Posted on 04/15/2009 8:28:26 AM PDT by NCDragon
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Campus police used pepper spray on student protesters angry over immigration issues who disrupted a speech by former Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hundreds of protesters denouncing Tancredo's tough stances against illegal immigration gathered at Bingham Hall on Tuesday evening, shouting profanities at the former Colorado congressman, who tried to speak about his opposition to in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.
Tancredo left after a protester broke a window and police shut down the event. He had been invited by a student group that opposes mass immigration and multiculturalism.
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
Your “right” to “free speech” does not include interrupting some group that is peacefully gathered (the conservatives).
Same with the pinko witch who interrupted John McCain's GOP acceptance speech.
Here is it’s companion article in the Raleigh News and Obstructor:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/immigration/story/1486087.html
Ah..... Freedom of Speech.
You gotta love it./sarcasm
I think this is just the beginning.....as more Americans step up to make thier voices be heard, those on the left are going to come out in full force to shut us down.
It can get real ugly.
Typical for the People’s Republic of Chapel Hill. Marxist display to deny the freedom of speech of a conservative. In this society of Barack Omamamamabamamama, only those who follow the Great Zero will be allowed to speak.
Were the protesters ‘right-wing extremists’ on the DHS list? /rhetorical?
No surprise students are intolerant of free speech that disagrees with their point of view. It’s what they’ve been learning from their teachers and professors for years and years.
Liberal brown shirted fascists need to be meet with greater force. It is way past time to teach them a lesson.
These protests are led by students who have drank the liberal Kool-aid their professors have fed them. They havent started paying taxes yet. Wait until these students become more Conservative after they have started paying through the nose for illegals to live here.
Right now Momma and Daddy are providing for them, when they have to provide for themselves ,and illegals too their positions will change.
Leftist have never been about the truth, because the truth hurts.
So they resort to the childish tactics.
Tempers are flaring. The left keeps pushing and pushing, their way and their way only. The crap will hit the fan alot sooner than we may think.
Don’t you like how wral.com uses the term, “unauthorized immigrants?”
Someone should tell the pc-fascists at wral.com that they are called ILLEGAL ALIENS!
Where is John Galt
It’s a revolt against the “physicists” and truth. Ever since the US got the bomb, it’s been a nono for America to figure things out.
Actually it's late, and possibly too late. The way that schools in our country have been allowed to become nothing more than indoctrination pens is the primary reason for what exists in our government presently.
Wasn’t it convenient for Obstuctor to begin the article with Campus police using pepper spray and threatening to taze people. If your believed the propaganda, you would think that the police were the brutish thugs instead of the Multicultural Marxists.
College used to be a place where you intelligently described your opinion and backed it up with spirited debate. A necessary skill in life.
Alas, those days are long gone.
Sad to see how the leftist cancer has taken over UNC!!! Whatever happened to free speech???? Free speech is only for the radical left!!
They've been doing a great job of that for years. Our side absolutely SUCKS at countering them.
Yep. They're all about feeeeeeeeeeeelings.
Free speech is only what the Marxists decide it is and deviation will be punished by Stalin.
One of my favorite Jesse Helms anecdotes:
The Raleigh area was trying to get the money to build a zoo.
Jesse said “Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?”
“We’re very sorry (but not really) that former Congressman Tancredo (a fascist pig) wasn’t able to speak. We pride ourselves on being a place where all points of view (that we agree with) can be expressed and heard.”
UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp
Protest stops Tancredo's speech Video Part 2
The second two are the before and after, including the broken window and the response -- the building manager attempting to shut down the event after the window was broken, and someone on Tancredo's side saying, "If you shut this down, if you allow this to happen, all it will take from now on to shut down speech at this University will be to break a $5 pane of glass."
Ping! Could someone ping the full NC list?
Ya gotta love these kids... not the liberal fascists.
NC ping
I googled her name and turned up her CV--lots of publications and papers on Latinos, labor issues, feminism...looks like a pretty committed leftist.
Im sure sec nippletano and DHS will be all over this hunting down the left wing extremists who did this.
Holden Thorp, Chancellor
103 South Building
Campus Box 9100
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9100
chancellor@unc.edu
Phone: (919) 962-1365
Fax: (919) 962-1647
Thanks for the ping-out. Chancellor Thorp’s contact info at post #32.
MitchellC has the ping list. I believe he works days, but it’ll get out.
Is it in the NC sidebar? (I have no idea how that stuff works ...)
What is the evil part? Traveling? Serving the Mongols?
Berzerkly of the east.
Chancellor Thorp,
UNC-CH has now had its own Krystallnacht. Shame, shame, shame.
If you accomplish nothing else during your tenure, please teach your Marxist faculty and thugocratic students at UNC-CH the true meaning of the First Amendment and of civil discourse.
Hold special seminars or required courses in the civil exchange of ideas and spirited but productive debate.
Those were not protesters at Tancredo’s speech — they were fascists! Do whatever it takes to drive fascism off your campus.
The protesters’ own words, “No dialog with hate” couldn’t be more true — they are so full of hate, they won’t allow dialog. This is a profound DISGRACE.
Yours truly,
He brought rice to China from Italy, and noodles to Italy from China.
More importantly, isn't it "RACIST" of these thugs to call out Tancredo's ethnicity? DNA does not convey a point of view.
Free speech for thee
If with me
You agree.
Thanks for the ping-out. I hope everyone will email or call the Chancellor. Info at post #32.
I have been reviewing a new place to live.
This just puts N Carolina completely off my list.
Too bad- I have paid all my taxes all my life.
The UNC-Chapel Hill professors may be doing a bit of "keeping up with the Joneses"--after the stellar performance of the Duke faculty when the lacrosse players were falsely accused of rape, they've got to do something to show that they are progressives too.
And to think the DHS treats conservatives as potential terrorists as liberals chant terroristic threats...
-PJ
I too have made good choices in my life. 5 years ago, I did my first stint as a contract employee, and paid my quarterly taxes in time, unlike Geitner. I guess Ivy League degrees are not all they advertise them as eh?
John Galt is inside each of us. But we need a George Washington, Hamilton or Franklin.
Yeah, because our side actually believes in abiding by the Rule of Law and common behavioral decency. [And particularly in this specific instance] The other side couldn't care less, so long as it gets its way.
Was the “Don’t Taze me, bro!” kid there?
Lost all respect for Judas Tancredo when he sold his soul to Slick Willard. I guess he forgot to tell the crowd he endorsed a Socialist fraud for President, they surely would’ve listened to him then.
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