free State Project, a group trying to get 20,000 people who plan to move out to rural New Hampshire, never pay taxes, never contribute anything of value to American society, and who value private property over human life. So they are taking their belongings and their guns out to New Hampshire to live in isolation from the rest of the American population. They are trying to privatize nearly everything and fundamentally dismantle public education and many social programs and services. This organization is sympathetic toward secessionist movements in general. Libertarianism is a extreme right-wing philsophy which believes that private property and the free market has a greater value than human life and society. And he teaches here at UB... So why exactly is someone teaching at UB who believes in dismantling public education? Is there a connection between his politics and how his courses are organized?

The email then lists several web pages of interviews with Sorens and about the FSP.

"Wow," Sorens commented, "I guess some people don't know the meaning of
academic freedom, eh?"

Apparently not, though such attacks are part and parcel of an entrenched left wing campaign among students and faculty to drive libertarian and conservative faculty members and student groups off campus. Long time readers of IntLib will recall our previous activism in support of libertarian Professors Zywicki and Robinson (regular contributors to The Volokh Conspiracy) in their insurgent campaigns for election to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees by alumni against entrenched insider candidates, and the ensuing left wing hostility. Those of you who track conservatives like David Horowitz may note his campaign against these sorts of left wing persecutions and discriminations against conservatives and libertarians on campus.

Our leader is under attack, it is time to bring attention nationally to this sort of intolerance by the left wing of other political views on campus, and establish once and for all that attacking faculty on their honest and rational political views is not acceptable.

What is more hypocritical is that, at the same time that the left is attacking Sorens for his rational libertarian views, they are shielding radical leftist professors who promote radical, irrational, moonbat conspiracy theories about events like 9/11, as we've reported previously. One would expect that, given that hypocrisy is the only crime that the left apparently recognises, that they'd try to avoid it, but apparently this is one more case of "Do as I say, Not as I Do" by the moonbats.