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Posted on 05/12/2011 9:53:32 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
NEWSCORE - A mob of angry protesters chased a would-be flag burner at Louisiana State University (LSU) off campus Wednesday to chants of "USA, USA."
Graduate communications student Benjamin Haas had earlier been given permission by the school to burn the flag. But because he lacked a local burn permit, he agreed instead to read a statement in an area of the university known as free speech alley.
As Haas read the statement, a crowd around him erupted into cheers and jeers, many shouting "Go to hell, hippie, go to hell."
"You had a lot of people on both sides of the debate getting into a lot of fights," said James Haralson, manager of Tiger TV, the university television station. "The students started yelling obscenities at him. People started throwing bottles at him."
Fox News reports that Haas' actions were in response to the arrest of another student, who was charged with taking and burning the American flag once posted at LSU's War Memorial. That incident came just hours after Osama bin Laden's killing by US Navy SEALS last week.
Haralson, who filmed the protest, said Haas was surrounded by police officers on horseback and as they protest swelled, they moved him to a safer location.
"At that point, all the students began rushing him, continuing to throw trash at him," he said. "He was finally escorted into a cop car in the street and students were banging on the cop car."
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...
It is a curious thing how a kid from Oregon would come to sign up for LSU...and his family pay the out-of-state costs associated with it. My guess is that if he’s lucky and near graduation...no issue. If he has another year or two to go...he might ought to examine another college back over in Oregon. I’m guessing he never consulted the local folks about how this would be perceived.
“Angry mob”? Nope, no bias there! These media scum ... I pray I live to see the day that these one-sided, lying ghouls get their comeuppance and exposed for the liars they are!
Guess I’ll probably have to wait until Judgment Day.
“No. Neither of our flags”
You got that right.
If that's what it takes. I'm up for it.
There were no “fights.” At least 30 cops there and no arrests. People were arguing/debating/yelling at each other. No fists were thrown.
But it’s a nice spin to make it look like an angry “mob.” Remember libs did the same thing with grandparents and lawn chairs showing up for Tea Party rallies.
“The students started yelling obscenities at him. People started throwing bottles at him.”
Ah!.....How refreshing!
He is in Cajun Catholic country. A little different culture than the left-coast.
In our self-defined world of makers and takers, this perpetual student of a useless discredited "profession" just got what he deserved. The world doesn't need another "taker."
If violent public employee and teacher union thugs engage in "pretected" speech, so do those who create a justifiable reaction to them.
This loser might as well apply for welfare now and hope he gets some.
Ha ha and ha!
Now, now! LSU is Cajun country (though lots of rednecks from North Louisiana and the south also attend).
My "Alma Mater" for both BS and PhD.
GEAUX TIGERS!
S-E-C!!! S-E-C!!!! S-E-C!!!
There was an early enclave of Germans in Louisiana’s colonial history, thus the town of Des Allemands in 1721. This guy’s behavior is totally out of synch with Louisiana’s culture though. He is from somewhere else, or is infected with Colin Powell’s vaunted “urban values”.
Hell Yea..
God dang I’m glad to be all Dixie.
Ain’t nowhere like the Deep South
and nope...Nashville where I live now ain’t Dixie anymore.
I don’t know what it is...I hear an accent like mine and I look to see who it is.
At Vandy they woulda given the guy a medal
We all know that Cajuns are just another breed of redneck.
According to Charlie Daniels,
What most people call a redneck
Ain’t nothin’ but a workin’ man
And he makes his livin’
By the sweat of his brow
And the calluses on his hands
I also appreciate what those Mississippi "old boy rednecks" did for the Westboro Baptist Church folks.
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