“LEFTIST ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. by Linda Gorman.
Colorado Daily, Mar. 28, 2000.
The peculiar mix of doublespeak and intransigent intolerance that characterizes the Left was on full display in three separate incidents last week.
Before Charlton Heston’s March 21 speech at CU-Boulder, the Colorado Daily reported that 2nd Amendment defenders protested loudly but peacefully outside Macky auditorium until “a large contingent of gun-control advocates arrived.”[i] Tensions rose. Mr. Robert Howell “threw a punch at another man,” scuffled briefly, and was wrestled to the ground by police officers. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported that Mr. Howell is vice-president of the Boulder chapter of the Bell Campaign.[ii] Charitably speaking, the Bell Campaign consists of utopian dreamers who would consider even complete gun prohibition a “reasonable” restriction, and who believe that when guns are outlawed not even criminals will have guns. Its accuracy can be gauged from its web page where, as of this writing, it calls Boulder “a suburb of Denver.”[iii]
In an Orwellian twist worthy of President Clinton, Boulder chapter’s president, Sam Cole, told The Denver Rocky Mountain News that the group was going to adopt new guidelines for protests because “Our protesters and members are a very peaceful group of individuals that believe in nonviolence, and we have a zero tolerance for violence at demonstrations.” Given that new guidelines are evidently needed to rule out assault and battery, one wonders what the old ones were.”