If the USA is to be a "beacon of freedom and liberty" then is that simply to apply to those that gain her citizenship? Of course not. So these students should have the same right to speak as any other person on this soil.

Were they rude? Yes! Ungrateful? Yes! Stupid and foolhardy? Yes! But as "GUEST, I Hurricane" points out, That is what seperates us from them. That is why we shall prevail in the long term. Many of these student will realize to their eventual shame how childish they were but how the Democratic system protected them in spite of their ingratitude and foolhardiness.