Roger Stone, James O'Keefe slated for Siena 'free speech conference'
Albany Times-Union:The Sunday, April 15, event will include other conservative and libertarian speakers as well.
Stone is a political adviser, lobbyist and author with a long history in Republican politics. The self-described “dirty trickster” got his start on President Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign. In 1980 Stone co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone with Paul Manafort, who would go on to manage Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for several key months. (Manafort faces more than 30 federal charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller alleging his role in a decade-long money laundering scheme.)
Stone was an early adviser for Trump’s presidential effort, but left the campaign in August 2015. The two men have remained in contact. Stone appeared before the House Intelligence Committee last September in a closed-door session to answer questions about Russian meddling in the presidential election; Stone has vehemently denied there was collusion between the campaign and foreign elements.
...and we should let them.
First, they're inviting these people PRECISELY to provoke a reaction from liberals, so they can claim we're "anti-free speech".
Second, if we disrupt or attempt to prevent them from speaking, we lose all ability to complain if conservatives do the same thing with our speakers.
College is an opportunity to learn and be exposed to ideas, especially ones we don't agree with. When I was in college during the early Reagan years, emboldened conservative groups brought in similar speakers. We engaged with them at their talks AND over drinks afterwards.
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Sometimes I feel like they're doing it just *SO* they can get cancelled, then they go whine to media outlets about how the mean old liberals won't let them spew their bile and garbage. Repeat the process. The best thing to do is let them speak, then just ignore the shit they say, no matter how vile it is. The best publicity they can get is no publicity. 
They do it to *INTENTIONALLY* piss us off. No matter the outcome - whether it's good or bad publicity - anything they can do to get their name in the news is a good thing. That's exactly how Milo - as toxic as he is - gained followers. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If we do let them speak, they will spew the most vile, toxic crap they can think of just to piss us off, and it will get their name in the news. If the schools cancel, they'll just retreat to whatever media outlets will have them, rail on the "loony left", and it will get their name in the news. It's a win win for them no matter what the outcome is. And they call us the "snowflakes". Yeah right. 
