Posted on 10/16/2006 10:15:31 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
Please ping.
BUMP! (...and *PING*!)
One could only hope, but it's hard to pin a snake as they slither off into the bushes.
Politican correctness is going to be the death of this nation.
The Univision coverage she is talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N41eXtVK7hA
Ms Garcia sounds like some freepers here.
Wow. Kudos to Gilchrist for keeping his cool. No doubt Garcia and company are about to get caught up in a slander and defamation lawsuit that they will never forget. Sucks to be her, however well deserved her civil penalties will be.
I hope Gilchrist meant what he said and not just an idle threat. She (and her ilk) needs to learn how the real world works..... the hard way.
I certainly hope so. And I hope tht shey understands that in Mexico they just shoot people. It isn't Americans or Minutemen to be exact that are murdering Mexican women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, for instance. Minutemen have not tortured or murdered anyone. She obviously doesn't understand the value of America.
Give the little reconquista a copy of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago and the Gadsen Purchase.
Amy Goodman is a Communist. If she's not self admitted, even the "unbiased" press thinks so.
This should have had a "blowing chunks barf alert".
Democracy Now is a Soros Funded organization, as well.
I couldn't believe the audacity of this woman and how she reminded me of the early Communist and National Socialist tactics during the initial infections of those blights on history.
Gilchrist would be better off trying to get Columbia defunded for lack of academic freedom and freedom of speech by way of the feds. There are federal laws to uphold if you take their dime.
Do you know why Soros is in the US? It's because Soros is a wanted man all over Asia, and is not even safe in the UK. There is a bounty out on him for currency rape!
Everyone is in favor of free speech that they agree with.
Every other kind of speech, according to Miss Ivy League Lady, is racism, immigrant bashing, etc. Therefore they have appointed themselves judges of what the peons among us should or should not hear.
As the Minutemen start to connect with more and more people, they will get more desperate and you'll see a lot more of stuff like this me thinks.
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Chicano Caucus political chair Karina Garcia, who reads a statement claiming that the adminstration is treating "racist, fascist, armed, vigilante" Minutemen as victims.
Karina Garcia, CC '07 and Chicano Caucus political chair, said Monday that she and the other protesters had not intended to stop Gilchrist from speaking when they unfurled a pair of banners onstage, but she defended their actions. "We are sure that if the Ku Klux Klan came to campus, African Americans would be there to protest," Garcia said.
Having wreaked havoc onstage, the students unrolled a banner that read, in both Arabic and English, “No one is ever illegal.” As security guards closed the curtains and began escorting people from the auditorium, the students jumped from the stage, pumping their fists, chanting victoriously, “Si se pudo, si se pudo,” Spanish for “Yes we could!”
The protest was organized by the Chicano Caucus, the university’s African-American student association, and the International Socialists. But notice that the Chicano Caucus took no responsibility for the ruckus.
Here’s what one junior, Ryan Fukomori, had to say about Gilchrist:
(He) “had no right to be able to speak here.”
"We didn't touch anyone," Karina Garcia, a senior and member of the university's Chicano Caucus," told the Daily News. "When they brought this speaker, this was an attack on our community and our families. We simply expressed our right to freedom of speech."
After the students climbed onstage, overturning tables and chairs and causing mayhem, President Lee Bollinger called the students' disruption of the event "one of the most serious breaches of academic faith that can occur at a university."
Three students who claimed responsibility for taking the stage and interrupting the speech by the border-patrol group known as the Minutemen held a press conference yesterday on Broadway outside the university. One of the students, Karina Garcia, the political chairwoman of the Chicano Caucus, said that she and her fellow protesters were the victims of a "massive campaign of vilification and demonization."
Flanked by members of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism group and the National Lawyers Guild, which have rallied to the student protesters' cause, Ms. Garcia said,"We wanted the whole world to know that the Minutemen are racists who terrorize defenseless immigrant families" and that the protesters set out to "sabotage them."
Adhemir Romero, CC '07 and president of the Chicano Caucus, issued a statement on behalf of the executive board Wednesday night expressing regret that the protesters had silenced Gilchrist. But Karina Garcia, CC '07 and the group's political chair, was seen on the stage and quoted in a statement by the ANSWER Coalition, an anti-war group that supports immigrant rights.
"Let tonight be a model for others around the country. And let it be a lesson to the Minutemen: wherever they go, they will be confronted," Garcia told ANSWER. "We have an obligation to the millions of immigrants in this country who are being demonized and targeted by the Minutemen, KKK, and other racists."
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