It’s safe again for college students in California to protest terrorism. This week, a federal judge ordered San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the California State University system to abolish several speech codes that had been used to drag two SFSU College Republicans before a college tribunal for stomping on makeshift Hamas and Hezbollah flags during an anti-terrorism rally in October 2006. Following the rally, an SFSU student filed a complaint that the College Republicans engaged in “attempts to incite violence and create a hostile environment” and “actions of incivility.” SFSU bureaucrats investigated the College Republicans for five months and held a hearing in March 2007 when the charges were finally dismissed. The university’s “civility” policy was struck down by Judge Wayne Brazil because the Alliance Defense Fund and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed a lawsuit challenging the speech code. Bob Egelko of the San Francisco Chronicle reported:
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