How to Silence an Unruly Mob of Campus Radicals

The American Thinker ^ | April 23, 2009 | Jay Schalin

[Scanian]

Last week, an unruly mob of radical protestors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill chased former U.S. congressman and anti-illegal immigration spokesman Tom Tancredo from his speaking engagement. Police were forced to use pepper spray at one point while protestors tried to push their way into an already packed room. Tancredo stopped speaking when protestors outside the building broke a window in the lecture hall (video) .

Last night, it initially appeared that a similar mob might do the same to another former congressman, Virgil Goode, a Virginian who is an outspoken opponent of affirmative action and shares views on immigration to Tancredo. Yet between Goode's persistence, improved security precautions by the university, and some support from members of the audience, this time it was the mob that was silenced.

The night began much as it did in the previous week. Radical groups again circulated flyers urging students to protest, and again met in The Pit (a campus gathering spot) for some pre-speech preparations. They danced and paraded, some wearing giant masks of the three monkeys of speak, hear, and see no evil fame. "Hey, ho, YWC has got to go, they chanted,"

YWC stands for Youth for Western Civilization, a new campus organization that invited both Tancredo and Goode to the Chapel Hill campus. Protestors have publicly characterized the YWF as white supremacists for their conservative views. One of the main organizers stated that the earlier protest's main goal was to stop the YWF from inviting more speakers like Tancredo.

[GOPJ]

How does Homeland Security feel about this? Are they going to put trolls on liberal sites ginning up "violence" fears? "Do you feel like rioting at your college"...

I suspect Janet's not concerned - even when the left is the ONLY side that engages in violence.

[qwertypie]

A stinking basketball factory. Two days ago, one of its black sororities hosted the false rape accuser in the Duke lacrosse case.

[Peet]

Yeah, first conservative leaning group that tries this would be evicted from school. Never happen to the lefties because the schools are in bed with them.

But, of course!

Someone help out my bad memory please? I vaguely remember an incident where some kind of racist(?) posters on campus were found to have been posted by lefties trying to discredit a conservative campus group.

The members of the conservative group were punished (forced apology? "sensitivity" indoctrination class?) anyway.

Help?

Peet (who needs a new memory)

[thethirddegree]

We had the SDS on campus at West Virginia University in the 60’s as well. I never did this, but I hear that some of my fellow ROTC buddies thought it was great fun to beat the $hit out of the SDS guys on a Saturday night.

[Syncro]

Take down the names of the protesters.

Publish them.

Then announce that all of them have just failed their entire course load for the semester.

This is a United States Institution of Higher Learning.

They probably will get extra credit from thier leftist professors for this violent mob action.