Posted on 05/04/2005 7:33:16 AM PDT by Flightdeck
Arrest made at Coulter speech
Student arrested, charged with disorderly conduct after offensive question
By Yashoda Sampath
Incessant heckling and shouting culminated in an arrest Tuesday night during a speech by Ann Coulter, an extreme right-wing pundit, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Shouts became so pervasive during the question-and-answer session that Coulter informed the organizers she would no longer take questions if the hecklers were not silenced. For a time, the shouts were considerably lessened, until the issue of gay marriage was broached.
Coulter said she supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman on the basis that a good woman civilizes and inspires a man to strive for something better, leading to a question that was met with a stunned silence.
"You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage," said Ajai Raj, an English sophomore. "How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but f--- his wife up the ass?"
UT Police officers approached Raj to arrest him, resulting in a mass exodus of protesters chanting, "Let him go."
"The person had been disruptive the entire event," said Matt Hardigree, former Student Events Center president. "He took the opportunity to say something lewd and offensive and then made masturbatory gestures as he exited."
Hardigree said that Cheryl Wood from the Office of the Dean of Students spoke with some of the protestors before the event, and assorted members of the Distinguished Speakers Committee asked them to sit in the back if they had signs and to leave quietly if they wanted to leave.
According to Jeffrey Stockerwell, a friend of Raj, officers violently seized Raj and illegally searched him after his question.
Police have charged Raj with disorderly conduct, a Class C misdemeanor.
Representatives of the Austin People's Legal Collective were taking statements from everyone at the scene, in case it should be taken to court.
Raj worked at the Texan on a volunteer basis for a brief time in March.
Before the speech began, the International Socialist Organization protested outside of the library, with about 12 people holding up signs with slogans such as "Racist, sexist, anti-gay, right-wing bigot go away" and "Stop the new McCarthyism."
The booing began early into Coulter's speech, when she issued a joke to pro-choice advocates.
"I wonder why those 'I Heart Partial-Birth Abortion' T-shirts aren't selling better," she said, followed by a combination of cheers and jeers.
Coulter went on to decry the conservative media bias she said liberals complain of, and she challenged the undemocratic actions of liberals with respect to Iraq and to the judiciary.
"They're always trying to act like they're oppressed," she said. "So let's do it. Let's oppress them."
One student asked Coulter why universities and institutions place microphones in front of Coulter when she advocates terrorism against liberals, prompting Coulter to mention the strength of her book sales. Coulter has had four New York Times best sellers.
The $30,000 event was co-sponsored by the Texas Union Student Events Center and Student Endowed Centennial Lectureship Committee.
"Why is it they look homeless and stink?"I noticed that phenomena while in college in the 80's.Duds,malcontents,anti-social,....and that was the college liberals.The hardcore(fulltime libs/radicals)were bums.They weren't students,they didn't work,and yes they smelled.Very marginal people...useful idiots.
Raj wrote:To make an already abbreviated story even more so, my attorney says he can get the charges dismissed. The law is sticking all kinds of fingers in my assh*le right now, but with a few savvy business deals, I can plow through this sh*t and come out smelling like roses. Ironic, really—to get out of this drug charge, I’m forced to arrange bigger drug deals than I ever intended to. C’est la vie, non?
Maybe a good idea to contact the Austin DA as well as UT Austin.
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/district_attorney/default.asp
Ronald Earle, District
Phone: (512) 854-9400
Fax: (512) 854-9695
509 W.11th St
Austin, TX 78701
[[He handed the bag to me and we went on our way -- four longhaired hippies who had had the good luck to run into the dumbest cop in the most backwards state in our union.]]
Finn,
I just read the article to the link that you posted. This rotten little dope smoking, maggot infested, scrougy hippy wannabe is the most intolerant liberal in the world. Read the whole article people and you will feel his hate for authority, middle America, and the rule of law.
http://www.partycampus.com/article.php?id=177
Extreme editorial comment in a supposed straight news story.
It is auniversity. It is in Berkley East (Austin).
Don't be mean.
Hey! It's one of the Gin Blossom's!
I read his story of his pot arrest and all I can say is I wonder if his parents read it? His soul is in a very dark place and hypocrisy seems to be his creed.
Speaking of the maturity of Ann's enemies, who was that extreme left wing (heh,heh) MSNBC talking head who highlighted his show by mutilating an Ann Coulter action figure? I can't remember his name. Wasn't Chrissy Matthews but one of the other resident leftist wackjobs.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION
Anti-American, anti-capitalist Communist organization
Present on many American campuses
Opposes the Patriot Act and the War on Terror
Evoking the Communist tradition of Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin, the Chicago-based International Socialist Organization (ISO) aspires to “organize activists in workplaces and communities and on campuses in order to mobilize opposition to all forms of oppression and exploitation.” With capitalism its avowed enemy, the ISO places the blame for the world’s social ills on America, and more specifically the Republican Party, calling President Bush the “bigot-in-chief,” and describing the “dynasty” of the Bush family as a “virus.”
