Your Opinion: What have we learned from incidents at Mizzou?

Dear Editor:

Concerning the activities that have transpired at the University of Missouri recently, what have we learned?

The St Louis Post Dispatch reports that Jonathan Butler, the individual on the hunger strike at Mizzou, is from a family in Omaha, Nebraska, that last year had an income of $8.4 million! Does that sound like an individual that lives in poverty?

With more than 34,000 students at Mizzou, how many of these "students" do not have a smart phone that could have taken a picture of the alleged swastika drawn with feces? Why aren't there any recordings of the alleged "N" word shouting individual?

With other incidents in recent memory, videos have appeared with lightning speed that have shown us what the police have allegedly done that were judged as wrong. Where are the condemning pictures and videos?

Another grievance that Butler had against the university is, as a graduate student he lost his health care. I wonder why?

Could it be that his dear ruler's health care, Obamacare that not one Republican voted for, was the reason and not the university? If the so-called reporters would check things out, they might be able to find holes in his demands large enough to drive a Mack truck through.

Then there is the football coach, basketball coach, former president and former chancellor. All these guys folded like a lawn chair rather than stand for what is right.

Living through the 1960s and all the demonstrations at colleges around the country, I saw first-hand what good became of caving to these anarchists accomplishes.

The same type of individuals that were demonstrating back in the 1960s are the ones in charge of colleges now, for the most part. I guess what goes around comes around!

For the life of me could someone explain to me why these "so-called" tolerant faculty members were trying to keep reporters away from the protesters?

I thought you people were all about free speech, or maybe speech is only free when it agrees with you? They shouldn't be suspended or allowed to resign, they should be fired. Even though a "courtesy appointment" professor resigned her position, she is still on the payroll as an assistant in the communications department. Go figure?

There is a lot of house cleaning that needs to be done, but the university doesn't have the "will" to do it.