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 am only waiting for the homoloby to start accusing ann coulter of being a genetic man.
RUSH is talking about this right now.
This is the way the left has always acted. They only want their own voices heard. In the 1950s and especially the 1960s this is what the leftists did all the time.
After they shout you down if you are opposed to their nonsense, they talk as filthy as possible as a thinly veiled personal attack and to try to bring you down to the gutter where they live.
This is the same kind of people that created the 'sex, drugs and rock n roll' culture of hedonism. This is the type of filthy discharge who help Bill Maher and Howard Stern make a living spewing feculence.
"Where is this dillweed going to get a job after he graduates?"
Goobermint in some blue state or blue county. Or in Human Resources in some Fortune 500 corporation with a big zampolit (diverthity) directorate.
You wrote, "I've never met a heterosexual couple that had anal sex out of habit."
Can't speak for anyone but myself, but thankfully that particular topic doesn't come up too often when hanging out with other couples. Sports...kids...current events...weather...anal sex. Nope. (kidding)
Nah, he will work for an elementry school aids education program which teachs the preteen safe sex.
IOW a job in the aids industry.
I hope this time the prosecutor's office via the victim advocate MAKES SURE Ann recieves notice of a court date.
"Advocates "terrorism against liberals"??? Pulease!!! Ann doesn't advocate terrorism of any kind. This student needs to find a dictionary. First the left labels ANY opposing view as "hate" now it's 'terrorism'."
Meanwhile this vermin probably agrees with Ward Churchill that 9-11 wasn't terrorism, but a justifiable act of rage against 3000 "little Eichmanns" and probably thinks Saddam Hussein a poor, aggrieved teddy bear victimized by the big, bad United States. He probably agrees with Michael Moore that terrorists in Iraq killing civilians, especially children with car bombs, makes them the moral equivalent of the Minutemen of the American Revolution who fought the British and that they're a force of liberation in Iraq: The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not insurgents or terrorists or The Enemy. They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will growand they will win. - Michael Moore, 4/14/2004
But Ann Coulter speaking out against the kind of extremism and America hate demonstrated in the quote above, in short speaking out against the neo-Stalinists (what I now call Democrats, since they delight in calling us "Neo Cons" which I would gladly own if it weren't so terribly mis-used), that makes Coulter a terrorist. Wow, even George Orwell would be stunned at the world we find ourselves in and how the American left has turned things so thoroughly topsy-turvy, including our use of the language and the definition of terms like "terrorism" to describe free speech but not to describe the indiscriminate use of car bombs to murder civilians going about their business in Iraq.
Thank you!
(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".)
>>This UT graduate is ashamed of these antics and embarrassed to be associated with this leftist den of ignorance and iniquity. <<
Then why did you go to t.u. in the first place?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0504051_ann_coulter_1.html
MAY 5--Months after members of "Al Pieda" disrupted a campus speech by Ann Coulter, another appearance by the controversial conservative commentator has been disrupted by a protester. During a speech last night at the University of Texas in Austin, a 19-year-old UT student was busted after asking Coulter a lewd question, which he followed up with equally inappropriate hand gestures, according to the below police affidavit. The student, Ajai Raj, was arrested by campus police and hit with a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. The police affidavit notes that Coulter's lecture was attended by "several children under the age of ten," which probably made them particularly sensitive when Raj queried Coulter about the sexual proclivities of certain right-leaning men. (1 page)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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