Leftist administrators at DePaul University are threatening to cancel a speech by Chris Simcox if the conservatives on campus don’t fork over $2,500 to fund private security officers. Simcox, an advocate for protecting America’s borders from unlawful entry, leads the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

Neither Simcox nor the students sponsoring him asked for security. But when campus administrators learned that pro-illegal immigration activists at Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission were planning to protest the lecture, the student sponsors were told that there needed to be a security presence, and that they had to pay for it

Student organizer Nicholas Hahn objects to sponsors being shaken down for money when the majority of those threatening to protest aren’t even students. “We shouldn’t be forced to subsidize a leftist demonstration,” said Hahn. “In fact,” writes Jason Mattera of Young America’s Foundation, “why is DePaul even allowing non-students to protest a student-run function on a private campus? University officials can mandate all the security they want, but shouldn’t they pay for it? The school does have a $250 million-dollar endowment, after all.”

Answer: Security serves as well as any other excuse for preventing the airing of non-leftist views.