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Padilla, a member of Peninsula magazine, found the swastika on his door after the magazine's controversial "Know Your Enemy" issue came out in September...
...Peninsula editor Bradley L. Whitman '98 agrees. "It does seem that there is a double standard where it's okay to try and suppress the opinions of conservatives and infringe on their rights of free speech," he says. "Calling us Nazis or fascists allows them to simply lump our views into a category where we can't be taken seriously...
...weeks ago, Peninsula comp posters with the slogan "Faith, family and freedom" were parodied with posters equating the group with "racism, fear and bigotry...
...Peninsula are aware that our views might be unpopular with some members of the Harvard community. Any advocate of free speech, though, should champion the right of an officially-sanctioned group to advertise its existence to the student body. Not once has Peninsula or any other conservative organization stooped to a level such as this. In the space of a few months, though, our enemies have put a swastika on the door of one of our members, Jose Padilla '97, and put an incredibly intolerant note which bordered on a death threat outside the door of one of our former...
...behalf of the Council of Peninsula and all those who are associated with the publication, I would like to call on President Neil Rudenstine and Dean Archie C. Epps III to set aside whatever biases they might have against Peninsula and speak out in defense of our right to free speech. Nothing was done when Padilla was defamed. Nothing was done when gay activists verbally assaulted Ralph Reed. Are conservatives not entitled to equal protection under University rules...