Posted on 06/14/2005 9:30:07 PM PDT by absalom01
Graduation protest overstepped boundsTHE protesters who disrupted the graduation ceremonies at Santa Monica College on Tuesday had every right to voice their displeasure with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was delivering the commencement speech.But that doesn't mean it was morally right to ruin the special day of 600 graduates. In their zeal to humiliate the governor by shouting down his every word during the speech, protesters effectively disrespected the entire graduating class of the community college.
Schwarzenegger, an alum of the college, was speaking not about the political policies that have his detractors steaming. He was speaking - or trying to - about his experience as a student 30 years ago, a story that would no doubt have been meaningful to a good many of the college's students who also are immigrants.
This was no doubt a big day for the students who were receiving two-year degrees. It was a shame that what should have been a memorable and emotional day turned into a political spectacle that overstepped the boundaries of civil discourse.
From the Associated Press:
Governor dismisses protest at Santa Monica college
- By The Associated Press
Thursday, June 16, 2005
(06-16) 18:58 PDT SACRAMENTO, (AP) --
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, responding publicly for the first time to the protesters who heckled him at a commencement speech, said he believes most students were attentive and appreciated his words.
Schwarzenegger dismissed the jeers and catcalls he endured during his speech Tuesday to about 600 graduates at Santa Monica College, telling Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly that the protesters were inspired by unions who oppose his November special election.
"It was very clear that there was a difference between the students who very much appreciated my speech, and they were sitting there and giving me a standing ovation, and then 100 people in the background, all the way up to the right of the bleachers. They were organized by the public employees' union," Schwarzenegger said Thursday on O'Reilly's show.
"So these were all union people that were organizing this demonstration," he said. "It is not the ordinary people out there. It was not the students that were protesting. The students had great respect and they enjoyed my speech."
That's what Bill O'Reilly and Ahnold said on the Factor. The unions brought in their thugs and ANSWER was another thugfactory. At least Arnold recognized that.
Sorry folks, Arnold was just trying to be nice to his old alma mater when he said that. Once again, the Liberal Science dept. Instructors had been working overtime for weeks to get as many of their indoctrinees (students) as possible involved in this protest, and a significant number were students. The rest were, as stated, a.n.s.w.e.r. and the unions.
They already do so with impunity anyway. And with the unionized teachers and admin., nobody ever gets fired. It's a full-employment program for every loser whacko with a teaching certificate and license to indoctrinate entire generations into the leftist-homo worldview. Any parent who is aware of what is happening who still sends his children to government schools is part of the problem, and stands guilty of helping to propagate a lost generation.
As a former teacher I must say that most textbooks are not worth the money that they cost.
They don't want to lose their change to indoctrine middle-class kids. They know that these are the future tax-payers. A private school education might cause them to vote down bond proposals.
I'm sure you're right. The proof is in what our kids don't know after they graduate.
That was some extraordinarily bad writing.
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