Hi, I'm Stuart Shepard. This is Stoplight.
Well, it's been very nice talking to you.
Here, have a free copy.
Thank you.
Hey, what do you think you're doing??
I'm just exercising my free speech rights to hand out...
Oh! Free Speech. I can help you with that.
Let me take you to our "Free Speech Zone."
Over this way...
Okay, I can take it from here...
And across this street...
But, But, But...
And a little farther...
This is kinda far...
And over there about 20 more yards.  Yeah, there. That's it.
Is this the spot?
Yeah, that's it, that's good.
Thanks.
(Shouting) By the way, what are you handing out?
(Shouting) The Constitution.
(Shouting) The what?
(Shouting) The Constitution!!
Radical.
This is not a made-up story.
A couple students at the University of Hawaii
in Hilo wanted to talk to their fellow students
and hand out copies of the U.S. Constitution
-- you know, that thing with the First Amendment in it.
The school told them it's against the rules
to just hand out literature anywhere you want to.
And directed them to the "Free Speech Zone."
It's a small, muddy drainage spot that comprises
about one quarter of one percent of the sprawling campus.
Not exactly a lot of free speech happenin' here.
School officials say they're "reconsidering" the policy.
And hopefully, they'll consider that
for all of us to have free speech, it involves
all of us being open to hearing the voices of others.
 
But, in fact, the students say they were told
(quote) "This isn't really the '60s anymore..."
-- "people can't really protest like that anymore."
Of course, handing out the Constitution for
the country you actually live in does not
exactly count as a big-time protest.
Think of it this way:
If the Constitution is radical, then we're
all revolutionaries once again.
