Posted on 05/07/2005 8:22:50 AM PDT by bgsugar
Robert Jensen is the totally anti-American journalism professor who teaches ethics in jouranlism at UT.
They have their plate full in Austin.
Reading between the lines, this guy attended the speech because he was a rich, bored punk with nothing better to do, an anger at "the system," and no moral sense to constrain it.
The good old boys that serve as regents at tu hire anti-American leftist twits like Jensen, knowing the sheeple of the state of Texas have to pay his inflated salary. He's Ward Churchill without the fake Indian hairdo.
This is a joke. I'm a bit rusty on my First Amendment law, but I do remember enough to know the campus keystone kops went too far. This kid now has a 1983 claim against the cops because he can argue that the arresting him while engaging in First Amendment activity. So I guess tuition is going up again.
BTW, the campus kops at UT are hired for their terminal stupidity. I remember when I went there, I got ticketed twice for parking in the proper zone for my parking permit (yes, you read that right).
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I am Ajai Raj, and I am a jackass.
What is it about Ann Coulter that drives moonbats out into the broad daylight? Blinded by their moonbattery, they fly into one another again and again until they become even more batty, while fluttering unconscious into the midst of the sane.
Here is Ajai Prasad Raj, liberal hero du jour, who was arrested for his activities at a university gathering where Republican parents believed it was safe to bring young children.
The Smoking Gun has his mug shot and rap sheet, of which the other side seems so proud, that documents his arrest for "abusive, profane, and vulgar language and obscene gesture" at the LBJ Library Auditorium in Austin, Texas.
As Mr. Raj recounts his heroic acts, referring to himself as "a jackass", his fawning fellow moonbats are condeming his arrest as an assault on the First Amendment.
Kevin at WizBang writes
University of Texas student Ajai Raj who was arrested at a campus speech by Ann Coulter. Raj tells his story of juvenile vulgarity at Daily Kos, winning him adoring cheers from the denizens of the Kozosphere for his gross display of asshattery.
At Daily Kos they are breathlessly clinging to every last word of the Raj's "Open Letter to Anyone Who Gives a ..." in which he gloats upon his three minutes of fame in "The Texan", on CBS and in the "Austin-American Statesman". "The general idea is that some jackass made a scene," he writes. "I am Ajai Raj, and I am a jackass."
Oh, most honored one, you are not only Raj, but you are RIGHT!
Right Wing Nuthouse hits the nail on the head with
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME A MOONBAT - This has to be considered one of the most riotously ridiculous, self-aggrandizing, solipsistic, and sophomoric examples of liberal buffoonery in history. ... It really does take a special kind of nitwit to be a moonbat. And judging from this discourse by Mr. Raj, hes going to need nitwit lessons to catch up.
moonbat, Ann Coulter, Ajai Raj
The headline for this piece should have been: SHACKLES RAISE HACKLES
Disturbing the peace, which was his intention.
"But when he disrupts someone else doing those things and exercising their own First Amendment rights, then his is disorderly and got what was coming to him."
Except he didn't disrupt anyone, did he? He walked up to the microphone that was offered for questions. He asked his question (and in the process proved that there is such a thing as a dumb question), then left the microphone for the next guy. Then the campus cops arrested him. There was no disruption - just rudeness.
This sort of crap reminds me of the nonsense the campus lefties pulled back in heyday of PCdom when I attended UT. Didn't like it then, don't like it now.
"Free speech protections are all about prior restraint. That wasn;t the issue here. There is nothing in the First Amendment that exempts a speaker from consequences."
You're not up to date on the case law are you?
As one performer used to say--"This is an audience-participation number: I sing, and you listen."
Earlier reports had him doing a lot of heckling prior to his time at the microphone.
This guy is just another idiot looking for trouble and then is outraged when he finds it.
Yes, there was, and it was done intentionally.
The guy probably had a once of pot in his pocket . Oh that was his last arrest .... Not a good thing in the Great state of Texas :-)
"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--- his wife up the ass?"
This is also a student who had a number of weblogs up that rediculed police and bragged of his drug use. Here are some of the posts here on the guy:
"Yes, there was, and it was done intentionally."
That's a conclusory statement. Look, I remember the brain dead campus cops up at UT. I wouldn't believe a UT campus cop any further than I could throw him or her. We are talking about losers who couldn't get a real police job. Come to think of it, maybe the heckler should apply for a position.
Indeed it is. I really doubt the kid was actually interested in Ann's opinion of anal sex in heterosexual marriage.
If I recall correctly, he wasn't arrested for his 'speech' per se, he was arrested when he refused to leave after being asked to leave.
I believe this article is misleading on that point.
Before the thread was pulled yesterday, Raj posted. I read it. He's not just liberal, but one of the loons.
IIRC, there were children in the audience. His rights of free speech serve children's public interest, let alone any adults who may have been truly offended?
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