<p>Mvellius,</p>
<p>You are wrong. West Point is NOT a public school. It is part of our military and the installation is not a campus, but the oldest continuous Army Post in the country. Never has there been allowed a protest on a military installation.</p>
<p>"Sorry, the people who are subsidizing this mediocre education have a right to protest at a public school."</p>
<p>That is a very rash statement.</p>
<p>"That is a very rash statement."</p>
<p>And indicative of ignorance of the highest degree imaginable.</p>
<p>He's what's known as a "troll". Ignore him.</p>
<p>Mom needs to take his computer away before he really embarasses himself.</p>
<p>Too late for that.</p>
<p>Good grief. Now I've read everything....</p>
<p>I guess you folks have not been keeping up w/ the USNA site were these arguments--despite occasional flare-ups--and the people who promote them have been effectively banished. See RationaWar's non-sequitor [non-sequitive?] attempt to start a similar discussion following the Republican debates.</p>
<p>Don't let the acrimony of the USNA thread infect this thread.</p>
<p><em>peeks out of hole</em></p>
<p>[whisper]Is it safe to come out? Hello?</p>
<p>These arguments are indeed pointless. We all have our views, and no one's going to change them just because they read something on the Internet. However, having said that, I think that Zaphod summed up the ORIGINAL discussion quite well when he said that USMA is a military installation. Period. The right of West Point command to keep certain groups away at its discretion due to safety reasons, or any other concerns for that matter, shouldn't change because this is a taxpayer-funded school.</p>
<p>Sure, for that matter, Fort Knox is a taxpayer-funded installation, but I doubt the government would condone the average civilian simply waltzing in and protesting or doing anything else he wanted to there. "Taxpayer-funded" does not equal "open to the public."</p>