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Jim Dey: As long as it's a free country ...

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As the University of Illinois band finished its halftime performance at Tuesday's men's basketball game against Rutgers, the moral reprobates did it again.

"Cccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiieeeeeefffffff," they yelled in unison.

It was enough to send chills up the spines of their moral superiors, and it surely did.

Why don't Chief Illiniwek supporters just knock it off? Haven't they been told — over and over and over again — that they've been forbidden to speak or think — let alone cheer — about the late, lamented-by-many Chief Illiniwek?

Who do they think they are — free people who live in a free society?