Horowitz Speech Disrupted (And Reaction from Socialist Prof)

Daily Texan ^ | 4/15/04 | Marjon Rostami

[Psycho_Bunny]

[Progressive intellectuals] took out noisemakers to mark their disapproval of the speaker. Three females and three males were arrested and then jailed under charges of disrupting a meeting or procession........."Horowitz claims to be for free speech, but he is actually on a campaign to discredit and ruin progressive intellectuals," Cloud said.

I'm not a violent person but the fact of life is that sometimes, some people simply beg to be slapped hard across the face.

Seriously.

[Pyro7480]

When I was the chairman of the University of Delaware Young Americans for Freedom, I brought David Horowitz to my campus shortly after 9/11. He got protested then too, and there were protesters there who got disruptive too, but not to the point of airhorns. He did a good job of handling them.

[Flightdeck]

Maybe they were barely intelligent enough to realize she hurts their cause. Just like Eric Rudolph hurts the pro-life cause.

[frogjerk]

Is she a thespian?

[oblomov]

It's disrespectful and uncivil, certainly, but not a violation of First Amendment rights. The government was not involved in the attempt to stifle Horowitz' speech.

[Gunrunner2]

Whoa. . .a "Barf Alert" ("BARK Alert") is necessary when posting that picture. . .but then again, what do you expect from a socialist/Marxist/feminazi-type. Man. . .*shudder*. . .and a truly ugly person, inside and out.

[ruiner]

All the studies in Rhetoric. She would have a lot in common with Goebbels.

[BTHOtu]

Horowitz would be very welcome at Texas A&M. Every time some t-sip tells me an Aggie joke I ask them why they support the most anti-American school in Texas and that shuts them up.

[eyespysomething]

So they infringe on his right to free speech, and then say their right to free speech was infringed upon? Do I have that right?

I swear one day I won't be able to wipe this confounded look of disbelief off my face at all. It just happens too much now.

[Arrowhead1952]

"Horowitz claims to be for free speech, but he is actually on a campaign to discredit and ruin progressive intellectuals," Cloud said. "In the name of free speech, they are basically calling the police on protesters." .......

He attempts to whip up fear of tyrannical radical professors who, he says, indoctrinate what he sees as hapless, immature undergraduates. (Apparently, he hasn't met my students, whom I respect as adults capable of speaking for themselves and making their own judgments.) ..........

Seems to me that the professor "cloudy eyes" is a little upset that someone is calling her bluff.

Saying somone is on a campaign to "discredit and ruin progressive intellectuals" must have "the cloudy eyed professor" worried that someone may actually be talking some sense into the undergrads. I cannot stand the word "progressive" being applied to our youth. That is B$. She is teaching REGRESSIVE behavior.

[hgro]

Being a McCarthyite is a badge of honor when you enter the leftist dominated college campuses these days. While the Commintern and the Communists have been discredited worldwide, these lefty professors dominate the teaching positions in American colleges and universities.

Tenure given to these despicable people has to be eliminated and those giving such tenure to these worms should have to also answer.

[Thrusher]

Protesters chose to disrupt Mr. Horowitz's lecture by moving threateningly toward the stage, shouting at the speaker and blowing foghorns and other noise-making devices

If you want to argue the message, arrange for a point-counterpoint, have a speaker after Mr. Horowitz discuss his/her conflicting views, or hold a competing presentation at another venue.

If blowing foghorns is the only way these walking Emoticons can "express disagreement" with Mr. Horowitz and his opinions, its obvious that they can form no coherent or logical argument with which to challenge him.

[MAWG]

" Is she a thespian?"

Yes, a Bull thespian.

[Flightdeck]

"...I ask them why they support the most anti-American school in Texas..."

B/c the football team is sweet. Rose Bowl Champs!!

Seriously, don't you appreciate the challenge UT offers to the conservative academic? You know the saying "What happens here changes the world" Well, I need to do some changing at home.

[Designer]

"..why did they go to listen.."

Why do you put stuff like that in your response? Obviously they did NOT go to listen.

[Arrowhead1952]

Professor Cloud was quick to blame American policies for having provoked the 9/11 attacks, ......

This B!+c# is still teaching in the UT system???????

[lilmsdangrus]

Lesbian terrorist.

[Polyxene]

Animal Farm circa 2005:

Ward Churchill good -- David Horowitz bad

Liberals can say anything they want, and it is "free speech"

Conservatives say anything, and it is "hate speech"

The mind reels

[B Knotts]

Dana Cloud Associate professor, Communication studies Member, International Socialist Organization

Your Tax Dollars At Work

[ken21]

whatta sick puppy.

her politics recalls the decade of the weimar republic.