Posted on 05/04/2005 3:07:20 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Vulgar heckler arrested at Ann Coulter speech
Protesters rip 'racist, sexist, anti-gay, right-wing bigot'
Posted: May 4, 2005 3:51 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
A University of Texas student was arrested last night amid F-word-laced heckling and shouting during a speech on campus by WorldNetDaily columnist Ann Coulter, prompting discussion on talk radio across America today.
The student, sophomore Ajai Raj, was approached by campus police officers after asking Coulter a vulgar question during a question-and-answer session, according to the Daily Texan student newspaper.
The paper said that prior to the $30,000 event, co-sponsored by the Texas Union Student Events Center and Student Endowed Centennial Lectureship Committee, the International Socialist Organization protested outside of the meeting hall at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
About a dozen people held up signs with slogans such as "Racist, sexist, anti-gay, right-wing bigot go away" and "Stop the new McCarthyism."
The booing began early into Coulter's speech, the Daily Texan said, when she told a joke aimed at abortion advocates: "I wonder why those 'I Heart Partial-Birth Abortion' T-shirts aren't selling better."
Coulter criticized liberals for undemocratic reactions to the Iraq war and the president's judicial appointments. "They're always trying to act like they're oppressed," she said. "So let's do it. Let's oppress them."
The paper said one student asked Coulter why universities and institutions invite her even though she "advocates terrorism against liberals." Coulter pointed to her book sales, with four New York Times best-sellers.
During the question-and-answer session, the booing and heckling became so overwhelming that Coulter said she would have to leave unless the hecklers were silenced. The noise died down until Coulter addressed the issue of same-sex marriage, which led to the arrest of Raj.
After affirming she believed marriage is between a man and a woman, Raj asked approached the microphone to ask a question.
"You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage," the student said. "How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but ---- his wife up the ---?" According to the police report, he then ran back toward his seat, making a motion with his hand "simulating masturbation."
"The police came down and started escorting him out," said event organizer Josh Campbell on today's Rush Limbaugh radio show. "He resisted that and then they arrested him. So, it's not like they were arresting him because of what he said, they were arresting him because he was using lewd remarks and lewd gestures and then resisted them escorting him out. ...
"At that point, I would say probably 30 or 40 liberals in the audience jumped up out of their chairs, ran out of the auditorium claiming police brutality, and we were purged of about 80 percent of the liberals that were there, so it was great!"
A friend of Raj, Jeffrey Stockerwell, claimed officers violently seized Raj and illegally searched him after his question.
Police charged Raj with disorderly conduct, a Class C misdemeanor.
The paper said representatives of an activist group, Austin People's Legal Collective, took statements from everyone at the scene in case it ended up in court. The group says it is "committed to the fight against global capitalism as well as, but not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, militarism and imperialism."
"I'm just amazed by how they can use these tactics and feel like they're getting anywhere," a woman attending the event told Limbaugh. "I was very turned off by it."
Rush LimbaughLimbaugh responded: "This was nothing more than a bunch of liberals that can't argue with her, that can't defeat her, can't pretend to play along with her in the arena of ideas. It's a typical liberal tactic – shut it down. If you don't agree with it, you don't want to hear it. And you don't want to hear it, you make sure somebody doesn't say it. And if somebody is gonna come say it, then you come make 'em pay a price for saying it. ...
"Isn't it interesting the left fears words more than anything else? They fear words, they fear the U.S. military. Here you have Saddam Hussein – 300,000 to a million people dead and buried in mass graves, rape rooms, torture – that doesn't bother them at all. But what we say about cleaning that situation up scares the ever-living daylights out of them. ... They know they're losing. They know they're in the minority."
She's on H&C tonight. Malkin on OReilly also. A 2fer of conservative babes.
More liberal "tolerance" on display... /sarcasm
There was fun with this story today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396648/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396596/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396518/posts
I'm sick of these liberals who always clamor for free speech unless it's a conservative trying to speak.
Last week we saw Bill Kristol speak at DeSales University. He had been recently "pied" at another college for trying to speak.
Umm, don't we have rules about Ann Coulter posts?
what was Nick Coleman doing there???
"Vietnam Vets = Baby Killers" but "Abortionists = Pro Choice"
Life as a liberal must totally suck.
Brown Shirts! They're just a bunch of Brown Shirts. Their actions are no different than those Nazi thugs.
I can see the scumbag being fined by the University, and definitely being made to leave the evnt for disrupting.
But arrested? I dunno...That can cut two ways.
Nice .gif
And nice gams.
The future of the Democrat party. I love it!
But arrested? I dunno...That can cut two ways.
Read the story. It plainly says that he was arrested for RESISTING the nice officers when they asked him to leave.
When it's time to go and the officers tell you it's time to leave and you don't leave....you open yourself up for further action.
The "radicals" don't care if they turn people off. They are enacting a fantasy in which they are the heroes of the downtrodden. In this fantasy, everyone present has a role to play - the speaker, the administration, the police, and the protesters - all have their assigned roles. It's a role playing game that makes them feel important.
... so ....classy..
Are the free speech advocates paying attention here? What do those liberals have to say about such behavior? More and more, I think some commentators are correct: Liberals have nothing else to fall back upon. Facts fail them, logic fails them and alleged common sense fails them. I suspect that, in the future, political debate with liberals will require megaphones and tomatoes! :)
Why, that it represents the heart and soul of America, of course.
Note to the Dems: My heart and soul don't reside in a sewer.
And BTW, if it was just about a bias in favor of heterosexual sex, polyandry and polygamy would be legal, wouldn't they?
Ann should have told him: "The personal acts between you and your mother are not the subject of this Q&A period!"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.