[StopGlobalWhining]

Please support Brian Battaglia and the College Republicans. They are being ruthlessly savaged by the Penn State administration and left-wing groups on campus.

Brian's e-mail adress is bbattaglia@psu.edu

Brian is intensely disliked by the left at PSU for several reasons:

• Brian is a white male.
• He is heterosexual.
• He is extremely intelligent. A senior in Aeronautical Engineering, Brian is skilled in logic, both verbal and symbolic, or he would have never reached the point in his education where he is at this moment. The left argues from anger and emotion, and cannot refute logical arguments.
• For these reasons, along with his political views, he is hated by left-wing extremist groups on campus who attempt to suppress views counter to their indefensible issues. Such groups include the Black Caucus, Womyns groups including the laughingly named "Womens Studies Dept", and the A-Z coalition (a.k.a LGBTAP).

Although these fringe extremist groups are tiny in comparison to the conservative student majority, they manage to make a lot more noise, plus they have the liberal Spanier administration behind them.

Additionally, they have a lot more free time on their hands to agitate and stir up trouble. If you are a upperclass student in Aeronautical Engineering at Penn State, you have far less free time to "raise hell" than if you are in such pseudo-academic courses such as African-American studies or "Womyn's Studies".

The College Republican photos were posted on a private web site without using any Penn State computer or network resources. It's none of Graham Spanier's business!

Please let Brian and the College Republicans know that many of us in the community, along with members of the PSU Alumni Association, support the PSU CR's!

[farmfriend]

Comments?

[Dialup Llama]

This guy should resign because he is IQ impaired. You never post pics of yourself on the web, esp. anything remotely strange or questionable, because they can be archived and will exist forever!

[WackyKat]

Meanwhile, we have a presidential candidate who falsely accused numerous white men of kidnapping and rape and later incited a race riot that led to seven people being burned to death.

And the media won't say anything about it.

The Death of the West continues

[Michael.SF.]

He is extremely intelligent

I would question the validity of that statement.

Black face, KKK mentioned?

These are "young Republicans?

I need far more info in this before I fully judge them but I would ask two things:

Does Penn State have any admissions criteria, or can any idiot get in? (OK, I pre-judged them)

As a minimum, they should be banned for poor taste.

If saying "niggardly" can get a white man fired (yeah, yeah, officially he resigned, under duress). Then who the hell, in this day and age, is stupid enough to dress in black face?

[lelio]

The photographs, which appeared on Battaglia's Web site, http://botag. net, depicted an "oversodomized frat pledge," "sorostitutes," and an unidentified white man wearing blue bed sheets with a caption referring to the Ku Klux Klan. A fourth photograph showed a white man in blackface and a bicycle chain over his shoulder, mocking Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and former Black Caucus Vice President Takkeem Morgan.

The College Republicans have a real winner on their hands. Why should anyone go to bat for him?

[HitmanLV]

Truly, backing this horse seems like a poor idea.

I dispute that he is all that intelligent, and I don't like behavior like this from anyone, certainly not someone who claims to be a Republican or conservative.

While I think tossing him from school is severe, anyone who thinks pictures and langauge like that is something defendable needs their head examined. At the very least, he doesn't deserve to be a leader of a group of Republicans with his obvious poor judgment.

Sorry, I can't back this horse.

Now you go and do the right thing.

[Lancey Howard]

Matthew Ritsko, an East Halls senator, said he resigned yesterday because he could not support the group's response to the outcry.

"The actions they've taken haven't reflected the message they should be representing. I don't feel they're in the best interest of the conservative movement," Ritsko said. "It's unfortunate, and I hope both parties will be able to settle their disputes."

Jason Covener, the former USG member who dressed as Morgan, said that while he thinks some of the costumes in question were in poor taste, group members did nothing "beyond the realm of legality."

"There's no way I'm going to apologize," he said.

This is where the weak get separated from the strong, the sissies from the men.
I wouldn't apologize, either.

I would like to know, however, whether Battaglia posted the party pictures on his website (I presume his own, personal website) for the benefit of his friends so that they could view images taken at a private party, or whether he posted them with full knowledge that they would likely be viewed by members of the general public.

In other words, was he looking for a fight?

[muawiyah]

BTW, "blackface", as a theatrical technique, has been around for a very long time. In the context of Hindu epics and religious tales it usually denotes a demon. In the context of Medieval European morality plays, it usually denotes a bad guy. In the context of American politics it usually denotes someone somebody would like to oppress or victimize.

So, unless these YRs were running some sort of Hindu ceremony, they were off-base.

In fact, even if they were engaging in Hinduism, they forgot that most Indian-Americans support the most mind-numbed of robot-like Democrat Liberals, which means they have a lot more to account for than they thought.

Still, somebody should look into that threat of physical violence. No one misunderstood that guy FUR SHUR!

[cricket]

"Jason Covener, the former USG member who dressed as Morgan, said that while he thinks some of the costumes in question were in poor taste, group members did nothing "beyond the realm of legality."

. . .is 'stupidity' a realm?

. . .they need to find a way to 'move on' and quickly. . .into safer more 'intelligent' territory.

It would be more stupid, for any other student to decide a personal retribution.

[William Tell]

While we are at it, we should apologize for some of the things that Ann Coulter has said. She is very confrontational and seems to think that political discourse has room for ridiculing through the use of exaggeration. NOT !!!

My "feelings" are such that I have no sympathy for liberals, even when they are attacked unfairly. I am tired of putting up with them. As far as I am concerned, they can like it or lump it. Much like our enemies on foreign battlefields, they are not going to like us any more if we are polite or hate us any more if we are disgusting, cruel, and unrelentingly hostile.

Liberals are just a few paces away from attempting to take my guns. If they don't want me further "upset", then they better get the message that we are not going to take it anymore.

[Question_Assumptions]

If Republicans ever want more than 10% of the black vote, they need to stop this nonsense. Really. The reason that every black I've ever talked to cites for not supporting Republicans, even if they are close to Republican beliefs political than Democrat beliefs, is the perception that Republicans have racist motives and stunts like this do not help. Anything to do with the Klan and blackface is about as appropriate as using Nazi regalia to make fun of Jews. This was stupid. Very stupid. I'd resign, too.

[beckett]

Can you link to the pics? Not a good idea to post them on FR but I would like to see them if they still exist on a server somewhere.

[NYCVirago]

He is extremely intelligent. A senior in Aeronautical Engineering, Brian is skilled in logic, both verbal and symbolic, or he would have never reached the point in his education where he is at this moment. The left argues from anger and emotion, and cannot refute logical arguments.

Oh, and posting a photo of someone in blackface is a logical argument? Spare me.

[Wolfie]

Sounds like Brian's a first class idiot as well.

[Dan from Michigan]

and an unidentified white man wearing blue bed sheets with a caption referring to the Ku Klux Klan.

Dumb.

A fourth photograph showed a white man in blackface and a bicycle chain over his shoulder, mocking Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and former Black Caucus Vice President Takkeem Morgan.

That's dumb with the blackface. There's a better way to make fun of the thief than that. PR is important and you can't play into the hands of your enemies.

He said the man turned to the group when leaving the debate and said someone would die, but it wouldn't be him.

Who? If someone is threatening, name names, or don't mention it. If someone threatened to kill me, the situation would be resolved in an appropiate fashion.