Protestors halt speech on "hate speech"

MassResistance ^ | March13,2009

[massmike]

This past Wednesday evening, March 11, renowned conservative author and columnist Don Feder came to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, sponsored by the UMass Republican Club, to give a speech on "Hate Crimes -- Fighting Bias With Fascism" - the myth of hate crimes and the liberals who propagate the laws targeting them. It promised to be an illuminating event.

But the college homosexual activists decided that he shouldn't be allowed to speak. They boldly announced that they intended to disrupt the event, and campus police responded requiring the UMass Republican Club to pay $600.00 to hire 5 policemen to protect them during the speech.(Don't get us started on that twisted logic.)

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09a/feder_0311/index.html

[NonValueAdded]

Don'tcha just hate it when that happens?

[Niteranger68]

Just take a baseball bat to the face of the first disruptive protester and the rest will run away.

[Altura Ct.]

Hate the haters!

[chris_bdba]

That is funny that they are so stupid that hey don’t see that they are proving his point of Fascism!

[RonF]

Ah, but if he can’t speak he can’t make the point about Fascism in the first place. They’re doing their best to make him a non-person.

So much for facing any foe and paying any price to defend liberty.

[turfmann]

I guess nothing has changed since I was there. The silver lining is that there are students there that observe this silliness and gravitate to the right. Meanwhile, the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and sheep aficionado groups pat themselves on the back for how tolerant they think they are.

[GQuagmire]

I see nothing has changed since I went there in the mid 80’s

[wac3rd]

I guess drug use, disease and perversion are “good” and “diverse” and normal lifestyles are “hateful”.

[Moose4]

It’s Weimar Germany all over again. The political parties had their bands of thugs designed to intimidate and break up the other parties’ rallies. The Nazi Sturmabteilung are the most famous, but all the other parties—the Communists, the Nationalists, even the “centrist” parties—had them too. And now, the New Fascists restart the tradition.

}:-)4

[Clock King]

And the cops just go along with this sh** in the name of “keeping the peace”.

[Wings-n-Wind]

NEXT TIME:

1) Respectfully decline the "privilege" of paying the campus fuzz $600...
--NOT to do the job you hired them to do.

2) Recruit, train and deploy your own discrete "security" volunteers... (Issue them each a roll of nickels!

3) Give fair notice that YOUR event an exercise in civil discourse, and is bought and paid for by the sponsors-
AND... that disruption of the event by visual/behavioral or vocal displays will NOT be tolerated...

4) Confiscate the signs and paraphernalia of the counter-protest element...

5) Take out the trash as needed...

6) The minute there are disruptive displays, fighting words, or physical resistance -- ENFORCE THE RULES!

Just food for thought...

[Question_Assumptions]

They should take this and run with it. "UMass considers gay activists dangerous and threatening and demands large police force to contain possible violence they may engage in."

[Reaganesque]

Tom Lehrer once made fun of the idea of hating the haters:

One week of every year is designated National Brotherhood Week. This is just one of many such weeks honoring various worthy causes. One of my favorites is National Make-fun-of-the-handicapped Week which Frank Fontaine and Jerry Lewis are in charge of as you know. During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood. This year, for example, on the first day of the week Malcolm X was killed which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is. I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that. Here’s a song about National Brotherhood Week.

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.

But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek.
It’s fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don’t let ‘em in your school.

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It’s American as apple pie.

But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans ‘cause it’s very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can’t stand.
You can tolerate him if you try.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
It’s National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It’s only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn’t last all year!

[Travis McGee]

“Support tolerance or I’ll smash you in the face!”

[Post Toasties]

Guess Leftards just can’t handle criticism of their hate speech.

[Fiji Hill]

In 1981 Phyllis Schlafly underwent a similar experience when she made an appearance at Occidental College (one of whose alumni is frequently in the news these days). Despite being heckled and shouted at throughout her speech, she finished and even took questions from the audience, most of which were moronic:

(Q: Why do you say that Russians are subhumans when Russia has produced som many grreat writers and composers? A: I never said that. Can you tell us where I ever expressed such an opinion? No response from the questioner).

Sadly, it seems that if anything has changed on the slopes of Fiji Hill, it is only for the worst. As far as I know, Dinesh D'Souza was the last conservative to make an appearance on the campus, about five years ago, and his experience was similar to that of Phyllis Schlafly. To my knowledge, no conservative has appeared since then--although leftist education guru Jonathan Kozol will be appearing shortly.

[MrB]

Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

[a fool in paradise]

But the college homosexual activists decided that he shouldn't be allowed to speak. They boldly announced that they intended to disrupt the event, and campus police responded requiring the UMass Republican Club to pay $600.00 to hire 5 policemen to protect them during the speech

Academic Bias at DUmass U?

[PzLdr]

I think it’s time the right on college campuses, where incidents like this have taken place, adopt the tactic, and shut down any speaker from the left invited to the campus. If nothing else, it will put the Administration on the spot.