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   >> String the professor up by the neck.  Gretchen Whitmer is a lying   
   >> corrupt whore.   
      
   EXCLUSIVE - A Michigan State University (MSU) professor has been sued   
   for allegedly forcing her students to pay $99 each to her personal   
   political advocacy organization, which ultimately helped fund Planned   
   Parenthood and other left-leaning causes and allegedly violated the   
   students' free speech rights.   
      
   According to a lawsuit filed Thursday, Amy Wisner, professor of   
   marketing at the MSU College of Business compelled each of her 600   
   students to pay a $99 membership fee to join an outside organization   
   called "The Rebellion Community" as a condition of participation in her   
   course.   
      
   The court document says Wisner controlled The Rebellion Community and   
   used the membership fees to finance her own political advocacy and to   
   support external groups like Planned Parenthood and progressive causes   
   dedicated to "dismantling oppressive systems."   
      
   According to the lawsuit Wisner linked to a Facebook page associated   
   with "The Rebellion Community" and wrote, "The Rebellion community is a   
   safe place to coordinate our efforts to burn everything to the f***ing   
   ground."   
      
   Attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom are representing students   
   Nathan Barbieri and Nolan Radomski who say that their money was used by   
   their professor to engage in political speech that is "antithetical to   
   [their] deeply held beliefs," and therefore their First Amendment rights   
   were violated.   
      
   "The Constitution protects everyone, both from being compelled to speak   
   themselves and from being compelled to subsidize the speech of people   
   they don't want to promote," ADF Attorney Logan Spena told Fox News   
   Digital in an interview.   
      
   "And this professor was simply using her position as a faculty at a   
   university teaching a required course to require hundreds of students to   
   do just that."   
      
   According to the complaint Wisner used the funds collected from students   
   — to the tune of around $60,000 — to also purchase an RV.   
      
   According to the complaint, the Barbieri and Radomski were "aghast to   
   learn that the fees they were compelled to pay as membership fees would   
   be donated to Planned Parenthood," because they are pro-life and think   
   abortion is "homicide of innocent children."   
      
   The lawsuit says that, "when the government goes from restricting the   
   chosen speech or association of its citizens to compelling them to speak   
   its message or associate with its preferred confederates, ‘additional   
   damage is done’ because ‘[f]orcing free and independent individuals to   
   endorse ideas they find objectionable is always demeaning.’"   
      
   "The same harms occur when the government compels speech through forced   
   financial contributions, since ‘[c]ompelling a person to subsidize the   
   speech of other private speakers raises similar First Amendment   
   concerns,’" the complaint says.   
      
   The lawsuit also names Thomas Jeitschko, interim provost and head of   
   academic affairs at the university because he "personally approved the   
   policy on the donation of proceeds received from assigned course   
   materials at issue in this lawsuit and is responsible for "keeping   
   existing programs updated and in conformity with University educational   
   policies."   
      
   The university gave students who were enrolled in Wisner’s class a   
   credit equal to the fee Wisner charged, but the credit does not stop   
   Wisner from continuing to use the money to support her activism and   
   other groups.   
      
   The lawsuit demands the school change its policy to not allow professors   
   to require funding material that violates students’ First Amendment   
   rights, are seeking nominal, compensatory and punitive damages from   
   Wisner for "her purposeful violation of Plaintiffs’ First Amendment   
   rights."   
      
   Judith Whipple, interim dean at the business school, is also named in   
   the lawsuit in her official capacity.   
      
   ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit, Barbieri v. Jeitschko, in the U.S.   
   District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division.   
      
   Azar002   
   32 minutes ago   
      
   Ms Wisner and Thomas Jeitschko, interim provost and head of academic   
      
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