Last ride of the thought police?

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. in the Washington Times has another perspective on the Larry Summers statement. Good to be reminded that the 1st Amendment applies to everyone.//JW sends

The acrimonious controversy Lawrence H. Summers, president of Harvard University, finds himself in reminds me of something I have suspected for years. The First Amendment's guarantee of free speech is a reactionary blight inimical to all true progressives and certain to be formally eliminated from the Constitution as soon as progressives regain ascendancy.
There have been times when progressives, or liberals as they are often called, championed free speech, for instance, in the early days of the Cold War and during youthful protests in the 1960s. In the early days of the Cold War, progressives favored the right of communists to denounce America as they often did, particularly on college campuses. In the 1960s, progressives favored the right of youthful idealists to use the F-word. At the University of California at Berkeley, something called the Free Speech Movement rose, dedicated to the freest possible use of the F-word. So successful were these idealists that I am told today on college campuses the F-word is employed by professors in their lectures, often as a punctuation mark. I think I learned that from Tom Wolfe's new book, "I Am Charlotte Simmons."