Posted on 05/04/2005 9:24:25 AM PDT by MikeA
Arrest made at Coulter speech; Student arrested, charged with disorderly conduct after offensive question Wed May 04 2005 11:57:58 ET
Incessant heckling and shouting culminated in an arrest Tuesday night during a speech by controversialist Ann Coulter at the University of Texas at Austin.
THE TEXAN reports: Shouts became so pervasive during the question-and-answer session that Coulter informed the organizers she would no longer take questions if the hecklers were not silenced. For a time, the shouts were considerably lessened, until the issue of gay marriage was broached.
Coulter said she supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman on the basis that a good woman civilizes and inspires a man to strive for something better, leading to a question that was met with a stunned silence.
"You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage," said Ajai Raj, an English sophomore. "How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but f*@k his wife up the ass?"
UT Police officers approached Raj to arrest him, resulting in a mass exodus of protesters chanting, "Let him go."
"The person had been disruptive the entire event," said Matt Hardigree, former Student Events Center president. "He took the opportunity to say something lewd and offensive and then made masturbatory gestures as he exited."
Hardigree said that Cheryl Wood from the Office of the Dean of Students spoke with some of the protestors before the event, and assorted members of the Distinguished Speakers Committee asked them to sit in the back if they had signs and to leave quietly if they wanted to leave.
According to Jeffrey Stockerwell, a friend of Raj, officers violently seized Raj and illegally searched him after his question.
Police have charged Raj with disorderly conduct, a Class C misdemeanor.
Representatives of the Austin People's Legal Collective were taking statements from everyone at the scene, in case it should be taken to court.
The booing began early into Coulter's speech, when she issued a joke to pro-choice advocates.
"I wonder why those 'I Heart Partial-Birth Abortion' T-shirts aren't selling better," she said, followed by a combination of cheers and jeers.
One student asked Coulter why universities and institutions place microphones in front of Coulter when she advocates terrorism against liberals, prompting Coulter to mention the strength of her book sales. Coulter has had four New York Times best sellers.
The $30,000 event was co-sponsored by the Texas Union Student Events Center and Student Endowed Centennial Lectureship Committee.
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I have an*l sex regularly, every other week actually, when the IRS bends me over for a hefty percentage of my income..
i don't think its the same article.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
It`s great isn`t it? All we need now is Hillary running for President and the `Rat party will go the way of the Whigs. The sane people of America will finally join together and flush this trash down the toilet once and for all and get a real American party to debate the issues for once, not one that does everything in it`s power to bring this country down. Just wait, it`ll happen and they are doing a wonderous job of it. I love it! We should encourage them as much as possible because the way they are going 2012 will be a Republican running against an Independent or something like the America first party. Democrats will go the way of the history books and they only have themselves to blame. You can`t constantly sh*t in a bed you share and expect people to put up with it.
Then why did you state that the hetero couples you know do not engage in the act?
I was thinking the same thing. My daughter is a top highschool student looking for a good college to attend. Got MIT, Princeton and Cal Tech on the list. She's interested in physics, and has very good math scores.
I suggested that she consider UT, but now I'm wishing I had not. Not just because of this, but because of a whole range of things that have been going on there that make me wonder which planet these guys are from.
47 posts into the thread and still the Ann Coulter rule is not mentioned. Could be a record!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I often say the GOP should pay foamers like this Raj trashball to go on the campaign trail for DemonRat candidates. We should also send them out on lecture circuits, speaking engagements and town hall meetings. The more the American public is made acquainted with the hate, irrationality, dementia, childishness, obscenity and callowness of the DemonRats, the more and more red will course across the state and counties on national election maps.</p>
While we're blasting the Longhorns, remember that Walt Rostow, he of the famous LBJ Vietnam bombing campaign, was a prof at UT.
He's sexually confused which means we will never have to worry about any lil Raj's running around.
Typical Brownshirt tactic.
Everyone does remember the National Socialist Workers Party, don't they?
Socialists and Progressives never change.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"Look, mom, I made a reference to anal sex, comparing sexual acts between a man and a woman to homosexual acts, as though they were the same thing! I got arrested, and made crude masturbatory motions as I was escorted out, thereby showing my heightened liberal respect for women! Oh, and mom, send bail money."
Lurked briefly at DUmmie land today, they have the same article posted singing praises for this guy.
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