[bgsugar]

Profanity, simulated sexual acts, custard pies in the face in public forums to prevent the free expression of ideas by conservatives seem to be standard operating procedure by the intolerant liberals who preach tolerance . . . CLASS ACT . . . NOT!

Robert Jensen is the totally anti-American journalism professor who teaches ethics in jouranlism at UT.

They have their plate full in Austin.

[IronJack]

If Ann Coulter spoke with the same level of gutter rhetoric, who would listen to her? If these speeches are supposed to be one-way affairs -- speaker delivering an address -- then what makes anyone think the audience has any right to participate? I know that in this case -- and most others -- Ann has opened the mic up to Q&A from the floor. But that is in the interest of sparking a meaningful discussion, a criterion that was notably lacking in this idiot's comments.

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.

[NonValueAdded]

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. Consider the "fighting words" and "yelling fire" laws. If this kid wanted to make his point, let him rent his own hall, sell his own tickets, and rant his heart out. 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.

[kittymyrib]

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.

[New Orleans Slim]

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).

[Grampa Dave]

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Ajai%20Raj

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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, he’s going to need nitwit lessons to catch up.
moonbat, Ann Coulter, Ajai Raj

[dennisw]

Ajai Raj.... foul mouthed drama queen

[jocon307]

The headline for this piece should have been: SHACKLES RAISE HACKLES

[Flyer]

"If the sole basis for the charge is that he used profanity and used gestures people found offensive, then there's no charge," Jensen said.

Disturbing the peace, which was his intention.

[Deetes]

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 :-)

[Abogado]

This article is another example of the leftist media’s well practiced method of spinning/creating a story out of nothing by intentionally omitting material facts: Like the underage children present (as young as 10) in the audience, the perp's conduct following the speech and the actual disturbance that was present and escalating. See the arrest report posted by another freeper at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396821/posts

[combat_boots]

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?

[layman]

McGreal (Law professor) said ,"Accounts of Raj's actions seem to indicate that his actions (graphic depiction of a sex act) were more of a political nature, not a prurient one."

Spoken like an experienced practitioner of legal beagle gobbly-goop.

[vpintheak]

When Raj took to the microphone, he confronted her about that view, lacing his question with profanity. "They went on to the next question pretty quickly," said Cadik, a junior. "As (Raj) walked out, a lot of protesters walked out with him, they were clapping."

As usual the scum sticks together.

[John Lenin]

He's lucky Ann's bodyguards didn't get to him.

[Flyer]

[DustyMoment]

Ajai Raj, a 19-year-old English major, thought he was exercising his right to free speech when he quizzed conservative pundit Ann Coulter on her definition of marriage after a lecture she delivered at the LBJ Library.

Raj is a liar and he knows it. He is an English major and, obviously, plans to be a super-leftist journalist and knows that the MSM will front for him.

[DustyMoment]

Robert Jensen, a UT journalism professor, said he wasn't at the speech, but he said nothing he has heard or read constitutes disorderly conduct.

Kinda says it all, doesn't it?

[Publius6961]

Wow.
It took two mental midgets to put this article together and still they could not string together two coherent thoughts.

First of all this POS didn't ask a question. He threw out an incendiary characterization for effect.
Second, there is nothing about the concept of free speech that allows profanity vulgarity and plain grossness under any circumstances. There is a clear and distinct difference between having a so called comedian use all the potty words he knows if you have voluntarily paid to hear them. Quite clearly, using the same words as a verbal assault on someone not inviting it enters the realm of
"... following the state's disorderly conduct statute, a Class C misdemeanor that prohibits abusive, profane and vulgar language and obscene gestures in public areas.

But some question if Raj's behavior really violated the law.

There no shortage of idiots, specially on college campuses. There, there are "some" who would not question the wrongness of murder/cannibalism on stage.
What does that prove?

[TheDon]

Robert Jensen, a UT journalism professor, said he wasn't at the speech, but he said nothing he has heard or read constitutes disorderly conduct.

LOL!

[Americanexpat]

I read a statement Raj wrote and it confirms that he is a loud mouth little punk. Someone will kick his teeth out one day and I am sorry I won't be there to see it.

UT must have some low standards if the let this admitted drug dealer stay in school.