Sunday, April 19, 2009



Free speech takes a hit at UNC

We read:
"At Chapel Hill, the glow of winning the 2009 NCAA basketball championship still radiates, and the university can understandably puff with pride. Until Tuesday, that is, when UNC’s reputation was badly tarnished. That’s when a bunch of student rabble-rousers muzzled a controversial speaker and thus trampled the principle of free speech.

Here’s what happened: Tom Tancredo, a former Republican presidential candidate and former congressman from Colorado, was scheduled to speak at UNC’s Bingham Hall. Tancredo is a fierce opponent of illegal immigration... That fit the agenda of a right-wing UNC group called Youth for Western Civilization, which invited Tancredo to speak on campus. The group opposes immigration, affirmative action and multiculturalism.

Tancredo’s appearance was acceptable, because universities are supposed to be forums for the free exchange of ideas — including repugnant and unpopular ideas. But on Tuesday afternoon, several hundred protesters marched into Bingham Hall. Screaming profanities, the protesters were determined to prevent the speech. Tancredo’s speech, which barely got started, focused on his opposition to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

Then things got violent. One protester shattered a window, two others marched across the stage with a huge banner thrust in front of Tancredo. The banner said: “No dialogue with hate.” (One wonders who the real haters were.)

Police stopped the speech and escorted Tancredo away. Police then used pepper spray to quell the protests and empty a hallway. Police also threatened to use a Taser against the demonstrators. (Police are now investigating these methods.)

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

They should have used pitt bulls to get rid of the garbage.

Bobby said...

If it had been Michael Moore speaking, the protesters would have been arrested.

Anonymous said...

What that missed is at least one professor was egging on the protesters. I heard a clip with Tancredo saying that the professors were encouraging the protesters. So it could have very well been more than one.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/immigration/story/1486087.html

Anonymous said...

make that

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/immigration/story/1486087.html

Anonymous said...

http://www.newsobserver.com/news
/immigration/story/1486087.html

Anonymous said...

You got to be kidding me, people have lost all reason and common sense.
I thought citizens being citizen of the country they were born in meant something. Now it seems law breakers are being treated like babies.

Anonymous said...

Police should have locked the doors and let the protesters fend for themselves...

Bobby said...

"What we over here find strange (and somewhat amusing) is how the American people remain docile (or brain-dead)"

--You're right about that, I sent a forward about how Obama's federal thugs demanded that a christian symbol be covered in Georgetown, and my friend actually got angry with me. He actually said "why do you send me that shit? I don't care."

There are people out there who'd rather get a video of a dancing monkey than proof of why Obama is a fuckup.

They are little people, people who only care about their little jobs and little lives, they can never be bothered with the big picture unless gas jumps to $4 or $5 a gallon, or their taxes are raised to levels that demand sacrifices, or their lives are directly affected in some way.

Anonymous said...

In other words, the majority of people in this country deserve exactly what they're getting, and will get!

Anonymous said...

"(Police are now investigating these methods.)"

No investigation needed. Pepper spray and Tasers work very well as do beanbag guns and water cannons. And to completely stop the violent protesters, shotguns and rifles work well also.