Watch As Cops Threaten To Arrest Students If They Dont Stop Handing Out ConstitutionsBy Matt Agorist The studentswere from the newly-formed Turning Point USA chapter at GVSU, a group whose stated mission is educating students about the importance of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government. When they were confronted by police, the group was not attempting to promote a political candidate, nor were they passing out anything controversial. They were merely handing out copies of the Constitution. Not one, but two campus cops approached the group and told them that they immediately needed to stop handing out the pocket Constitutions because it violated the schools policy. In order to do that, you gotta be approved by the office of student life, one officer told them, asserting that the policy applies to any distribution of materials, even if one is not selling anything or asking for money, as reported by Campus Reform. When the group inquired as to what would happen to them if they refused to stop handing out the document that these officers swore an oath to uphold, the officers initially told them that they would be referred to the Office of Student Life while the non-students with the group would be asked to leave. However, police quickly changed their tone and stated, If you continue to stay here, then well need to arrest you for trespassing. Its not a violation of ones First Amendment rights, the officer said, ensuring the students that violating their First Amendment right was somehow not a violation of their First Amendment rights. Im a firm believer in the First Amendment, the officer said in a blatant act of doublespeak. According to Campus Reform,Nathan Berning, a Michigan field representative from the Leadership Institute who was advising the students over the phone during the altercation, told Campus Reform that he finds it unacceptable that a person cant hand out Constitutions to college students in a country that enshrines free speech in its founding document. Instead of trying to combat the utter failure in logic by the campus cops, the students decided to concede under duress to avoid being kidnapped and caged for their free speech. In a statement to campus reform,Mary Lyon, GVSUs associate vice president for university communications, made sure to stay on the same doublespeak terms as the police when she implied that violating the students First Amendment rights was not a violation of their First Amendment rights: The university requires that groups wanting to organize, protest, or hand out materials register with the Office of Student Life and secure a room, or if a room is not available, a space set aside for such activities, she explained. This is not to regulate content, but rather time, manner, and place so that the educational mission is not disrupted. In this particular case, in addition to not registering with the Office of Student Life after being instructed of the procedure, the group also used a megaphone causing a disruption and a complaint to the university police department. Discouragingly enough, this incident is hardly an isolated one.Just last week, according to Campus Reform, an activist was forced to leave another campus, Middlesex County College, because he did not get prior approval to practice free speech. Also, the Free Thought Project reported on an eerily similar case last year out ofGlen Ellyn, IL. In that infuriating video, two students at the College of DuPage, a public university, were on campus exercising their First Amendment rights by passing out pocket Constitutions and fliers that read America is a free speech zone, when approached by a police officer and threatened with arrest. Filmed ironically only one day after Constitution Day, the footage showed the officer infringe on the students right to freely express their political opinions by threatening to kidnap and throw them in a cage, claiming they are soliciting. The officer tells the students that they need to get a permit and that they cant just do it whenever you want. You cant do it out here, otherwise Im going to have to lock you up, the officer told the men. Engaging the cop, one of the men asks, What are the rules for doing this kind of stuff on campus? You go to the Student Life office, and they give you a permit to do so, the officer replied. The obvious absurdity of having to get a permit to exercise your First Amendment rights speaks to the administrative decimation of liberty. Creating administrative rules, which impede Americans free speech rights, by limiting a students ability to freely express their thoughts and ideas on campus, seems patently offensive to the idea of freedom. Dont be fooled by this attempt to usurp your constitutional rights with administrative rules. Make no mistake; campus free speech zones violate students constitutional liberties. If you run into this problem on your campus contact and need help contact TheFire.org. Please share this most important story! Matt Agorist is the co-founder of TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. He is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Follow @MattAgorist. and now on Steemit Image Credit: Pixabay.com Exercising the Constitution who knows what theyll be doing next. As usual Matt your writing shines a light on the darkness that has permeated our world. This time once again, we see under-educated people in uniform acting like the gorillas in Planet of the Apes (just keep them clothed and fed and armored up). Got to keep the masses compliant and obedient, or in a cage. We the people do not consent Always be a light that is shininginthedark This is why anti-war radicals used to burn down college administration buildings. Asking permission to speak was laughed at and dealt with properly. I turn 65 this monthI know 1st hand of which you speak Yea, we had cajones, these children have smartphones. I wish someone would give them a permit to think. I was corrected about the spelling too ..being a white Canadianits cojones feel free to correct me as well anytime I shot killed my own ego because it just wouldnt shut up! (lol)true humility werkx way better anyway as Ive learned over the past 65yrs on this floating insane asylumI always read your commentarycheers I like your sense of humor cheers juxtaposition is the nexus of humorgotta have one to survivebecause if some of us werent a little nutty mildly crazy like gifted comedians. wed all go insane. Truly. These days, I feel like Im in the middle of a bad dream that I just cant wake up frombut then theres a bit of humor or a 6 point buck in my yardor a painted bunting that shows up out of the blue Yes I turn to YT for all the comedians to get the endorphins pumping ..because we literally might not be here if WWIII beaks out or Martial Law is declared were standing on the edge of the abyss as we speaksoberingthats why ya gotta laffWhat do you call a naked hippy sitting in a tree smoking a joint?.. And I always read yours. Thanks for the spell check. When I get riled up I throw my spelling permit out the window. noblesse oblige cheers amigo A well controlled compliant citizenry is what the Radical Marxist Communists goals have been all along How dare you wake! In my in tire expletive life eye have never bin politically correct. Probably why in 1963 that eye was not act cepted into the draft. Classified lower than 4F. Tried to en list in the Marines, but was told to go home.??? My date of entry into this world was on VE Day. I know there lot who do not remember what that DAY was. Because it is politically incorrect to do so. Yes eye no grammar and spelling ere not correct. Part of that incorrectness. Eye have paid a great price at times for this but, no price is to high for freedom. Have dealt with the corruption in the courts. And in the law ENforcement. key word is enforce. So to all fighters for FREEDOM. My Hat is of to all. If death is what it takes then I will do my best to oblige them. I am threatening no . I abhor violence, but I am not naive to what is going in this world. I know GOD has a plan and it will be carried to his will. All of the rent-a-cops and police officers in these videos should be fired. Right to free assembly. I am sure noone says a word when they have a drunken cops-only motorcycle party in the neighborhood. 