Posted on 04/22/2009 12:08:52 PM PDT by bs9021
Censorship Via Mob Rule
by: Bethany Stotts, April 22, 2009
“We are all immigrants” “Shut it down. No racists in our town.” “Sexist, racist, anti-gay, right-wing bigot go away.”
These are just of a few of the slogans and signs which greeted former Congressman Tom Tancredo (R) at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill campus on April 14. Student protesters gathered within the room where Tancredo was scheduled to talk, spilling outside the room and congregating outside the building.
After campus police removed two girls holding a sign that read “No dialogue with hate,” Tancredo began his speech. “The DREAM Act with which I am familiar, certainly the one that we’ve tried, that has been tried in Congress, is one that is designed simply to remove the federal obstacle that is there that would prevent most states, all states actually, from moving ahead unilaterally with their own version of …providing in-state tuition for people who are not presently legally in the United States,” he said.
Tancredo’s comments ended abruptly a few moments later when another couple of female students brought a banner stating “No One Is Illegal” to the front of the room, raising the sign in front of the speaker’s face.
Seconds later, an agitator outside broke in a glass window and Tancredo fled the building.
The protest at UNC-Chapel Hill bore many of the same hallmarks as a smaller demonstration at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst this March. There, the College Republicans chapter had invited Don Feder to speak about hate crimes legislation. UMass Amherst students held signs reading “abolish hate” and “hate speech leads to hate crimes” and laughed when Feder was called an “intellectual.” ...
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The brownshirts did the same thing.
See what good little fascists our public school teachers are pumping out.
The party of tolerance and understanding strikes again PING!
Whenever you see the word “democratic” in an organization’s name, you can be almost certain they do NOT support deomcratic principles.
If I was Tom I’d take in a rifle with a laser sight on it. When they acted up I’d put the little red spot on them and say “Are you going to act civilized now?
The law enforcement personnel were busy arresting reporters who wanted to interview katy couric.
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