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Posted on 07/25/2013 3:06:31 PM PDT by smoothsailing
July 25, 2013
Christopher White
WARRENSBURG – Ten College Republicans were dubbed a security threat and refused admittance to President Barack Obama’s speech at the University of Central Missouri on Wednesday.
Despite the fact that the students had tickets to the event, security personnel turned them away at the door to the recreation center where Obama gave a speech on economic policy, telling the group it wasn’t about their politics but the president’s safety, State Treasurer of the College Republicans Courtney Scott told The College Fix.
The students, some of whom donned Tea Party T-Shirts and others who wore patriotic or Republican-inspired clothing, had protested the president earlier in the day on campus, but had put away their signs and said they were ready to simply listen to Obama when security shut them down – and even told them to leave the vicinity and stay several hundred yards away from the rec center.
The students had waited in a long line and under the hot sun to wind their way to the front of the line two hours in advance of Obama’s scheduled 5:30 p.m. remarks. Still, they were rejected.
“It just didn’t make any sense,” Scott told The Fix. “A lot of us traveled several hours to watch the speech. We were very disappointed not to be able to attend.”
The small group of College Republicans were confused as to why such extreme security precautions were directed at them – but not at the 2,500 other audience members who were granted admission to the event, Scott said.
The speech, the start of Obama’s national tour to tout his latest plan to revive the sluggish national economy, drew a crowd to the university’s recreation center, creating a crowded, stuffy and stifling environment, some observers said.
The intense heat of the day, coupled with the late arrival of Obama, prompted some audience members to suffer heat exhaustion – a few even fainted. Plenty of people left the venue early, prior to Obama’s speech, generating seats to be filled regardless of whether the students had tickets.
The students’ protest earlier in the day was a peaceful one, consisting of holding political speech signs and talking to passersby throughout the morning, Scott said. They were asked to protest at the “public speech area” on campus, not anywhere near the rec center. They were not allowed within eyesight or earshot of people who were waiting in line.
The Mizzou Republicans were among about sixty protesters, half of whom were college students, who had voiced concern Wednesday over Obama’s economic policies in the wake of the country’s ongoing recession.
Some of the signs called for capitalism, others illustrated discontent with Missouri’s 16 percent unemployment rate among college student youth, and the increasing share of national debt students are saddled with year by year.
Cant be disrespecting the O.
At what point do they also get round up and shot?
Those who dare disagree with the king shall not be allowed in the same building as the king.
The presidents safety.....more like keeping the dorks lies safe.
Probably did not miss much since it was most likely the same speech he has given 40 times in the last two weeks....
Great way to bring people together!
They have metal screeners at these events. What did they think these kids were going to do, spit Obama to death?
Who determined this group was a security threat? The campus cops who there or the Secret Service? Understandable but not acceptable if it was the campus cops. No excuse whatsoever if it was the Secret Service.
This was a great wrong, but SORRY..! They were stupid —they should have used stealth.
Even these rather political kids do not grasp how EXTREMELY political their opposition is.
OF COURSE they’d turn them away.
During the Clinton years they even confined a bunch of freeps away from the speech venue of Bubba, and that area was enclosed with chain-link fense and topped with razor wire.
Oh, sure, it was all for their PROTECTION, of course, oh yessss.
Again —they should have used tactics VERY familiar to the left, i.e., use of disguises, over-clothes to be removed after entry, etc.
Lots of stealth —BASIC stuff.
Comment on Twitter:
“Obama fears college kids who disagree with him, but Bush can dodge someone throwing a shoe at him during a speech. In Iraq.”
Imagine the national outcry if Democrat students were barred from a Republican President’s event.
Probably whites or white Hispanic crackers and His Arrogance has an aversion to crackers.
His entire worldview is that of a dictator.
The left does seem determined to bring us to blows, don’t they.
He is not their president.
He is ONLY president to those who blindly and unquestioningly follow him like he’s a rock star. Period.
Hitler lives!
LOLOLOL! Big blunder on the part of the O.
This is ridiculous.
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