Founded in 1977, the ISO traces its intellectual antecedents to Trotskyism, and to a rejection of Shachtmanism, so named after Max Shachtman, the onetime head of the Socialist Workers Party; Shachtman and his followers generally supported the hard-line Cold War-era stance against Communist expansionism, which it correctly recognized as a more violent and vile exploitation of people than anything capitalism has yet designed. Still, the ISO does reject the state-sponsored Communism found in China, Cuba, and the old USSR, on the grounds that those states merely create structures to alienate workers from their labor and the sources of capital in the same way that the Western democracies do.
The ISO claims the need for permanent workers’ revolutions on an ongoing basis, in the tradition of Trotsky and his denunciation of the Stalinist state. The ISO maintains an educational program calling for socialist workers revolutions at a variety of venues, including work places and college campuses. It claims that all the evils of the world, including poverty, environmental issues, war, and famine, are the direct result of capitalism.
Intellectually, the ISO bases its contentions on analyses of Eastern-bloc economies that critiqued the state-sponsored capital systems of those countries and called for a strenuous rejection of the state model; maintained that Western prosperity in the Cold War era was largely maintained only by massive defense spending; and accepted the theory of deflected permanent revolution to account for workers’ failures to take over Third World countries (fundamentally, an absence of an intelligentsia capable of sustaining the bourgeoisie democratic stage of revolution).
The ISO website maintains links to the websites of numerous socialist groups in France, Australia, and Ireland. The organization's announced plan of action is decidedly international in scope. In 2000, the ISO attracted a large number of new members when it by worked for the presidential campaign of the Green Party’s Ralph Nader. The following year, a small group of ISO members broke away from the group and created a new organization called Left Turn. Currently, the ISO claims a membership of approximately 1,000 and publishes the weekly newspaper Socialist Worker, whose articles condemn capitalism and imperialism, and whose editorials call for “militant workers” to form a “revolutionary socialist party.” It also publishes the journal Socialist Review. In addition to its national office in Chicago, the ISO maintains six regional branches.
Among the ISO's official policies are a rejection of U.S. intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, an effort to inspire anti-war sentiment on college campuses (particularly by creating fears of a renewed draft), pushing for greater rights for illegal immigrants and completely open borders, and the condemnation of capital punishment.
Despite an ostensibly bold “Who We Are” link, the ISO website discloses no names of the group’s leadership. The links to the regional leadership web addresses reveal only a list of aliases and non-entities.
The ISO is a member organization of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition. It disparages the Patriot Act and other government efforts to strengthen national security as malicious assaults on civil liberties.
The ISO views terrorism against U.S. targets and those of America’s allies (most notably Israel) as the desperate actions of people who have been treated unjustly for too long by those nations. Regarding the 9/11 hijackers and Palestinian suicide bombers, for instance, the ISO asserts, “They weren’t born wanting to become suicide bombers. But their lifetimes of humiliation . . . made them open to terrorism as a means to avenge their oppression.”
The ISO endorsed the 2002 Market Workers Justice Campaign of the activist coalition Communities in Solidarity with Immigrant Workers. This campaign called for increased wages and benefits for Korean and Latino immigrant workers, including those living illegally in the United States.
The ISO was also a signatory to a February 20, 2002 document, composed by the radical group Refuse & Resist, condemning military tribunals and the detention of immigrants apprehended in connection with post-9/11 terrorism investigations. Titled “National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab and South Asian Immigrants,” the document read, in part, “[T]hey [the U.S. government] are coming for the Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrants. Based on their racial profile, over 1500 have been rounded up and the government refuses to say who they are, where they are jailed and what the charges are!!! Already, a Pakistani man has died in custody. Who will be next? The recent ‘disappearances,’ indefinite detention, the round-ups, the secret military tribunals, the denial of legal representation, evidence kept a secret from the accused, the denial of any due process for Arab, Muslim, South Asians and others, have chilling similarities to a police state. We will not allow our grief for the tragedy of September 11 to be used to justify this new repression. We are clear that being an immigrant is not a crime; Muslims, Arabs and South Asians are not terrorists.”
Ajai Raj getting arrested and showing contempt for the police:
http://www.partycampus.com/article.php?id=231
Doing drugs:
http://www.partycampus.com/article.php?id=154
Mooching food of friends??
http://www.partycampus.com/article.php?id=156
Writing for the Daily Texan (I'm sure they are proud)
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2005/03/11/University/Ag.Encourages.Open.Records-892161.shtml
Member of the Liberal Arts Honors Program (Who'da thunk it?)
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/lahonors/scholarships/winners/
A perfect example of liberalism in America.
BITS
Just last August, they were trying to crucify Dick Cheney for cussing on the Senate floor. Nope, no hypocrisy there.
To the socialist this was a pejorative question because of the key word "wife".
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Its just about the only place in Texas where one still sees Clinton/Gore/Kerry bumber stickers...loosers!
Thanks for that blog link. I wasted some time posting on it.
http://www.partycampus.com/article.php?id=231
Students were the only ones allowed to buy tickets, but she had some extra ones and her parents got to go. I had to take care of my wife, as she had a medical test done yesterday.
Does anyone here remember in the 60's the line..."The commies are gonna take over without ever having to fire a shot"? Lib professors and socialist/communist activists have been busy since "the Wall" was brought down. They are very much like a cancer on America. My hat is off to Ann For standing up to and making fun of these soul-less, anti-American asses.
Sure they are.....the foundation, for principles, are laid in the home.
This village idiot is the poster boy of the LEFT!!!
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