Posted on 09/23/2011 12:12:06 PM PDT by Baladas
An Orange County jury has reached a verdict in the Irvine 11 case of Muslim students accused of conspiring and disrupting a February 2010 speech by the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
The case garnered national attention over free-speech rights and centered on conflicting views of who was being censored. Prosecutors argued that Ambassador Michael Oren was "shut down" when his speech was interrupted by students who took turns shouting preplanned phrases in a crowded UC Irvine ballroom.
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18 months later they don’t care. They got what they wanted.
What should have happened was the first disruptor should have been beaten unconscious and drug to the sidewalk by his feet. There would have been no second disruption and the talk would have proceeded.
And yes, Muslims should have, and would have, had one of their speakers been disrupted, which is why nobody does it.
I think it’s about time. Leftists and radicals of all types, often with the complicity and encouragement of spineless college administrators, are shutting down speeches, most often of conservative speakers.
It is about time that the authorities intervened to insure that our college campuses are not just mouthing the words “free speech”, but are actively protecting speech from those who would deny it. I hope the judge in this case levels strong enough sentences to rattle the teeth of those who use “hate-filled censorship” to attack their enemies.
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