Študent medicine spregovori o ustrahovanju s strani univerze

Hello,
It's been quite a while and my blog has mostly been sitting idle, and I thought it would be fair to let you know why.
You might recall me saying my last blog and our student group's website was taken offline because of legal threats from our university. This wasn't the only measure taken against us. Public universities in [my country] have the right to "uphold their academic and social reputation", which includes a clause for academically punishing students for "behavior that is damaging to the reputation of the University". As you might imagine, this has become an enormous vehicle for controlling the lives of financially dependent, barely employable students. They basically gave themselves the right to drop a student from any program and revoke his credit points, should they find any of his behavior, university-related or not, objectionable.
When they persecuted us for our political and social activism a year ago, they threw me out of my study program and revoked all of my credits. Since I was actually a medical student with almost 2 years worth of advance studies, this was a particularly devastating blow to me. Several of my colleagues got it even worse, some were stripped of their degrees, including one of my friends who was stripped of two MSc degrees and a university medal.
They did allow us to enroll in another program, on the condition that we were to formally dissolve our group and keep our political views only as personal opinions. Well, we did just that, really having no other choice - a lack of university education here is practically a death sentence, and it's nearly impossible to get scholarships to study abroad from private companies, since no company would be stupid enough to have a vested interest in the mountains of paperwork and yellow tape that is the [national] workforce. Of course, the national subsidies only apply to people the University likes.
We begrudgingly applied to the programs that we were still allowed to enroll in and stayed in the shadows. We only met informally in pubs and spoke to people as individuals. A couple of us wrote articles for student magazines as individuals, etc. As you might expect, the University, not being satisfied with its level of despotism, recently accused some of us for "personally defaming the institution". Someone in the administration must have really hated me in particular, because they took extra pains to find anything they could possibly pin on me.
Low and behold, they've found my blog. Apparently, somehow, magically, the posts on small government and gay marriage amount to defaming the institution. I'm again to stop writing if I don't want to get sued for defamation, and I'm on indefinite academic suspension. This includes having to reimburse the government for tuition fees, which exceed 10k euros, and they know very well I have nowhere to get them. In short, I am basically getting sentenced to sleeping rough or voluntary exile. I wish I had the option of emigrating, but the only merits on which I could do that are academic ones, and they've rescinded most of those.
I could try to pursue this legally, but it would be shooting myself in the foot. The chief prosecutor is also the University's legal advisor, and not much good can be said of any defense attorneys I might get either.
I'm currently in complete deadlock. I do not know when and if I will be able to continue writing my blog, and it's frankly becoming one of my lesser worries at the moment. If anything should change, I'll be happy to notify you. Thank you again for extending your help and support to my voice online, as muzzled as it might be now.
Forgive me if this letter goes into much detail about my personal woes, if nothing else, I hope it will serve to further illustrate to you just how present and menacing demagoguery is in today's Western civilized world, and how important it is we fight it off before we can't even fight with words anymore.
I've been enjoying your readings of articles very much, it's more pleasant to hear them in clear voice and with a bit of commentary, it often makes them more engaging, or in the case of bullshit from the progressives, at least digestible. I'm very much looking forward to seeing more of your own opinion pieces in the future.

Matako je 14. avg 2013 ob 09:05 izjavil:

V drugem pismu se izkaže, da so ga želeli "titoizirati" z eno knjigo.

Čaki, modelu so dal eno ničvredno knjigo v locker in posledično je šel kolesart za cel dan in iskat safe haven? Paranoik?

Brane22 je 14. avg 2013 ob 09:41 izjavil:

Veliko joka, malo informacij.

Predvsem manjka vpogled v "sporno" vsebino.

Brane22 je 14. avg 2013 ob 09:51 izjavil:

Matako je 14. avg 2013 ob 09:45 izjavil:

Ok, če so mu res grozili je sporna vsebina načeloma manj pomembna (ker je dejanje grožnje napačno/kaznjivo samo po sebi). V bistvu se je že zajebal, da je razkril da je scal proti slovenskemu mainstream vetru (Joško!) - zdaj bodo simpatije bolj redke.

Meni se zdi pomembna ker daje vpogled v motive napadalca. Težko te bo kdo ustrelil iz čistega miru in zaradi ničesar, razen če je neuravnovešen. Tip tu govori o vodstvu faxa in organiziran napad na več ljudi.