Controversy surrounded Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University yesterday. People all across the nation were divided over his right to be there and speak before the students. Those that cried that it was his right to free speech seem to have forgotten an important detail. The first amendment right that they are trying to confer upon Ahmadinejad is a right guaranteed to citizens of this nation and he has no 1st amendment right to free speech in this country.
It’s funny somehow, we will confer our rights onto those who are not eligible for them and deny them to those that have them by citizenship. Again, we live in a squirrelly world.



